The Chapman Center for Rural Studies, a Great Plains Digital Research Center

FAIN: CHA-284413-22

Kansas State University (Manhattan, KS 66506-0100)
Mary E. Kohn (Project Director: May 2021 to November 2024)

Update the digital infrastructure of the Chapman Center for Rural Studies at Kansas State University to ensure greater sustainability, discoverability, and interoperability with digital humanities projects across the university and region.

The Chapman Center for Rural Studies seeks funds to update its digital infrastructure and expand its digital capacities to stabilize current projects, create capacity for future projects, and facilitate collaboration with other digital humanities efforts at Kansas State University (K-State). First established to launch the nationally recognized NEH-funded “Lost Towns” project, our primary digital infrastructure (Omeka) lacks compatibility and functionality to realize the center’s mission to promote digital humanities work in the region. By upgrading our platform to Drupal, we will have the capacity to integrate with other K-State Digital Humanities efforts and support our current interdisciplinary digital projects. We will connect faculty and students with communities through Digitization Days, service-learning opportunities offering on-site digitization and translation for community members. This project will also establish an Advisory Board to ensure long-term sustainability. (Edited by staff)