Resources

Reseach Support

Northeastern University has an excellent landscape of support for digital scholarship that can help CDS projects and researchers with many different aspects of their work. We gather here a brief directory of organizations that provide relevant support and resources.

Research Data Services

RDS provides consultations, classroom visits, and online tutorials and resources to help people use, analyze, map, and visualize data.

Archives & Special Collections

Located on the lower level of Snell Library on Northeastern’s Boston campus, and in the Olin Library on Northeastern’s Oakland campus...

NULab

The NULab supports research projects and scholarly exchanges through grants and other programs...

...trains graduate students in DH and CSS skills through a Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities and a graduate Fellows program, and helps to bring digital and computational methods into a broad range of classes through the Digital Integration Teaching Initiative. They also sponsor talks, symposia, and an annual conference and co-host the NUDIGITAL Slack and listserv with the DSG. They are an important anchor for the CDS and their CDS office is a gathering point for NULab researchers, especially those working on NULab-funded grants and students in the DH Certificate program.

Humanities Center

The Humanities Center supports faculty and student research in the humanities and social sciences...

...through fellowship programs, working groups, discussion forums, symposia, seminars, informal dialogues, conferences, and joint projects.on Northeastern’s Boston, London, and Oakland campuses, the Humanities Center supports essential connections between researchers and projects across Northeastern’s global campus network. Their CDS office is a focal point for new programs and staff to provide long-term support of digital projects.

Digital Repository

The DRS serves as the informational foundation for many types of digital projects and provides secure, long-term management and access for important digital resources...

...including digitized materials, data sets, and publications created by members of the Northeastern community. The DRS staff also provide important services such as creating digital object identifiers (DOIs), providing advice on digitization and metadata creation, and providing essential information about Northeastern’s data curation and digital preservation practices to support external funding proposals.

Learning

The CDS offers workshops and training to meet the needs of its projects and research groups. In addition, many of the projects and groups within or adjacent to CDS already offer workshops and learning opportunities.

Workshops

Workshops and training events will be announced on the CDS Events page and on the CDS Slack and announcement list. Topics include:

text analysis tools and methods, including large-scale text mining
geospatial tools and methods of analysis
digital publication tools and methods
text encoding and XML technologies for creating complex digital representations of humanities documents
data visualization and tools for manipulating and presenting data
programming with languages like Python and R that are widely used in the humanities, arts, and social sciences
digital project management and related topics such as data management planning, grant-writing, and sustainability planning

Resources @ NEU

Some important existing learning resources at Northeastern include:

The NULab maintains an extensive collection of resources for digital scholarship including teaching materials, tutorials, and datasets.
The Library’s Research Data Services provides training and maintains valuable guides on topics including GIS and geospatial analysis, data visualization, and text analysis.
The Women Writers Project has developed self-guided tutorials and teaching materials on text encoding, XML technologies, and word-embedding models.