Goals of this initiative

The overall purpose of this project is to strengthen AMICAL’s ability to plan and engage in collaborative capacity building for the digital humanities.

More specific goals include:

• For teams from AMICAL institutions
  • Develop skills in specific digital scholarship/pedagogy methods, digital project management, etc. that relate directly to local needs
  • Develop plans for digital scholarship programs/initiatives/support at team’s institution
  • Continue to create consortial community and begin building a group of AMICAL facilitators/liaisons
  • Build recognition of, and support for, local digital scholarship initiatives on the part of local academic leadership
• For the AMICAL DHSI Cohort Organizers (AMICAL Admin + committee representatives)
  • Identify concrete opportunities, and make plans, for AMICAL support of teams’ goals above
  • Advance AMICAL’s planning for consortium-level digital scholarship program and resource development
• For the AMICAL DHSI Cohort Organizers + Teams from AMICAL institutions
  • Make connections with non-AMICAL peers for exchanging ideas/advice in the future