Digital Projects & Exhibits

Digital Projects and Collections can take many forms. Below are some examples of the types of projects you may want to embark on. If you’re interested in learning about Digital Scholarship activities in general, the Digital Scholarship Library Guide is a great place to start!

In the scope of your research, you may need to create and manage digital images, below are some resources to get you started:

• Creating Digital Media
• Image Management Platforms

Web Publishing Platforms

• UChicago Voices: a free, self-service web platform that allows UChicago students, faculty, and staff to build blogs and websites for portfolios, courses, research groups, clubs, and more.
• Scalar: an open-source authoring and publishing platform designed to allow users to write long-form, born-digital scholarship online, and assemble media from multiple sources and juxtapose them with their own writing.
• WordPress: a content management system that can host and publish multimedia projects, images, and text.

Digital Exhibit Platforms

• Omeka: a platform for creating and sharing online exhibits and digital collections.
• CollectionBuilder: an open-source digital collections builder that utilizes the static site generator, Jekyll, and Google sheets.
• Wax: an open-source digital collections builder using the static site generator, Jekyll.

Temporal Projects:

• TimelineJS: Open source timeline builder that uses Google sheets.
• TimeMapper: Interactive timeline builder that allows for spatial representation

Spatial Projects:

• StoryMapJS: From the creators of the popular TimelineJS, present a timeline on a map.
• ArcGIS StoryMaps: An instructional resource for teaching with ArcGIS StoryMaps at UChicago.