Hamilton College
Burke Library
Digital Humanities Initiativedhi@hamilton.edu
dhinitiative.org
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United States
Primary Contact:
Janet Thomas Simons
co-director DHi
315-859-4424
Program Overview
The Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi) at Hamilton College is a collaboratory – digital parlance for a research and teaching collaboration – where new media and computing technologies are used to promote humanities-based teaching, research, and scholarship across the liberal arts.
Year publishing activities began: 2010
Organization: services are distributed across campus
Total FTE in support of publishing activities: professional staff (3); undergraduates (6)
Funding sources (%): non-library campus budget (50); grants (50)
Stage of publishing efforts (1–5):
Open access focus (1–5):
Advisory/editorial board:
Publishing Activities
Library-administered university press publications in 2015:
Library publications in 2015: databases (5); undergraduate capstones/honors theses (3)
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Media formats: text; images; audio; video; data; concept maps, modeling, maps, or other visualizations; TEI; 3D; virtual reality
Disciplinary specialties: religious studies; creative writing; africana studies; history
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Internal partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; undergraduate students
External partners: Open source liberal arts consortium - Islandora consortium group
Publishing platform(s): Fedora; Islandora
Digital preservation strategy: digital preservation services under discussion
Additional services: cataloging; metadata