Research Infrastructure for Digital Scholarship

FAIN: CHA-261919-19

Northeastern University (Boston, MA 02115-5005)
Daniel J. Cohen (Project Director: March 2018 to present)

Expansion of digital scholarship infrastructure and technical capacity through the creation of four new staff positions to undertake technical development, documentation, and integration using five pilot projects.

The Digital Scholarship Group at the Northeastern University Library is now completing a five-year startup phase that powerfully reflects the institution’s commitment to digital scholarship, experiential education, and organizational innovation. DSG’s applied research agenda focuses on the technologies, standards, and expertise needed to realize, publish, and curate these new forms of scholarship. The group’s first five years of operation have focused on developing an initial core infrastructure, building staff capacity, establishing policies and practices, and creating a strategic plan for DSG’s role in the library and at the university that reflects our commitment to sustainable, scalable ways to innovate in digital scholarship. We now seek funding to expand and solidify the organization’s infrastructure of staff and technical capacity to fully meet the institution’s digital scholarship needs.