Connecting People, Building Community, and Enabling Research
The Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship connects people, builds community, and enables research to support and advance digital scholarship. We work with students, faculty, staff, and community collaborators at McMaster and beyond to support research, teaching, learning, and knowledge mobilization through digital scholarship.
We Offer Support in the Following Areas:
- 3D modelling and printing
- Data acquisition, preparation, analysis, visualization, management, security, and sharing
- Data ethics and data justice
- Discovering data and statistics
- Digital storytelling and exhibits (including Omeka S)
- Digital mapping and geospatial data
- Minimal computing
- Podcasting
- Research impact analysis and bibliometrics
- Research data management
- Social media research procedures and ethics
- Teaching with digital tools
- Textual analysis
- Website design
What We Do
Discover how the Sherman Centre can support your digital scholarship work through training, consultation, collaboration, and project development.
Training and Capacity Building
We offer a variety of opportunities to develop new skills and explore digital scholarship methods, tools, and approaches, whether you are just getting started or looking to deepen existing expertise. All Sherman Centre programming are offered at no cost through the generous support of the Lewis & Ruth Sherman Foundation, McMaster University Libraries, and McMaster University’s Faculty of Humanities. Our training offerings include:
- Online, in-person and hybrid skills workshops
- Self-directed resources available through our Online Learning Catalogue
- Our digital scholarship certificate of attendance program
Whether you are new to digital scholarship or looking to expand your expertise, our training programs are designed to support learners at all levels and foster an engaged digital scholarship community.
Consultations and Project Planning
We offer consultations for digital scholarship-related research, teaching and knowledge mobilization at any stage of development. Whether you are exploring an idea, refining a project scope, selecting tools and methods, or planning next steps, our team can help connect you with relevant expertise and resources. Tell us about your project.
Technical Support
We provide guidance on digital scholarship methods, tools, workflows, and infrastructure. From identifying appropriate technologies and methodologies to address project-specific technical challenges, we can help at any stage. Tell us about your project.
Curricular Support
We support the integration of digital scholarship into teaching and learning through class visits, workshops, guest lectures, and assignment development. Working with instructors across disciplines, we help students engage with digital tools and methods through course activities, projects, and experiential learning opportunities that build both practical skills and critical digital literacies. Bring SCDS to your class.
In addition to curricular support, the Sherman Centre offers HUMAN 2DH3 – Creative, Collaborative, Critical: Approaches to Digital Scholarship. This project-based course introduces students to key concepts and practices in digital scholarship, including project management, digitization, curation, information visualization, digital storytelling, and the social and ethical implications of digital knowledge production. Students develop practical skills and critical frameworks for creating and understanding digital scholarship across a range of disciplines.
Grant and Project Support
We support researchers integrating digital scholarship components into their grant applications and research projects. Where appropriate and when capacity permits, we can contribute in-kind support to grant applications and projects, including expertise, consultation, training, access to resources, and direct collaboration. Researchers interested in requesting Sherman Centre support for a grant application or research project are encouraged to review our Grant & Project Support Menu, which outlines available support options, expectations, and timelines. Check out our menu.
Collaboration and Community Building
We foster connections across disciplines, departments, and communities on and off campus to support collaborative and community-engaged digital scholarship. We believe meaningful digital scholarship emerges through partnerships, shared expertise, and collective learning. Ready to explore partnerships, collaborative opportunities, and community-engaged digital scholarship? Say hello!
Ready to Connect with SCDS?
The Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship collaborates with partners to support research, teaching, and larger community work related to digital scholarship. We believe that effective and meaningful collaborations occur when staff and partners work together in the development process, and when all collaborators share a clear understanding of expected roles and responsibilities.
Please fill out the intake form below to request support and/or collaboration from SCDS. Once submitted, a member of the Sherman Centre will contact you to meet and develop a work plan for the collaboration.
If you have additional questions, email scds@mcmaster.ca
