Digital Research Start-Up Partnerships

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Digital Research Start-Up Partnerships for Graduate Students
Summer 2018
Applications are due June 1, 2018. Notification of acceptance will be on June 8, 2018.
Call for projects: Got ideas for ways to analyze your data? Visions of maps, graphs, and visualizations? Perhaps you have already collected mounds of data and could use some advice.
We’ve got just the program for you! The UCLA Library is offering its Digital Research Start-Up Partnerships (DResSUP) program this summer, where we (librarians and library staff with technical skills) will partner with and work alongside you to get your data into shape!
We are calling for project proposals from graduate students across the humanities, social sciences, and affiliated disciplines at UCLA. Projects can be new or ongoing and may (but need not) be part of dissertation research. The program is primarily for students with projects that would benefit from digital research practices such as data analysis, mapping and visualization, or advice on metadata or other standards.
Apply now for this six-week program (July 9-August 17). Priority will be given to students who can be at UCLA during those six weeks. The program will be structured like an incubator for start-ups and will provide working tools, librarians and library staff with expertise in digital research, and a cohort of graduate students working on similar projects. If your project is selected, our team will work with you to identify realistic goals, offer workshops on tools that will be useful for you to learn, and consult with you on your project. We’re calling these “partnerships” because you will work with us as a member of the team. Our goal is to get your project off to a good start!
How can we help? The library can assist in the following areas:
  • digitize, transcribe, geo-reference or perform OCR on materials
  • write scripts to “mine” data from digitized collections (e.g. Hathi Trust)
  • create metadata using appropriate standards
  • convert materials from one format to another (e.g. raw text to spreadsheet)
  • collect data from social media
  • crawl and/or archive websites
  • prepare data for storage or publication in a repository
The entire group will meet for a one-day Boot-Camp during the first week. We’ll work with each participant to plan how to reach their project goals for the summer; putting best practices in place, designing workflows, and helping to learn skills needed to continue working on their project. We’ll schedule weekly, informal “check-up” sessions during the six weeks to report progress and trouble-shoot.
Questions? Email zoe@library.ucla.edu

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