CaliDHRI

Digital Humanities (or DH), especially within libraries, has blossomed at the University of California: with programs at UCLA, Irvine, Santa Barbara, and San Diego. However, connecting these West Coast regional programs and centers has remained a challenge. Although some of us have alliances with centers at Stanford and the University of Southern California, these are based mostly upon relationships between individuals. While technologies such as IIIF afford us the ability to collaborate across institutional divides, our efforts to bridge those divides have remained largely informal and ad-hoc. Researchers who are connected to funded centers have an advantage over those who are less well-connected: graduate students and academic professionals such as librarians and lecturers who seek to “skill-up” to do their projects as well as support researchers. Our goal is to address those inequities–making DH more accessible and equitable–by establishing a local version of DHRI