Expanding DH Capacity Through Strategic Partnerships at the Claremont Colleges
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Presentation for Director of the Claremont Colleges Digital Research Studio interview. The focus of this talk is how to use strategic partnerships to advance Digital Humanities at the consortium of liberal arts colleges - the Claremont Colleges.
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Expanding DH Capacity Through Strategic Partnerships at the Claremont Colleges
- 2. Expanding DH Capacity Through Strategic Partnerships at the Claremont Colleges Ashley R. Sanders, Ph.D.
- 3. Presentation Prompt Please explain how you’ll leverage the Mellon DH award to build an exciting, innovative, and sustainable digital scholarship program at the Claremont Colleges. Articulate your vision for outcomes deriving from the award and include your ideas on research, teaching, and learning; physical facilities; and collaborations both at Claremont and within the broader DH community.
- 4. Overview ❑ Mission & Vision ❑ Community ❑ Infrastructure ❑ Learning ❑ Teaching ❑ Research ❑ Communication and Outreach ❑ Sustainability
- 5. “To create a sustained and integrated system of support, training, and research implementation that will not simply ‘bring DH to Claremont,’ but will make the consortium a model community of learning where digital humanities methods and tools inform the work of humanities scholars and students at all levels.” – Mellon Grant Proposal DH@CC Mission
- 6. DH@CC Grant Initiatives: What does this grant do? 1. Spring Symposia 2. DH Summer Institutes 3. Course Development Grants 4. Digital Research Studio
- 7. • Open to all • Collaborative • Learning together • Shared values • Unafraid to try new things • Failures are opportunities to learn and grow • Highest standards in research, pedagogy and scholarship Vision for the DH@CC Community
- 8. Community
- 10. Learning
- 11. Teaching
- 12. Research
- 13. Communication & Outreach • Flyers • Email • Monthly Newsletter • Twitter • Facebook • Instagram • Claremont Colleges Calendar
- 14. Sustainability
Editor's Notes
- Open to all Collaborative Learns together Shared values: Openness We are all learners and teachers Humanization of all people, disciplines, tools, and our questions Unafraid to try new things Recognizes failure as opportunity to learn and grow Focus on high standards in our research, pedagogy and scholarship
- Faculty & students Librarians & staff Administrators IT & Ed Tech specialists CTL, Hive, and other intercollegiate and campus organizations Wider Community – such as DH So Cal
- “quality digital humanities work necessitates access to a complex infrastructure “stack”, including networking, systems, data storage, and management, computing infrastructure, a multiplicity of hardware and software devices and tools, publication and display systems, and the tools and modalities for sharing with and connecting to the many people involved in a given body of work.” Where we currently are: “Staff in place to manage infrastructure for other institutional purposes are often asked and willing to work with DH scholars to spin up sites or servers, host data, consult on starting to manage data, and work with scholars to find and install hardware and software for their needs. But these efforts are not usually ready and waiting, nor are the pieces thoughtfully integrated, for the purposes of DH work.” Where we need to go: Institutional research technology ecosystem that is conscientiously planned and proactive. It can scale incrementally, rather than having to pull enough shared interest and resources together to ‘make the case’ for a capital investment in network or server hardware and cobble together the expertise to administer it. .. Policies and best practices around hosting, storage, network use and how to plan for infrastructure needs through the full project life-cycle. … to support collaboration, platforms are in place with security policies and best practices, for collaborative file sharing, project management, shared code and media repositories, and secure storage solutions for data which falls under specific ethical or privacy legislation.” Physical spaces: Meeting rooms Workstations w/ software Data storage repositories Data management and curation tools Remote meeting setups Requires people
- Intro to DH Short Course – 1/year DH Summer Institute Professional Learning Communities Community Programming – bringing in speakers from DHSoCal and potentially beyond
- Undergraduates (“scholars-in-training”): Paths to involvement The digitally infused courses supported by Course Development grants aren’t enough, on their own, to prepare students for the Studio Clinics Therefore, we need to offer an intensive DH course, similar to the one being taught this semester to build skills that students aren’t developing in their other coursework – teamwork, project management, design process, and DH skills that include both the humanistic critical thinking and facility with digital tools and programming Propose that the next round of course development grants focus on courses that promise to develop these kinds of skills to create the pipeline envisioned Offer DH 150 in the fall and up to 4 Clinics in the spring. Another possibility would be to offer both simultaneously Grad students: As teachers and students – incorporated into the classes/clinics as TAs/Ras Continuing to fold CGU into all of our activities, events, and offerings.
- Clinics to support faculty research Apply for additional grants to support both faculty and student research Collaborations with librarians and ScholComm to facilitate quality research and innovative publication AND my own research – modeling as well as facilitating and consulting Special Collections Museums and archives on campus Support for administrators in evaluating digital scholarship – workshop in the spring and willingness to lead either a task force or a professional development community to address this topic. Edward Ayers: “generative scholarship”: “a new form of inquiry and practice that ‘generates new questions, new evidence, new conclusions, and new audiences as it is used.”
- From Meredith: Yesterday when I was working on some social media content, I realized that none of the DTS workshops had been posted on our Facebook page. I posted them all with descriptions and photos, and since then, three of the registration-based workshops have filled up completely, we’ve had people start subscribing to our events, and we’ve gotten 15 new likes! I just thought I would share this good news :) I’ve updated the times for the Zotero Drop In hours based on Jessica’s email, and hopefully engagement will continue to increase.
- New funding sources – NEH, nhprc (National Historical Publications and Records) & IMLS, along with state councils all provide funding, but so do Sloan (ScholComm – filtering and curating online scholarly materials), Mellon, and Anenberg. Looking to build buy-in from the colleges to begin to take on more of the financial responsibility for this program, spaces, and people, in the same way they have for the CTL.