The Digital Scholarship and Curriculum Center (DSCC), established in 2001 with a grant from The Keel Foundation, is located in the Technology Commons on the lower level of Shain Library (room A-29). If you need to use the Center at a specific time, or need assistance with your project, contact Lyndsay Bratton.
The DSCC provides faculty with high-end technologies and support to create and edit digital course materials and projects in teaching and research. Gerard Gadigian can provide in-class training for courses that will be using Audacity, iMovie, Adobe Premiere, or other audio/video editing software for course projects.
Assistant Director for Digital Scholarship Lyndsay Bratton supports digital scholarship, including organizing, advising, and documenting digital research projects by faculty and students. You can view our online digital scholarship projects here.
The DSCC staff, along with the rest of the Research Support and Curricular Technology team, support the Diane Y. Williams '59 Visualization Wall, the Recording Studio (Shain 309), the Kaltura video hosting platform (including MediaSpace), and the evaluation and use of podcasting, screencasting, wikis, blogs and other emerging technologies to supplement Moodle, the college's learning management system.
Instruction and support on the use of the equipment and technology in the DSCC and the Recording Studio is provided as needed throughout production. Part-time DS student assistants may be available to work on digital scholarship and GIS projects for faculty during the academic year.
The following services are provided by the DSCC:
A/V Equipment
In addition to the Recording Studio (located in Shain 309), the following audio and video equipment can be borrowed by faculty for short-term use.
Cameras
- Meeting Owl Pro (external camera/mic for online meetings)
- Canon XA35 camcorder
- Canon EOS 7D DSLR camera
- Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM lens
- Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM wide angle lens
- Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 is II USM telephoto zoom lens
- GoPro HD Hero3 Camera
- Samsung Gear 360 camera
- Mevo Pro remote 4k camera (2)
Microphones
- Blue Yeti multi-pattern USB microphone
- Zoom HD6 , HD4, & HD1 handheld audio recorders
- Zoom iQ5, iQ6, iQ7 iPhone/iPad/iPod mics
- Røde i-XY iPhone/iPad/iPod mic
- iRig Mic Cast mic (Android and iOS devices)
- Lavalier mics (wired and wireless)
Lighting
- ARRI 300 Plus tungsten Fresnel spotlight
- Apurture MC multicolor LED
- Photoflex Starlite softbox light
- Photoflex MultiDisc 5-in-1 reflector
Accessories
- Apogee Duet 2 IN x 4 OUT Audio Interface
- Blackmagic UltraStudio Mini Recorder (2)
- Elgato Game Capture HD
- Osmo Mobile 2 mobile phone gimbal
- Monopod
- Tripods
Other Equipment
We also have some other equipment available to faculty for short-term use.
- Apple Mac & iOS adapters (power, video, Thunderbolt, USB-C, Mini-DVI, HDMI)
- Garmin Oregon 650t handheld GPS
- Google Glass
- Intel Compute Stick
- M-Audio KeyRig 49-key keyboard
- Wireless headphones for use at the Diane Y. Williams '59 Visualization Wall
Scanning & Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
Our document scanning equipment can be used to create graphic files, PDFs, or editable text documents.
Scanning software
- Lasersoft SilverFast Ai Studio 8
- Epson Scan
OCR software
- ABBY FineReader (Macintosh)
PDF software
- Adobe Acrobat DC
- Evermap Autobookmark plugin (Windows)
Document scanners
- Epson Expression 10000 XL flatbed (11”x17”)
- Epson Perfection V850 Pro flatbed (8.5”x14”)
- Epson ES-400 autofeed (8.5”x11”)
- Plustek OptiBook 4800 book scanner
Film & Slide Scanners
- Epson Perfection V850 Pro (35mm film, 35mm slides, and some larger film formats)
- Film light table
Video Digitizing & Editing
Our video equipment can be used to digitize copyright-free video content for any use, including burning it to DVD or Blu-ray disc.
Formats Supported
- DVDs
- Region 2 DVDs supported
- DVD burners available
- Blu-ray discs
- Bu-ray burner available
Video software
- Editing software
- Apple Final Cut Pro X
- Apple Compressor
- Apple Motion
- Apple iMovie
- Adobe Premiere Pro
- Apple Final Cut Pro X
- Screen Capture software
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- Apple QuickTime X
- TechSmith Camtasia
- Telestream Screenflow
- Handbrake (video transcoder)
- Roxio Toast Titanium Pro 19 (optical disc buring)
Audio Digitizing & Editing
Our audio equipment, which is connected to an Apogee Ensemble Thunderbolt audio interface, can be used to digitize copyright-free audio content for any use, including burning it to CD. Copyright-protected audio from the Shain Library collection can be digitized only if it is to be uploaded to the Kaltura video hosting service and used in Moodle for use in a specific course.
Formats Supported
- Vinyl LPs, EPs, 45rpms, and 78rpms
- Audio cassettes
Audio software
- Digital Audio Workstaton (DAW) software
- Apple Logic X
- Avid ProTools
- Adobe Audition
- Ableton Live Suite
- Audio plug-ins
- Apple MainStage
- Rogue Amoeba Fission
- Rogue Amoeba Audio Hijack
- Scorewriting software
- Avid Sibelius Ultimate
- Neuratron AudioScore Ultimate
- Neuratron PhotoScore and NotateMe Ultimate
- SuperMegaUltraGroovy Capo
Computer Workstations
We have 3 computer workstations in the DSCC. The two Mac Pros are connected to the video equipment rack, the iMac Pro is connected to the audio equipment rack and an Epson Perfection V850 Pro flatbed document/film scanner, and the iMac running Windows is connected to our large flatbed scanner, document feed scanner, and book scanner. All have the full suite of Adobe Creative Cloud software, Microsoft Office, as well as other applications for the devices connected to them.
- Mac Studio (2022) (64GB RAM) w/27" 4k display running macOS 12 Monterey(video workstation)
- Mac Pro 2013 (32GB RAM) w/27” 4k display running macOS 12 Monterey (audio/scanning workstation)
- iMac 5k 2019 27" (128GB RAM) dual boot Windows 10 & macOS 12 Monterey (scanning & Nvivo workstation)
Software
In addition to the scanning, video, and audio applications listed in the above sections, the following software is also available on the DSCC computer workstations.
- Adobe Creative Cloud Suite
- ArcGIS (mapping and geographic analysis - Windows-only)
- Nvivo (qualitative data analysis - Mac & Windows - limited to 2 users at a time)
- ATLAS.ti (qualitative data analysis - Windows only)
- Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint - MS Access Windows-Only)
- Apple iWork (Keynote, Numbers, Pages - Mac-only)
- STATA (statistical - Mac only)
Video Streaming
We have the following hardware and software that can be used to produce a live streamed event.
Video Switchers
Hardware Encoders
Software Encoders
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- Supports most video hosting sites except the college's LiveStream.com account
- OBS (Open Broadcaster Software)
- Supports most video hosting sites except the college's LiveStream.com account