We are an interdepartmental team building and deploying a pilot workflow of effective practices for faculty and students as they create, catalog, manage, curate, and disseminate a growing collection of their digital works. By piloting with four faculty members and their students from multiple disciplines, we are developing a workflow where (i) pieces of digital scholarship are initially stored, managed, and shared on an individual’s personal digital space, and (ii) donated and curated pieces become a new type of collection elevated and promoted via multiple digital platforms for wider dissemination and use. Student projects born from both academic rigor and entrepreneurial experiences inspire future scholarship.
We would like to thank the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC), Wheaton College (MA), and the Wheaton College Permanent Collection for their generous support of this project. Initial funding and support was part of an IMAGINE Student/Faculty Special Interest Group - INT 299: From 3D Modeling to Virtual Viewing - in the Spring 2018 semester.