This archive preserves descriptions, programs, and materials relating to each of the preceding Scholarly Communication Institutes. Information about historical leadership of SCI, including former director Richard Lucier and past members of the steering committee, is available here.

SCI 7 (2009) Spatial Technologies and Methodologies

SCI 7 focused on spatial technologies and methodologies—the specific modes of working they favor, the scholarly practices they enhance, and the infrastructure they demand to achieve scale and significance. Also considered were visualizations such as virtual modeling and concept mapping, as appropriate. SCI 7 brought together accomplished scholars from the humanities and social sciences, as well as leaders in information technology and data stewardship, to explore the range of these technologies and their promise to advance humanities scholarship.{More}

SCI 6 (2008) Humanities Research Centers

SCI 6 assembled a group of recognized scholars and pioneers in digital scholarship, leaders in the humanities, and program officers from funding agencies interested in advancing digital scholarship through a reflection upon experiences of the broader scholarly community, the evolution of humanities scholarship, and examples of ‘national models’ for centers of excellence. {More}

SCI 5 (2007) Visual Studies

Visual media, i.e. motion pictures, photography, video, 3-D images, simulations, and new media artworks, are having profound effects on scholarship. SCI 5 brought together several accomplished scholars from the humanities and sciences, including both theorists and practitioners, focusing primarily on ‘visual scholars’, those who utilize the visual in all facets of scholarly communication, from research and analysis to communicating their scholarship to others. {More}

SCI 4 (2006) Architectural History

SCI 4 2006 focused on the discipline of architectural history. Participants explored the promises of new information technologies to represent more accurately the visual and spatial domains of the built environment. {More}

SCI 3 (2005) Digital Humanities

The third SCI in 2005 focused on those who had extensive digital experience in the humanities and attempted to address the challenge of sustainability by developing institutional strategies that would support on-going digital scholarship. {More}

SCI 2 (2004) Practical Ethics

The second SCI, held at the University of Virginia in 2004, convened institutional teams (senior scholars, junior scholar/graduate student, University administrator and librarian) to focus on opportunities for innovation in digital scholarship in a specific field: Practical Ethics. {More}

SCI 1 (2003) Goals and Strategies

The first three Scholarly Communication Institutes (SCI), 2003-2005, were designed to explore opportunities for advancing innovation in digital scholarly communication and to catalyze digital scholarship and start to build the core infrastructure to support it in the arts and humanities. {More}