About Us

Mission: The University’s digital scholarship hub, the Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS), provides inspiration, expertise, services, and teaching in digital scholarship methodologies, project development, and publication to Brown faculty, staff, and students.

Vision: The Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS) develops and stewards faculty and student projects that advance innovative scholarly ideas and the field of digital scholarship by fostering projects that are inclusive and open, responsive to diverse perspectives, and focused and intentional about ethical and cultural concerns and public impact.

Values:

Collaboration: We believe that collaboration is essential to creating excellent and impactful digital scholarship. We encourage collaborative work that supports and brings out the best of all members of project teams. 

Inclusiveness: We seek to collaborate with faculty, students, and staff, and departments and centers across campus regardless of previous experience or expertise in digital scholarship. We especially encourage members of our community, including but not limited to people of color, women, LGBTQIA, neurodiverse, and first-generation, whose work has been systemically underrepresented, to pursue digital scholarship projects. 

Innovation:  We support transformative approaches to research and learning, and to the creation of innovative scholarship that raises new questions, reaches broad audiences, and impacts communities. To do this, we encourage and guide intellectual exploration and creativity.Community: We seek to build and nurture the digital scholarship community at Brown University and beyond. We believe that scholarship should make a positive difference in the world, and we encourage our academic partners to consider how their work can improve the lives of individuals and communities.

Community: We seek to build and nurture the digital scholarship community at Brown University and beyond. We believe that scholarship should make a positive difference in the world, and we encourage our academic partners to consider how their work can improve the lives of individuals and communities.

Training the next generation: We are committed to training the next generation of digital scholarship practitioners and scholars. The digital humanities doctoral certificate program provides a framework for graduate students to learn and grow their digital humanities skills and knowledge. Undergraduate and graduate students, as well as postdoctoral fellows, involved in the project work gain experiences and training relevant for a wide range of careers where knowledge and skills with digital media are central.