Crowdsourcing Contributions to DLAx Planning Process September 2016 Below are the contributions provided to the process through the crowdsourcing platform (Crowdicity) that we used to encourage the contribution of ideas via this online forum. Digital Liberal Arts Exchange Challenge Imagine a new, exchangebased approach to supporting digital scholarship that is deeply collaborative, allowing members of a network to share expertise, work together on projects, teach each other new methods, and share what we’ve learned with one another. Below you’ll find a set of ideas for what such an exchange might look like, and some of the challenges and opportunities we would face in launching such an exchange. Please take 15 minutes to read through the ideas within. Vote on them. Comment on them. Add your own thoughts. Our plan is to sift through this material as we construct our plan for launching our exchange. The people designing this exchange meet again in March, so we ask that you contribute by the end of February. What would you like to gain from such an exchange? What might you be able to contribute? Which of the ideas below resonate with you? Which ones seem untenable or worse? What ideas do you have that aren’t yet under consideration? The exchange is intended to meet the needs and interests of the members of the exchange. Tell us what your needs and interests are! Sharing or Exploring Hardware
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Crowdsourcing Contributions to DLAx Planning Process September 2016 Below are the contributions provided to the process through the crowdsourcing platform (Crowdicity) that we used to encourage the contribution of ideas via this online forum.
Digital Liberal Arts Exchange
Challenge
Imagine a new, exchangebased approach to supporting digital scholarship that is deeply
collaborative, allowing members of a network to share expertise, work together on projects,
teach each other new methods, and share what we’ve learned with one another. Below
you’ll find a set of ideas for what such an exchange might look like, and some of the
challenges and opportunities we would face in launching such an exchange.
Please take 15 minutes to read through the ideas within. Vote on them. Comment on them.
Add your own thoughts. Our plan is to sift through this material as we construct our plan for
launching our exchange. The people designing this exchange meet again in March, so we
ask that you contribute by the end of February.
What would you like to gain from such an exchange? What might you be able to
contribute? Which of the ideas below resonate with you? Which ones seem untenable or
worse? What ideas do you have that aren’t yet under consideration?
The exchange is intended to meet the needs and interests of the members of the
exchange. Tell us what your needs and interests are!
Sharing or Exploring Hardware
by Elliot Brandow | 3 weeks ago | in Digital Liberal Arts Exchange Challenge
Would it make sense to consider lending expensive hardware (multitouch table, drones, oculus rift, etc)?
Perhaps lending for a specific exhibit/event, or perhaps lending access (at the lender's location) to explore
before making a local purchase?
DH and Mentored Undergraduate Research:
Developing Models and Best Practices
by St. Olaf College DH | 4 weeks ago | in Digital Liberal Arts Exchange Challenge
The potential for a collaborative approach to inquiry inherent in digital humanities is usually described in
terms of faculty/faculty or faculty/staff partnering. But where do students fit into DH collaboration?
Given the centrality of their teaching mission and the porous boundaries between teaching and
scholarship in faculty work, liberal arts institutions seem to offer an ideal environment for engaging
undergraduates in collaborative DH inquiry. Existing opportunities for mentoring undergraduates as DH
partners include Independent Research registrations, research methods & capstone courses in the
major, dedicated undergraduate research seminars, and summer projects on the model championed by
the Council on Undergraduate Research ( http://www.cur.org/) . DH opens up other possibilities as well,
such as student positions in IT units. Identifying best practices at various colleges for integrating DH
and undergraduate research can help adapt existing models and/or develop new ones, resulting in the
reinforcement of highimpact learning opportunities now and a well prepared cohort of critical DH
practitioners for the future.
Dolores
Use Time Banking to Enable Sharing of Effort
by roymichaeldonald | 2 months ago | in Digital Liberal Arts Exchange Challenge
Use time banking ( http://timebanks.org/ ) as a method for allowing schools to share work without being
burdened with having to use cash.
Introductory, goto resource to help activate the
DH interested
by thealindquist | 2 months ago | in Digital Liberal Arts Exchange Challenge
As voiced in the report (below), an introductory, goto resource to help activate those interested but not
yet actively involved in DH seems like a good idea, if it does not already exist. That way the information
could be kept up centrally, and each institution would only need supplement with locally relevant
information on its own website.
"Each university possessed faculty with a range of expertise. Most digital scholarship was done by
scholars highly active already and used digital scholarship to define themselves professionally. Another
group of faculty were aware of digital methods but unsure of where to begin and how to proceed. This
group of techfriendly faculty was less active, but likely larger than the highly active digital scholars.
Many institutions recognized this potential group of users but lacked the ability to spend the time and
effort to educate faculty on specific methods and tools. In response, many interviewees voiced a desire
for a something along the lines of a standard “toolbox” that they could recommend to interested faculty,
an introductory DH educational site with the basics and best practices, and/or a wiki or website to
collect the various discussions and knowledge already being passed around institutions and projects
informally." ( https://dlaexchange.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/surveyanalysis.pdf , p. 10)
edited on Jan 24, 2016 by thealindquist
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Brian_ 2 months ago
What kind of information would you want to see? Are these tutorials, behindthescenes look at projects, something
else?
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Supply and Demand
by Mary Balkun | 3 months ago | in Digital Liberal Arts Exchange Challenge
The challenge is to fnd ways to motivate faculty to incorporate digital humanities projects, techniques,
and tools in their courses. Getting the attention and buyin of students is one approach: when they start
to demand that dh skills become part of their educational experince, instructors can find it difficult if not
impossible to ignore.It's supply and demand in reverse: if students demand courses infused to develop
dh skills, faculty may be more inclined to respond positively. If one goal is to educate students who can
function in a digital world, then as many of us as possible (if not all of us) need to be engaged in that
effort.
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Stacey Erdman 1 month ago
What about small institutional seed grants for DH projects embedded in a classroom environment?
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Big Sisters/Big Brothers Digital Library Experience
by Elisa Lanzi | 3 months ago | in Digital Liberal Arts Exchange Challenge
Liberal arts college library and IT staff have to wear many hats. It can be a challenge to launch large scale digital projects from the bottom up. The exchange would arrange for LAC staff to spend one or two weeks shadowing/interning at a large university in a digital program. This would provide "learning on the job" experience that might not happen at our own institution. Added benefit the host staff would learn as well, for example, by gaining perspective on undergraduate teaching and learning.
Create midlevel digitalhumanities funding opportunities for applying insights to new projects
by adamarenson | 3 months ago | in Digital Liberal Arts Exchange Challenge
There are startup digital grants, and largescale innovation grants. But there are not a lot of funds for
applying existing digital/data tools to new projects. Brainstorm, innovate, and create opportunities for
funding at this level of applying the tools and moving a project from first conception to completion within
a known path, in places without large DH centers.
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roymichaeldonald 1 month ago
In order for such a system to work, member schools would need to contribute to the pool of funds. While I can see the
virtue of this, I do wonder if this would raise the cost of membership to a point where it would be less attractive to some
schools. That said, one could imagine writing grants that would allow us to regrant. The early days of NITLE had such
minigrants which were excellent to get people to try things out and work together.
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Offer Intensive HandsOn workshops in advanced Digital Scholarship topics by MichaelRoy | 3 months ago | in Digital Liberal Arts Exchange Challenge
Develop intensive workshops (for faculty, librarians, and technologists) in using advanced technologies for
digital scholarship, such as programming (e.g. Python), GIS (e.g. ArcGIS), R & data visualization, 3D
modelling, digital imaging, project management, LAMP infrastructure, Linked Open Data, big data textual
analysis.
Suzanne Churchill 2 months ago
I love this idea. Something like DHSI, but smaller and geared toward liberal arts colleges. ILiADS (Institute for Liberal Arts
Digital Studies) is another good model, but it is project based. I'd love a skillbuilding series of summer workshops, with
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