Each year, the Digital Scholarship Lab takes on a cohort of MSU faculty, specialists, staff, and/or graduate students to participate in the Project Incubator. This program assists the group in exploring digital scholarship tools and methodologies to develop digital projects. Digital scholarship encompasses an array of potential research projects. The Project Incubator fosters academic, analytic, and even artistic presentations of data.

This year's five participants began working and learning together in early October as a cohort and will continue to work through this semester in co-work sessions during Spring Semester. We’d like to take this opportunity to share a bit about the participants and their projects:

• Blaire Morseau: Potawatomi Star Knowledge, an astronomy presentation of native constellation mapping.

• Crystal VanKooten: Adventures, Friends, and Witness: The Alaskan Experience of Nurses Jacque Greeman, Annne Engbers, and Marge VanKooten, an oral history archive of the three women's experience in Alaska circa 1964.

• Katies Knowles: The Stratford Heritage Guide, a text based analysis of travel guides of Shakespeare's birthplace.

• Noah Kaye and Daniel Gutierrez: Seleukid Coins in the Collection of the Ödemiş Museum: A Linked Open Data Publication, a digital documentation of ancient coins for collection-based corpus.

• Siddharth Chandra: The Mass Killings in Indonesia 1965-1966, a mapped display of data demographics.

Each of the participants of the Project Incubator will share, providing an overview of the project at a Showcase event at 4pm on April 18, 2024, which will be held in conjunction with the DH@MSU end of year celebration.