Digital Scholarship Services (DiScho) supports and collaborates with Princeton University researchers navigating digital skills, tools, and methods needed to create digital scholarship projects. Whether you’re beginning to think about a project idea or have hit a roadblock for a project already underway, DiScho can help you select tools, gain skill sets, and plan the full lifecycle for your digital project from conception to publication.

Schedule a Consultation

DiScho Specialists are available to meet to give advice and support for digital projects, research, and methods. Meetings can cover a variety of topics, such as conceptualizing a project or research question, choosing the right digital tool or framework, seeking training, troubleshooting technical obstacles, and project management.

Schedule a Consultation

 

Areas of Focus

The DiScho team offers regular workshops and consultations on popular digital scholarship tools and considerations. We can help you think through your project generally, and we also have specific expertise in the following areas: 

  • Programming languages like Python
  • Text Analysis
  • 3D Imaging 
  • Data Cleaning
  • Working with APIs
  • Digital Exhibitions 
  • Mapping and timelines
  • Research Websites

Upcoming Events

Past Events

  • Legal Issues in Computational Research Using Text and Data Mining, with guest presenter Dave Hansen, Executive Director of Authors Alliance
  • Lifecycle of 3D Data, with guest presenter Matt Cook, Digital Scholarship Program Coordinator at Harvard Library. In collaboration with the PUL Makerspace (co-hosted by the PUL Makerspace)
  • Modeling Cultural Heritage, with guest presenters Jeff Evans, Manager of Visual Resources and Photographer, and Joseph Hu, Visual Imaging Specialist, for the Princeton University Art Museum (co-hosted by the PUL Makerspace)
  • Douglass Day 2024
  • Introduction to OpenRefine: Learn to Wrangle Your Data
  • Data Wrangling Tools: OpenRefine and Linking Data
  • Introduction to GitHub: Enabling Digital Project Collaboration and Sustainable Websites
  • Creating a Digital Exhibit: Introduction to Collection Builder
  • Digital Storytelling with ArcGIS StoryMaps
  • From Text to Map: Digital Mapping Methods for Your Research
  • The Research Life Cycle and Digital Tools: Surveying Project Infrastructure
  • Intro to Python for Working with Text
  • Python for Web Scraping and APIs
  • Python for Text Cleaning
  • Python for Text Analysis
  • Python for Machine Learning: Text Generation
  • Introduction to Photogrammetry

DiScho Team