CERES Call For Proposals 2017 | Digital Scholarship Group | Northeastern University

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Summary:

"Call for General CERES Proposals

The Digital Scholarship Group (DSG) invites Northeastern faculty, staff, and students to submit project proposals for the next round of CERES: Exhibit Toolkit development. We welcome proposals that explore new and interesting ways to create thematic collections of digital materials and research, published as website exhibits.

The CERES: Exhibit Toolkit is a WordPress plugin and theme developed by DSG staff. CERES is used to create websites that dynamically integrate images, text, video, and other digital materials into complex scholarly narratives and exhibits. Digital materials may be drawn from Northeastern’s Digital Repository Service (DRS) or the Digital Public Library of America, and potentially from other open repositories as well. Accepted projects will partner with the DSG and DRS teams to use CERES to securely store their project materials in the DRS and create a customized WordPress site to publish those materials on the web.

In 2017 the DSG will be extending and refining many of our existing Toolkit features, based on the proposals we accept. Projects especially suited to this call for this year’s proposals may:

 

Call for CERES Classroom proposals

We are excited to announce a new program of support for classroom use of the CERES: Exhibit Toolkit. We invite proposals from faculty for courses to be held in Fall 2017 and Spring 2018. The deadline for proposals is March 31.

Classroom use of CERES might take many forms, including:

  • Having students contribute exhibits (singly or in groups) to a long-term cumulative project that might persist from year to year: for example, focusing on a particular set of archival materials
  • Having students work on curating a set of archival materials relating to an existing CERES project: for instance, adding georeferencing information to enable the creation of dynamic maps
  • Having students contribute exhibits to one of the existing CERES projects that invites contributions, such as the Early Black Boston Digital Almanac or the Early Caribbean Digital Archive

To support classroom use of CERES, DSG offers training for faculty and teaching assistants in using CERES, and can visit the class and provide instruction or lead discussion about the exhibit-building process and tools. We have an extensive set of supporting materials including step-by-step instructions, how-to guides, and sample assignments. We are also happy to work with faculty on planning out syllabi and lesson plans that make imaginative use of these digital tools, at whatever scale works best for the learning objectives of the course.

Applicants will be notified by April 30, and we will schedule planning meetings in early summer. We are happy to meet with anyone interested in submitting a proposal to talk about possibilities. For more information, contact us at dsg@northeastern.edu. We look forward to working with you!"

Link:

http://dsg.neu.edu/ceres/ceres-call-for-proposals-2017/

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