Digital Text Services
The goal of this team is to provide MSU researchers (faculty and graduate students) with assistance and potential collaboration in the area of digital humanities and the creation and management of digital text. By building on Library collections and services this team hopes to create a virtual center for work in DH, and to foster partnerships with faculty while at the same time highlighting existing collections and services of the MSU Libraries.
The DTS Team also exists in cooperation with the Research Data Management Guidance group, and shares similar goals:
- To provide opportunity for collaboration and guidance to faculty in the development, creation, and manipulation of digital text
- To connect faculty to distributed digital text support services throughout the university
- To educate students, faculty, and staff about the importance of digital text creation, storage, and dissemination
Best practices in the creation and manipulation of digital text can:
- Help you secure grant funding
- Make your projects easier to navigate and find
- Bring traditional library and archival expertise for the organization and care of digital information to your own personal research projects
- Help you make efficient and effective use of research funding
Services provided:
- Advising: Project planning, including contact with vendors, resource advising, grant writing assistance, copyright consulting
- Text and Corpus Services: Advice and training in the coding pf text, text mining, API development, advice in curation and storage of text/data
- Data/Text Visualization: Help with visualization and GIS software, other Digital Humanities tools
- Digitization Services: Imaging services, including including scanning of text and digitization of audio/video to support Library collaboration with campus units
- Metadata Services: Advice, consulting, and training, for best practices in metadata usage with digital projects
- Copyright Consultation: See the Library Office of Copyright
Contact: dts@mail.lib.msu.edu