Digital scholarship is an inherently collaborative activity, and our work would not be possible without collaborators. DiSA is enriched and advanced through ongoing partnerships at UBC and beyond. Listed below are some of our frequent collaborators and the kinds of work we do together.
SFU Digital Humanities Innovation Lab
From 2024-2026, this partnership brings together SFU Library’s Digital Humanities Innovation Lab (DHIL) and the UBC Digital Scholarship in the Arts Initiative (DiSA) to provide extended consultation support in Digital Scholarship, with a focus on TEI-XML projects, to the UBC community. The partnership combines the infrastructure and mission of the SFU Library with the academic expertise and vision of researchers across both institutions in order to advance digital scholarship at SFU, UBC and beyond. With a specific mandate to assist with the development of doctoral projects associated with the PhD CoLab-funded Adaptive TEI Network (ATN): Antiracist, Decolonial, and Inclusive Markup Interventions, the ATN serves as an experimental pilot project for the partnership.
Visit the DiSA-DHIL GitHub for the Adaptive TEI Network pilot projects.
UBC Library Research Commons
As a founding partner of DiSA, the UBC Library Research Commons collaborates on events, workshop creation and delivery, and the training and mentorship of Graduate Academic Assistants. Additionally, alongside DiSA, we are the first point of contact when providing consultations for faculty and student research in computational and digital scholarship. The Research Commons is also a core contributor to the DiSA-DHIL partnership, providing extended support for TEI-XML projects across UBC campus.
UBC Library Digitization Centre
DiSA works with the UBC Library Digitization Centre to recognize capacities of support for Faculty of Arts dissemination formats into Open Collections. For example, from 2024-2025, DiSA funded a graduate student assistant at the o digitize Periodico Unión Cívica (1961–1962), a Spanish-language semi-weekly newspaper that exposes the crimes of the dictatorship of Rafael L. Trujillo Molina (1930-1961) and advocates for democracy and freedom in the Dominican Republic. Due to this collaboration, the newspaper is now accessible via Open Collections. Periodico Unión Cívica is part of the Adaptive TEI Network and will eventually be encoded in TEI-XML.
Public Humanities Hub
The Public Humanities Hub (PHH) was a founding DiSA collaborator. PHH and DiSA co-sponsor the Adaptive TEI Network to advance TEI-XML activities, support, and research collaboration in Canada and abroad under the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) inaugural initiatives “Human Craft in the Age of Digital Technologies” and “Global Justice and Humanities Practices.”
Arts Instructional Support and Information Technology
DiSA and Arts Instructional Support and Information Technology Unit (Arts ISIT) work together on supporting faculty with technology needs and research into development areas, such as co-hosting a visioning workshop with Classroom Services to imagine expanded possibilities for faculty who teach courses that use a variety of technologies and tech media in their research methods and modalities.