The Digital Research Incubator is a sixteen-week program designed to support the development of digital humanities and digital scholarship projects. Participants build foundational skills in digital humanities methods, including introductory Python programming to help scaffold and scale their research. The curriculum also covers strategies for securing grant funding and developing sustainable digital projects. Throughout the program, participants collaborate to form networks of expertise, offering mutual support and feedback as they develop and implement their projects.
In recent years, this program has included funding for participants to attend conferences and trainings or purchase software and materials for their digital projects. Funding has been used to enhance participants’ expertise in digital methods or to promote their projects to a wider audience.
In prior iterations, the incubator program (previously called “PEN & Inc”) provided participants with a custom web domain and dedicated support through CreateFSU, FSU Libraries’ web hosting service. CreateFSU is open to the whole FSU community. If you are interested in building a site without participating in the incubator program, email lib-create[at]fsu[dot]edu.
Pen & Inc was important for fostering a sense of scholarly community. I met researchers in other departments doing similar and related work, and I am not sure how I would have otherwise established these connections that will continue beyond the program itself.
Dr. Lindsey Eckert, Assistant Professor in the Department of English and 2022 PEN & Inc Participant.
Participant Accomplishments
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PEN & Inc Participant Featured at Conference on Black Health
Dr. Chris Omni, PhD, MPH (2022-2023 cohort) is a featured speaker at the State of Black Health Conference in San Juan Puerto Rico. Dr. Omni is presenting on the research and website she developed during her time in the PEN & Inc program. She is currently continuing her course of research at Florida State University…