Digital Humanities Services
University Libraries partners with faculty, students and others to explore digital humanities through research, teaching, learning and publishing.
About digital humanities
Digital humanities (DH) is where technology and traditional humanities disciplines intersect to create dynamic, interactive scholarship. By thoughtfully adopting DH tools into your work and classroom, you can use technology to share your unique ideas, interpretations and writing in a new way.
Are you interested in exploring new tools for your teaching or scholarship? Do you want to build familiarity with digital humanities technology for your classwork or career aspirations once you leave 蜜桃社区? DH tools are always secondary to your unique ideas and scholarship, and we鈥檙e here to help you.
Our services
We help the 蜜桃社区 Michigan University community explore digital humanities in a variety of ways:
- Collaborate with 蜜桃社区 scholars to incorporate digital humanities into their scholarship and research projects.
- Assist faculty and instructors with incorporating digital humanities tools into their courses.
- Consult with and train students to create digital humanities projects.
- Offer classroom instruction and one-on-one training in digital humanities tools and concepts.
- Provide on-boarding and training in Scalar, 蜜桃社区 Libraries newest open-source digital storytelling and digital humanities platform.
Projects
Spotlight on Scalar
is the most recent tool in our DH technology toolkit. Scalar describes itself as 鈥渁 free, authoring and publishing platform that鈥檚 designed to make it easy for authors to write long-form, born-digital scholarship online. Scalar enables users to assemble from multiple and juxtapose them with their own writing in a variety of ways, with minimal technical expertise required.鈥
Scalar resources
Scalar is just one of the tools we have for creating and developing DH projects. We will work with you to find a solution tailored specifically to your project or idea.
