Mission

The University’s digital scholarship hub, the Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS) provides inspiration, expertise, services, and teaching in digital scholarship methodologies, project development, and publication to Brown faculty, staff, and students.

Vision

CDS develops and stewards faculty and student projects that advance innovative scholarly ideas and the field of digital scholarship by fostering projects that are inclusive and open, responsive to diverse perspectives, and focused and intentional about ethical and cultural concerns and public impact.

Values

Collaboration

We believe that collaboration is essential to creating excellent and impactful digital scholarship. We encourage collaborative work that supports and brings out the best of all members of project teams. 

Inclusiveness

We seek to collaborate with faculty, students, staff, departments, and centers across campus regardless of previous experience or expertise in digital scholarship. We especially encourage members of our community that identify as people of color, women, LGBTQIA, neurodiverse, and first-generation students, whose work has been systemically underrepresented, to pursue digital scholarship projects, though of course all community members are urged to consider using digital scholarship and collaboration with CDS.