Digital Scholarship

Digital scholarship can be defined as the use of technology to digitize and present academic source materials for teaching, research, and outreach.  The term “scholarship” in this usage blurs the boundaries between science and the humanities, as well as teaching and research, since each of these endeavors is founded on a common need to work with well organized collections of primary and secondary content.

At ATS, we support the development of digital collections in a variety of media as well as the visualization and presentation of these media in a variety of contexts, from classroom teaching and personal research to off-campus publishing and presentation.  If you have any need or desire to work with digital materials in your role as student , teacher,  or researcher, please contact us to discuss your ideas.

Below you will find a selection of projects which we currently support.

Projects

Carlisle History Project (Prof. Cordova, American Studies)

http://carlislehistory.dickinson.edu

Professor Cordova’s students created this collaborative  blog with narratives, podcasts and video clips of people and places around Carlisle, on a variety of topics.  A model for both service learning and ethnographically grounded courses. 

A House Divided (Prof. Pinsker, History)

http://itech.dickinson.edu/hd

Currently under development, this is a comprehensive archive of primary source documents, timeline entries, biographical profiles, and images about the people and circumstances that led to the outbreak of the American Civil War.  Designed to be a resource for primary and secondary school teachers.

Archaeology (Prof. Maggidis, Classics)

http://icon.dickinson.edu/archeology

A searchable database of visual and textual material associated with Professor Maggidis’s Dickinson Archaeology Program.