Digital Scholarship Infrastructure¶
“Digital infrastructure is not robust like a brick. It is not inherently hard. It is robust like a tree: it lasts because it grows, adapts, and repairs. It may also die. We have to keep it alive. It demands care.” – Mathieu Jacomy
Digital Scholarship Infrastructure (DSI) is responsible for a range of digital scholarship activities at YUL including digital preservation and knowledge mobilization, web archiving, media creation, critical making, and digital humanities and social sciences support. DSI leads colleagues to envision, plan and enable sustainable digital research and scholarship activities that heighten the impact of students, faculty members and library staff at York University.
Mission¶
The mission of Digital Scholarship Infrastructure (DSI) is to maintain and prioritize programming in the areas of digital preservation, digital scholarship, open publishing, media creation, critical making and digital humanities and social sciences (DHSS). We take particular care to ensure: equity of access; sustainability of infrastructure, resources, expertise and personnel; the preservation of unique collections held by York University Libraries; and the scholarship of York University faculty, students and community members. This includes communicating our expertise, offerings and services to YUL and all stakeholders.
Vision¶
Digital Scholarship Infrastructure is the core functioning unit fostering and supporting digital scholarship, media creation, critical making, digital preservation, and discovery and dissemination of scholarly output and cultural heritage holdings at York University Libraries and the York University community through a lens of sustainability. DSI houses experts in the area of open publishing, digital preservation, media creation, metadata standards and best practices, digital humanities and social sciences (DHSS), and web archiving. DSI fosters knowledge and skills acquisition for students, faculty and community members; these practices foster communities of practice around the equitable, critical and ethical use of technology in generating knowledge and scholarship.