Visualizing Digital Scholarship Activities at Indiana University and Beyond

Abstract

A complex, dynamic network of digital scholarship experts from across the campus serve as the core of the Indiana University Libraries’ Scholars’ Commons, a space and service hub open since September 2014 that supports research across disciplines. Weekly open consultation sessions offered by experts representing a wide range of research activities, from text analysis and visualization to geospatial mapping, are one of the key ways that digital scholarship is supported in the Scholars’ Commons. Extensive data collected from Digital Project Planning and Digitization Planning consultation sessions provides insight into the individuals engaged in digital scholarship projects and initiatives across the Indiana University Bloomington campus. Building upon analysis performed by Meridith Beck Sayre, Council on Library and Information Resources Data Curation Postdoctoral Fellow for Data Curation in the Humanities, this paper will present an analysis of the data collected thus far, depicting digital scholarship activity across campus, profiling digital scholarship practitioners and their projects, and highlighting disciplinary trends in digital scholarship emerging at Indiana University Bloomington. The consultation data will be compared to an early 2014 Ithaka S & R Sustaining Digital Humanities deep dive study, which surveyed faculty at Brown University, Columbia University, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Indiana University, for a broader understanding of more recent digital scholarship trends and patterns.