Support for Computational Research and Online Publication

The Forum for Digital Culture supports digital projects in every branch of the arts and humanities through all phases of research, from the initial acquisition of a project’s data through the stages of organizing, analyzing, publishing, and archiving the data.

The staff of the Forum for Digital Culture provide consultation, software training, data management, and other technical support for the digital projects of faculty and students. For more information or to schedule a consultation, send email to the Forum’s Director of Technology, Sandra Schloen, at sschloen@uchicago.edu.

The Forum for Digital Culture supports projects in every branch of the arts and humanities through all phases of the project, from the initial acquisition of the project’s data through the stages of managing, analyzing, and publishing the data and then archiving it in a standards-compliant fashion so it is preserved long into the future. This is done in a cost-effective and sustainable manner by means of two sophisticated, professionally maintained computational platforms that have been designed by scholars and are tailored for research in the humanities.

Online Publication of Scholarly Data

Online publication of the fruits of their computational research remains a challenge for scholars, who badly need a reliable mechanism for publishing on the Web the digital materials they have created in such a way that these materials are:

  • Free and open-access for researchers and students to use for non-commercial academic purposes.
  • Edited and peer-reviewed to ensure the quality and coherence of both the data and its mode of organization.
  • Citable and reconfigurable as individual items of information at a high level of granularity.
  • Kept accessible over the long term by professional system administrators in an institutional setting with a sustainable funding mechanism.

The Forum for Digital Culture is in the process of establishing an innovative Online Publication Service to meet this need, in close collaboration with the University of Chicago Library. For more information, send email to the Forum’s Director of Online Publications, Miller Prosser, at mcprosser@uchicago.edu.

Projects Supported by the Forum

The following projects have received computational support from the staff of the Forum for Digital Culture (not an exhaustive list):

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