Key Activities and Accomplishments
FY 19-20
- Hosted 2 faculty fellows
- Hosted 4 graduate externs
- Planned and organized the hosting of the Keystone DH 2020 conference that was then unfortunately postponed to 2021
- Planned and organized the hosting of Temple's first Virtual Reality Day that was then unfortunately postponed to 2021
- Assisted McGill University in the creation of their Game On! series to showcase how libraries are spaces of play and how libraries can assist in endeavors of serious play
- Moved ahead with plans for our summer 2020 and all 2021 workshops to be online or blended
FY 18-19
- Planning for a move to a space 4-6x times larger than our current one with ~4x more equipment, and to greatly expand our work with undergrads, as we have primarily been focused on graduate students thus far.
- Finalizing the creation of a Graduate Certificate Program in Cultural Analytics. Completing the final year of the Digital Scholars Program (phased out for the Graduate Certificate).
- Working with 3 Faculty Fellows and their projects.
- Working with Makerspace Grant recipients or using making technology and methods in the classroom.
- Incorporated built in the DSC Makerspace in Art Thesis shows.
- Continued work on the Developing the Data Set of Nineteenth-Century Knowledge project.
- NEH submission for the Virtual Blockson project. DSC space and staff included in 3 separate Presidential Arts & Humanities Grant submissions.
- Began and continue to work on guidelines for VR accessibility.