Welcome to Emory Center for Digital Scholarship.

The Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) is a collaborative research center that creates innovative, sustainable models of digital scholarship and publication for public and academic use. Since our formation in 2013 we have worked with faculty, staff, students, partner institutions, and not-for-profit organizations to advance research, pedagogy, and outreach through digital tools and methods.

Welcome to Emory Center for Digital Scholarship.

The Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) is a collaborative research center that creates innovative, sustainable models of digital scholarship and publication for public and academic use. Since our formation in 2013 we have worked with faculty, staff, students, partner institutions, and not-for-profit organizations to advance research, pedagogy, and outreach through digital tools and methods.

Learn From Us

Looking to learn a new skill or sharpen some old ones? Come visit us for a workshop or some one-on-one guidance.

Teach With Us

Education is at the heart of what we do. Let’s work together to enhance the student experience.

Create Together

Our staff of experts are always looking for new projects to collaborate on. Let us help you articulate your research and findings.

Learn From Us

Looking to learn a new skill or sharpen some old ones? Come visit us for a workshop or some one-on-one guidance.

Teach With Us

Education is at the heart of what we do. Let’s work together to enhance the student experience.

Create Together

Our staff of experts are always looking for new projects to collaborate on. Let us help you articulate your research and findings.

Featured Projects

Southern Spaces

Southern Spaces is a multimedia, open access journal that publishes thoughtful articles, photo essays, reviews, interviews, short videos, and monographs about real and imagined regions, spaces, and places of the US South, the Global South, and their interconnections.

OpenTour Builder

OpenTour Builder is an open-source web-app for building cultural and educational walking and driving tours, using a smartphone’s built-in GPS and Google Maps instructions. With OpenTour, tour builders can easily create interactive, attractive tours, optimized for mobile devices, with a variety of media at each stop.

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Georgia Coast Atlas

The Georgia Coast Atlas project redefines the traditional atlas by leveraging digital scholarship to explore the ecological and geographic dimensions of the Georgia coast. The Atlas aims to create an engaging, accessible website that serves as a valuable resource for educators, conservationists, students, and the general public.

Readux

Readux offers a customizable interface to publish collections of digitized print materials. Individuals and institutions use Readux to publish collections of sacred songbooks, emblem books, Roman maps, materials from space missions, and more. Teachers, researchers, and the public can browse and search these materials, comment on the works, and publish their own digital editions.

OpenWorld Atlanta

OpenWorld Atlanta (OWA) utilizes digital tools to collect, analyze, and disseminate data about Atlanta’s history and present. The OWA Research and Learning Hub connects various digital projects, neighborhood spaces, and community organizations by aggregating them into a single platform.

Manifold

Since 2018, ECDS has supported digital publishing and open-access scholarship through the Manifold platform, which now features 37—and counting—publications from faculty across diverse backgrounds. ECDS provides guidance in design, development, and maintenance to help faculty achieve their digital publishing goals.

Southern Spaces

Southern Spaces is a multimedia, open access journal that publishes thoughtful articles, photo essays, reviews, interviews, short videos, and monographs about real and imagined regions, spaces, and places of the US South, the Global South, and their interconnections.

OpenTour Builder

OpenTour Builder is an open-source software platform, created by ECDS, for building geospatial tours that are optimized for mobile devices. With this tool, tour builders can easily create interactive, attractive tours using their smartphone’s GPS and OpenTour Builder’s native Google Maps instructions. At each location, the designer can include images, video, audio, interactive elements, text, and external links to provide historical and cultural context, tying that information to the physical space.

Georgia Coast Atlas

The Georgia Coast Atlas project redefines the traditional atlas by leveraging digital scholarship to explore the ecological and geographic dimensions of the Georgia coast. The Atlas aims to create an engaging, accessible website that serves as a valuable resource for educators, conservationists, students, and the general public.

Readux

Readux offers a customizable interface to publish collections of digitized print materials. Individuals and institutions use Readux to publish collections of sacred songbooks, emblem books, Roman maps, materials from space missions, and more. Teachers, researchers, and the public can browse and search these materials, comment on the works, and publish their own digital editions.

OpenWorld Atlanta

OpenWorld Atlanta (OWA) utilizes digital tools to collect, analyze, and disseminate data about Atlanta’s history and present. The OWA Research and Learning Hub connects various digital projects, neighborhood spaces, and community organizations by aggregating them into a single platform.

Manifold

Since 2018, ECDS has supported digital publishing and open-access scholarship through the Manifold platform, which now features 37—and counting—publications from faculty across diverse backgrounds. ECDS provides guidance in design, development, and maintenance to help faculty achieve their digital publishing goals.

Upcoming ECDS Events