General registration is now open for 'Planning a Digital Scholarship Center: A CNI-ARL Workshop,' to be held May 17–18, 2016, in Arlington, Virginia.
An increasing number of institutions are planning programs and spaces they call digital scholarship centers, scholars' labs, research commons, or similar names. Often these centers are located in and administered by academic libraries, in contrast to faculty-run institutes. While some centers focus on digital humanities, many work with a broader range of disciplines, supporting e-science and digital research in the social sciences. During the planning and early implementation process for a center, there are many decisions to be made about the mission, programs, partnerships, staffing, technologies, as well as the physical space of the center.
This workshop will assist institutions in the process of planning digital scholarship centers, not by offering one solution but by presenting a variety of models that will help institutions make informed choices that address institutional needs and priorities. The event will include a combination of presentations by invited speakers, group discussions, and hands-on exercises.
This workshop will assist those institutions in the planning stages or early implementation stages of a digital scholarship center. Institutions are encouraged to register teams, but individual registrants are also welcome. The target audience includes deans/directors and associate directors of libraries, scholarly communications librarians, digital humanities professionals or faculty, GIS staff, information technology staff, and faculty engaged in digital scholarship.
The workshop will cover topics such as process of planning a digital scholarship center; funding a center; staffing issues, including types of staff, training, integration with other staff; technologies and physical space; models and types of centers; partnerships for research; partnerships for teaching and learning; dissemination and curation of products of digital scholarship; and lessons learned. A preliminary agenda is available on the workshop website.
Registration is limited to 100 people. A waiting list will be maintained after the limit has been reached. Interested parties may register at https://arl.formstack.com/forms/digital_scholarship_centers_workshop.
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