Building Scholarly Networks: Digital Humanities Commons

Program Description

One of the key challenges facing digital scholars—especially those at small colleges without a digital humanities center—is isolation. In this seminar, panelists will discuss the challenges of starting a digital project at a small college and finding collaborators in the digital humanities Community. Speakers will include Dr. Paul Schacht (SUNY-Geneseo), who faces the challenge of building a scholarly network as part of the Digital Thoreau project. Dr. Shacht will be joined by two founding board members from DHCommons (Digital Humanities Commons), an initiative of centerNet. DHCommons, which launched in January 2012, is an online hub focused on matching digital humanities projects seeking assistance with scholars interested in project collaboration. This hub responds to a pressing and demonstrable need for a project-collaborator matching service that will allow scholars interested in digital humanities to enter the field by joining an existing project as well as make existing projects more sustainable by drawing in new, well-matched participants. Panelists will include:

• Paul Schacht, Professor and Chair of English, SUNY-Geneseo and winner of a NITLE Community Contribution Award for “English Majors Practicing Criticism: A Digital Approach,”
• Quinn Dombrowski, manager for Scholarly Technology, University of Chicago and DHCommons Board Member
• Christopher Dickman, Ph.D. candidate in English Rhetoric and Composition at Saint Louis University and DHCommons Board Member

Registration

Please register online by Thursday, February 2. Registration is free, however space is limited.

Questions

For more information about this event, please contact Rebecca Davis at rdavis@nitle.org.