Harvard Digital Scholarship Summit

Digital scholarship is the use and production of digital forms of research by scholars in the creation of new knowledge. These digital forms are characterized by their distributed and collaborative nature. Examples include digital repositories, research collaboratories, computing grids and web-based publishing platforms.

On June 9th Harvard is holding a Digital Scholarship Summit to bring together Harvard faculty members, PhD researchers, technologists, and librarians who develop digital scholarship tools for themselves or provide digital scholarship tools and services for others.

The purpose of the event is threefold:

1. To discuss and identify shared interest in digital scholarship
2. To share the status on current digital initiatives
3. To begin a discussion on the existing and desired services and tools to support digital scholarship across disciplines

The audience for the Summit is an internal one: Harvard faculty from the Social Sciences, Sciences and Humanities conducting projects, and internal service providers and partners in the development of digital scholarship projects. Our goal is to bring the various initiatives together as a community, provide an opportunity for cross-pollination of ideas, and, where it makes sense, to connect various parts together.