Digital Humanities Centers Internships, Summer 2009 – Spring 2011

1. Digital Humanities Centers Internships, Summer 2009 – Spring 2011 UT iSchool student opportunities, 2009

2. IMLS Project • Developing standard routes to iSchool and Digital Humanities Center (DHC) intern partnerships • Strengthening relations between iSchools and DHCs • Three iSchools (Texas, Michigan, Maryland) • Three DHCs (Nebraska, Michigan State, Maryland)

3. What are “digital humanities” and why should iSchool students care? • Also known as humanities computing • Provides opportunities for applying information science skills to humanities applications • Includes providing access to humanities materials via markup, digitization, and archiving • Includes devising analytical procedures for working with born-digital humanities materials • Includes creating digital tools for humanities research

4. What do the DHCs have to offer? • Check their websites in detail: • MITH http://mith.umd.edu/ • Special interests in electronic literature, cyberculture, analytical and visualization tools • MATRIX http://www2.matrix.msu.edu/ • Special interests in digital libraries and museums, sustainable collections, open-source tools • CDRH http://cdrh.unl.edu • Special interests in metadata, linguistic research, history

5. How does it work? • At UT, the internships will typically be configured as Master’s capstones (if you have been planning to write a thesis, this can be discussed) • Choice of summer, fall, spring • Choice of residential (at the DHC) or distance • If distance, would have to choose appropriate project (all DHCs have distance experience), will spend minimum 1 week in residence • If residential, can add independent study, WISE, or other elements from home university

6. What will the DHCs get? • Students will work on ongoing projects at the DHC, participating in existing research teams • DHCs in general will begin to tap a new source of information science talent to strengthen humanities in digital libraries/archives and humanities cyberinfrastructure • Residential students will participate in regular activities at the DHC • All students will participate in social networking hosted by the DHCs

7. How is it supervised? • UT iSchool faculty member must be sponsor • Internship project will have agreed deliverable for evaluation • DHC client will judge student work and complete capstone evaluation form • Grade will be issued by UT faculty

8. How can a student get one? • Two-stage process (Texas two-step) • Application through project partners (submit locally): • Application form • CV, Statement of interest, two recommendation letters • Choose two DHCs in order of preference • Students are selected by project partners • Then if selected, set up capstone at regular registration • Work with internship partner for capstone description and client agreement, choose local faculty sponsor • Register for capstone locally as usual

9. What will the student get? • Money: tuition/fees for 3 hours plus stipend: $5458.00 (rises in future years with tuition) • Reading list on digital humanities • Opportunity to collaborate on an interesting project • Credit toward graduation, great resume entry • Invitation to attend the fall Nebraska Digital Workshop in the year of the internship, to meet with students and faculty participants from all partnership institutions

10. When do students apply? • Applications open after a formal call next week, November 21 • Application form will be made available • Evaluation criteria will be described • Deadline for applications is January 15 for capstones to begin in summer school 2009 or fall semester 2009 • Notification about selection February 15

11. Questions? • Program? • Projects?