Carpenter, Digital Scholarship Librarian, U of Binghamton Libraries--As a digital scholarship librarian one of my responsibilities is promoting digital scholars’ projects on campus. I promote projects through events, newsletters, and published interviews. These initiatives have helped build a stronger community of practice on campus and aim to de-silo our various digital scholarship groups while promoting their unique offerings. These initiatives, while small, have a big impact towards building more visibility and curiosity for digital scholarship methods and research more largely. On the panel, I would discuss the initiatives I’ve started, the impact on campus from these initiatives, and how we plan to sustain and scale those initiatives.

Chun, Co-Founder, DH Colaboratory, Kenyon College--Since 2017, https://digital.kenyon.edu/dh has had over 20k downloads from 139 countries worldwide. We learned traditional essays and even beautifully crafted websites rarely reach their intended audience. Instead we’ve developed a distinct research poster format that is borrowed from scientific disciplines but with significant alterations. Based upon our analytics, I will share the narrative and design elements that have yielded the highest visibility for student digital humanities projects at a small liberal arts college.

Tonya Howe (MU) with John O’Brien (UVA), and Chris Ruotolo (UVA)--Many newcomers to DH work come at it from the perspective of teachers: digitization, encoding, technology that can deepen student engagement with texts. One key way to enhance access to and visibility of DH work is through engaging with the principles and communities of the Open Education movement. While OERs are not typically thought of in this manner, we believe that digitized texts and other digitized textual resources can help bring Open Education and DH together, cross-pollinating to generate more visibility in both communities. We would like to present Literature in Context, a digital anthology of literature in English, and discuss the strategies we have used to encourage its adoption as an OER literature survey course. (Project URL: https://anthologydev.lib.virginia.edu/index.html)