Digital scholarship
Learn about digital scholarship activities at LSE and how we can support you.
Introduction
Digital scholarship can be broadly understood as evolving research practices using digital tools, methods and collections. At LSE Library we are developing our skills and expertise to support innovative digital scholarship.
Our goal
Our goal is to be an active research partner, collaborator and innovative leader in the area of digital scholarship. Underpinning this is our foundational role in the ambition of LSE's 2030 Shape the World strategy to be the leading social science institution in the world with the greatest global impact.
Talk to us
We are eager to develop our understanding of your needs as a researcher undertaking digital scholarship. Contact us for an initial chat so we can learn how to develop our services and assist you in areas where we have already developed expertise.
Current activities
We work across many areas of digital scholarship. Here is a snapshot of our current activities. As our understanding and expertise grow, so too will this list.
- Digitisation of LSE Library collections. Our in-house digitisation resource enables us to grow our digitised collections available online for all.
- Digital preservation. We securely store curated collections of digitised and born-digital material, safeguarding physical collections and future research material.
- Curating collections. Our team of information professionals curate material from our collections to bring together the raw materials for scholarly research.
- Charles Booth's London. We make available unique research material utilising geospatial data in innovative ways to tell stories through the maps and notebooks.
- Wikidata projects. We have linked unique LSE content in Wikidata, such as the LSE Theses Project, Suffrage Interviews Project and LSE Press.
- Online exhibitions. Through various platforms our staff and partners uncover and tell stories from our collections through engaging online exhibits.
- Developing metadata datasets. We're developing datasets to enable others to manipulate our metadata in new ways.
- Wikimedia. We're exploring the role of Wikimedia to support research visibility and incorporating research outputs into Wikipedia entries to reach new audiences.
- Artificial Intelligence. We're utilising AI for data analysis, cleaning and visualisation; for coding and automation, and for accessibility and transcription.
- LSE Digital Library. This key piece of research infrastructure enables us to present our digital collections in innovative ways with transcriptions and downloadable assets.
- IIIF-compliant viewer enabling innovative reuse and presentation of our content.
- The ability to download sets of metadata using OAI-PMH.
- Full-text search to help you discover information more quickly and effectively.
These are just some of the areas of digital scholarship we are currently working in. We are eager to learn more from our research community to understand how we can innovate together.
Useful resources
Exploring the potential of Wikimedia to support research visibility [PPT 4MB]