CFP: Rapid Response Digital Scholarship Small Projects
The Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS) welcomes proposals for Rapid Response Research digital scholarship small projects from the Brown University community.
Do you have an immediate need for a team to offer advice on how you can design and develop a digital scholarship project on COVID-19 or another emergency? Faculty, would you like support for a course related to a rapid response research project? Graduate students, would you like help incorporating a rapid response research digital scholarship project into your dissertation? Brown University community members may submit a proposal to receive support from a small CDS team to collaboratively work towards project development, initial development prototypes (e.g. mockups for a database, creating an original dataset for a text mining project), user testing, and other exploratory or short-term work. Rapid Response Small Projects should be amenable to completion within approximately six months.
Don’t hesitate to contact us directly at digitalprojects@brown.edu with any questions about your project idea or the application process.
Submission Deadline
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First Round: May 15, 2020
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Second Round: June 15, 2020
Project Initiation: One month after acceptance
Project Timeframe
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First Round: June 15, 2020-December 30, 2020
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Second Round: July 15, 2020-January 30, 2021
Some background
CDS has specialists in the following areas:
- Project direction and management
- Development work in Python and MySQL to create databases and other products
- User experience design
- Text analysis using “off-the-shelf” tools and Python
- Creating original datasets through web scraping or other automated means
- Grant writing for digital scholarship projects
- Born-digital scholarly publishing
- Data visualization
Brown faculty, staff, and graduate students can apply for CDS support to develop their project as it relates to the above areas. Competitive proposals will evidence commitment to creative and sustainable collaboration. As you develop your proposal, we encourage you to think about the kinds of collaborations you’d like to have with colleagues across Brown University as well as your end goal.
Proposal Format and Submission Information
Proposals should follow this format, with every document submitted together as one PDF, and be submitted here. Please note that you will need to share a link to your proposal (e.g. using Dropbox or Google Docs).
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Name of project
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List of current team members (if any), titles, and roles on the project
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Investigator Bios (if applicable)
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Summary of Project (no more than 200 words)
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Project Rationale and Statement of Significance (no more than 1,000 words)
Consider the following questions: What is the significance of your project or idea? How does it aim to serve particular communities? To what extent, if any, are your project outcomes already addressed by Brown University or other institutions? What needs to be done to accomplish your goals? Explain the proposed project’s significance and research value.
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Collaboration needs
How will collaborating with the Library help you?
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Timeline of completion
Do you have a timeline of completion to reach your goals? Or is this something you’d like to work out with Library staff?
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Letters of support
If you are a staff member, please submit a letter of support from your manager. If you are a graduate student, please submit a letter of support from your advisor. If you are a faculty member, you are not required to submit a letter of support.
Contact
Center for Digital Scholarship | digitalprojects@brown.edu
Code of Conduct
Project activity in CDS aims to welcome and include everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, religion, nationality or political beliefs.