Scholars Studio: Key Activities & 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

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.

We have continued to work with Omeka and Scalar for digital publishing
We digitally published the Gen Con Programs project and presented on it
We successfully initiated the Makerspace grant program with the Center for the Advancement of Teaching
We convened staff across campus and made significant headway in the creation of the Cultural Analytics Graduate Certificate Program
We submitted an external grant and received funding for Dr. Peter Logan’s Encyclopedia Project