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"Digital Scholarship can be defined as any element of knowledge or art that is created, produced, analyzed, distributed, published, and/or displayed in a digital medium, for the purpose of research or teaching."
--- Kirsten Foot, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of Washington

This site is devoted to promoting the understanding and support of digital scholarship at the University of Washington.

Digital scholarship has many dimensions and may be defined as:

any element of knowledge or art that is created, produced, analyzed, distributed and/or displayed in a digital medium for the purpose of research or teaching;
the creation of digital technology, tools and services to solve problems in scholarship; or
the study and analysis of digital information, resources and culture.

Other terms that have been applied to these new emerging forms of scholarship include "new model scholarship" and "thematic research collection."

Much of this scholarship may never be formally published, but is a natural evolution and adaptation of digital technology to scholarship. It demands new models of support, management and preservation.