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Staff at the Scholars' Lab are available to help faculty and students with the development of scholarly electronic projects by providing project consultation and support.

Users interested in developing electronic text, statistical database or geospatial projects and collections will find able and experienced staff to help identify appropriate technologies, methodologies, and resources for accomplishing their goals.

We can help you:

• plan projects that make use of textual, spatial or statistical data and analysis
• locate and access specific text and data resources
• download and/or translate datasets
• create subsets or aggregations of datasets
• get data into formats suitable for a GIS or statistical software package
• use GIS software to create maps for display or analysis
• scan maps or aerial photographs
• develop web-based tools to display information

For consultation and help, please contact the Scholars' Lab to schedule an appointment.

See the following list for some of the projects the Scholars' Lab has helped faculty and graduate students to develop:

Select Faculty Projects

• The Salem Witchcraft Trials
  Author: Ben Ray
  Department: Religious Studies


• The Valley of the Shadow Project
  Authors: Edward Ayers and Will Thomas
  Department: Virginia Center for Digital History


• The Religious Freedom Page
  Author: Jeffrey Hadden
  Department: Sociology


• The Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library
  Author: David Germano
  Departments:Religious Studies/Library


• Data Set on National Court Compliance with ECJ Decisions in EU Preliminary Reference Cases, 1958-2000
  Author: Stacy A. Nyikos
  Department: Politics


• Geographies of Family and Market: Virginia's Domestic Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century
  Author: Phil Troutman
  Department: History


• The Virginia State Elected Officials Database Project
  Author: Charles A. Kromkowski
  Department: Politics


• Latviešu Tautas Dziesmas (Latvian Dainas),
  Author: Maruta Ray
  Department: Germanic Languages & Literature


• Collective Biographies of Women: An Annotated Bibliography
  Author: Alison Booth
  Department: English


• Patients' Voices in Early 19th Century Virginia
  Department: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library