Project Support

Project Design, Planning, and Support

The College's Digital Humanities Lead Developer is available to help at all stages of a project's life cycle from the initial conceptualization and grant application process, through the project design, to the production of the final result for other scholars. See the development support page for more information.

Project Services

The following services are available for digital humanities projects. Please contact James Smith <jgsmith@tamu.edu> for more information or to make arrangements for a service.

Interactive Account

Members of the College working on digital humanities projects may request an account on dh-shell.tamu.edu. This account provides access to a wide range of UNIX command line tools for those familiar with the UNIX environment.

Source Code Management

Source code control systems are applications that manage a history of all of the changes made to a program. They allow you to view past changes, see who made them, and roll back to an earlier version of an application.

Approved projects may take advantage of a centrally managed software repository provided by the College for digital humanities projects. This repository is designed for those faculty or other members of a research project who are comfortable programming. Tools with subversion integration (e.g., the Eclipse IDE) are able to work with the repository.

Project Management

Approved projects may also use a web-based project management system that can be integrated with the source code repository. This includes a wiki and support for setting milestones or short-term project goals in consultation with support staff.

Digital Resources Workbench

The Digital Resources Workbench is designed to make common collection and annotation projects easy to develop without the faculty member having to make a large investment in understanding and developing the technology infrastructure. This system is under development with core pieces being rolled out to the dh-shell.tamu.edu interactive accounts over the course of 2009.