Claremont Center for Digital Humanities

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Participants

• Greg Hess, Lead Dean• Jacque Wernimont, Grant PI• Sam Kome, R&D Librarian• Allegra Gonzalez, Digital Initiatives Librarian• Working group:

Lori Ann Ferrell (CGU)Steven Casper (KGI) Rachel Mayeri (HMC) Audrey Bilger (CMC) Alex Juhasz (Pitzer) Richard McKirahan (Pomona)

10,000 foot TimelineBegan with planning grant Fall 2012-Sept 2013

Will submit grant request to Mellon Sept 2013

Funding of CCDH January 2014

CCDH operational on grant Jan 2014 – Jan 2017

2nd grant request Sept 2016

CCDH operational on grant #2 Jan 2017 – Jan 2020

CCDH becomes part of operating budget Jan 2020

Planning Grant ProcessFall

• 7C conversations

• Regional conversations

• finish infrastructure surveys

• site visits

• identify a design team

• scope the center and collaborations

Spring

• January retreat: refine scope

• write grant to fund center

• establish firm collaborative infrastructure

• work with design team

Planning Grant: Major MilestonesEducation

DH Site Visits (MIT, UCLA, USC, Arts Center, Oxy) NovAttend THATCampSoCaland DH2012 SeptInfrastructure & expertise surveys NovInput from Faculty/Staff (iterative) DecConversations with Instructional Tech re: classrooms Nov

Leadership (building capacity and infrastructure)Faculty/Staff education phase 1: Blog SeptFaculty/Staff education phase 2: local meetings Dec (3/4 complete)Southland DH collaboration discussions Ongoing: monthlyCooperative model (proposed) Early JanFormalize other cooperative efforts April(Vibrant Data Labs, MIT)

ScopingPlanning retreat Jan 17 & 18Center identity, scope, staffing JanOrganizational model (proposed) Dec

Planning Grant:Additional Milestones

Architect/Design interviews Nov

Design team selected Dec

Pilot project begins Jan

Design sketches March

Draft of grant and budget April

Revised grant request June

Mellon discussions May and July

Pilot project in viewable format Aug

Final grant request submitted Sept

Decisions to be made: planning grant work flow

During the planning grant phase, what does the decision making process look like?

- Grant PI transition to Director?

- Recommendations to ADC?

- how many options?

- all decisions or subset?

- how much lead time?

- Vetted by Presidents as well?

- Feedback loop to ensure viability of changes?

Decisions: Organizational Structure

Staffingcurrently proposing:

Faculty DirectorLibrary-based Assistant DirectorProgrammer/Web DeveloperProject ManagerGrant administration/admin assistantClinic director?

Organizational structure(s)Faculty director – home collegeother staff – library? CUC?

Proposals re: IdentityWhat kind of center is CCDH?

Interdisciplinary and collaborative

Regional hub

2 themes: Material/Digital & Vibrant Data

Incubator

What kind of work will it foster?

Experimental/exploratory work that addresses the themes and includes UG

Research clusters

What will be the relationship between projects and CCDH in future?

can partner if have external funding

not agreeing to perpetual hosting

What is the nature of the collaboration between CCDH and CDI, GIS lab, Special Collections?

minimum: CDI repository for CCDH works

more: tool sharing, metadata, OA, preservation expertise, GIS/Mapping expertise, access to documents/ephemera, area expertise

Decisions to be made: Space/Aesthetics

• 2nd floor Honnold-Mudd space identified by library ADs

• Interviewed 4 design/architecture teams, have narrowed to two: Gensler and a team of faculty from Arts Center

• Design budget and goals?