Plan a Digital Scholarship Project

Consider these critical elements and methodological principles as hallmarks that qualify a scholarly work as digital scholarship. As you envision your project, aim for it to embody some or all of these characteristics. 

Digital scholarship ... 

• advances a scholarly argument
• has a pedagogical aim
• offers interpretation
• is collaborative
• is interdisciplinary
• is (ideally) open access
• is reusable (downloadable, manipulable, transformable, query-able, or similar)

A Key Question to Ask: 

• Can this work be done in print? If not, how can digital methods, tools, or a project enhance your scholarship?

• Voyages
• The African Diaspora PhD Tumblr
• Musical Passage
• 1853 Richmond and its Slave Market
• Slavery & Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive
• The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave
• A History of Slavery in the United States

Before you focus on a given tool or methodology, which can often limit the possibilities of your project, spend time with the research question itself. Digital Scholarship is about engaging critically with the intersections between technology and how we act, think, and learn. It is not about the tools. 

• What new knowledge do you wish to construct? 
• How would you like to communicate it with others?