What is digital scholarship?
“Digital scholarship, broadly defined, uses digital content and tools to pursue research and interpretation with the goal of furthering knowledge. While this work can take many forms, one common strand is that it makes use of the powers of computing to do things that may not have been possible otherwise. From intensive analysis of data sets, to the collaborative sharing of resources or projects across networks, to experiments in artificial intelligence, digital scholarship takes advantage of the speed, scale and reach that computers bring to information technologies–both within and across traditional disciplinary boundaries.”
What We Support
The DSC supports digital tools that enable the analysis and creation of information. This includes: data analysis and visualization, audio recording and editing, text analysis, GIS, basic coding, knowledge organization, and digital collections.
DSC Mission
The Digital Scholarship Center at SUNY New Paltz is an interdisciplinary, collaborative space where students, faculty, and staff answer new research questions using digital scholarship methods and digital tools.
Goals
- Provide a computing space that is open to everyone on campus.
- Support interdisciplinary and collaborative digital scholarship projects.
- Provide training in digital scholarship tools and methods.
- Provide pedagogical guidance for faculty incorporating digital scholarship in their courses.
- Engage a community of digital scholarship students, faculty, and researchers.
DSC Board
Brett Barry, Lecturer, DMJ
Brett teaches courses in audio production, podcasting, TV studio production, and digital storytelling. He is the owner of Silver Hollow Audio, a Catskills-based production studio and home to the award-winning regional podcast, Kaatscast.
Crystal Donkor, Assistant Professor, English
Andy Evans, Associate Professor, History
Andy is a historian of modern Germany with a focus on the history of war and society. A member of the editorial team at the German Studies Collaboratory website, he is interested in incorporating digital tools into his teaching of modern European history.
Kristine Harris, Associate Professor, Department of History & Asian Studies Program
Kristine is a historian of modern China with a research focus on film, media, visual culture, and gender studies. She is interested in digital tools that facilitate research and teaching relating to historical narratives and artifacts, film, and visual culture.
Joshua Korenblat, Assistant Professor of Graphic Design
Joshua teaches courses about working with complex information to tell visual and verbal stories. Joshua is a Reviews Editor at Design and Culture. Earlier in his career, Joshua worked at National Geographic Magazine and Science News Magazine. Joshua is a cofounder and Art Director-At-Large at Graphicacy, a data visualization firm in Washington, DC.
Kristy Lee, Interim Dean, Sojourner Truth Library
Adrianna Martinez, Senior Assistant Librarian, Sojourner Truth Library
Chrissy O’Grady, Research & Education Librarian and Instruction Program Coordinator, Sojourner Truth Library
Chrissy has a background in digitization services, special collections/archives, digital history, and genealogy. She has built digital history projects and has co-supervised digital history internships and AYURE/SURE projects at SUNY New Paltz. She has expertise in Zotero and Omeka.net.
Jennifer Rutner, Senior Assistant Librarian, DSC Coordinator, Sojourner Truth Library
Jen Rutner has been working in digital scholarship and libraries for over 20 years. She specializes in social science data analysis and text analysis, and spent significant time studying how scholars use and produce digital information.
Megan Sperry, Assistant Professor, DMJ