Digital Humanities Services
University Libraries partners with faculty, students and others to explore digital humanities through research, teaching, learning and publishing.
About digital humanities
Digital humanities (DH) is where technology and traditional humanities disciplines intersect to create dynamic, interactive scholarship. By thoughtfully adopting DH tools into your work and classroom, you can use technology to share your unique ideas, interpretations and writing in a new way.
Are you interested in exploring new tools for your teaching or scholarship? Do you want to build familiarity with digital humanities technology for your classwork or career aspirations once you leave WMU? DH tools are always secondary to your unique ideas and scholarship, and we’re here to help you.
Our services
We help the Western Michigan University community explore digital humanities in a variety of ways:
- Collaborate with WMU scholars to incorporate digital humanities into their scholarship and research projects.
- Assist faculty and instructors with incorporating digital humanities tools into their courses.
- Consult with and train students to create digital humanities projects.
- Offer classroom instruction and one-on-one training in digital humanities tools and concepts.
- Provide on-boarding and training in Scalar, WMU Libraries newest open-source digital storytelling and digital humanities platform.
Projects
Faculty project
Student project
Class project
Spotlight on Scalar
Scalar is the most recent tool in our DH technology toolkit. Scalar describes itself as “a free, open source authoring and publishing platform that’s designed to make it easy for authors to write long-form, born-digital scholarship online. Scalar enables users to assemble media from multiple sources and juxtapose them with their own writing in a variety of ways, with minimal technical expertise required.”
Scalar resources
Scalar is just one of the tools we have for creating and developing DH projects. We will work with you to find a solution tailored specifically to your project or idea.
