Digital Scholarship at Tisch Library provides expertise, services, and pedagogical support in digital humanities, visual design and creative media methodologies, project development, and open access scholarship to Tufts University faculty, staff, and students. We partner, connect, and facilitate conversations with colleagues across Tufts who support open access publishing, research data services, and digital initiatives to develop and steward sustainable and open digital scholarship at Tufts University. Our partners include staff in the Digital Design Studio, Open Scholarship and Research Data, Digital Initiatives, Data Lab, Tufts Archival Research Center, and Research Technology Services at Tufts University.
Our aim is to engage and collaborate with you, empower you to build expertise, and support you throughout the scholarship process and research lifecycle.
What We Offer
We offer expertise, instruction, project support and collaboration in
- Visual design and creative media formats, equipment, and methodologies, including podcasting, storytelling, sound studies, etc.
- Creative assessment using media and design
- Digital Humanities methods and pedagogy, including archives and collections, maps and timelines, encoding, text analysis, etc.
- Open access publishing, including copyright help
- Open-source software and tools
- Digitization and optical character recognition (OCR)
- Audio and video transcription and captioning
- Data management & file organization
- Digital project development and planning from start to finish
- Project-based learning and training
