Deadline: January 30, 2026
Application: https://forms.gle/mEn1rs3qz7TUqEEZ9
The Northeastern University Library’s Digital Scholarship Group (DSG) invites Northeastern faculty to submit project proposals for new research projects using the CERES Exhibit Toolkit. We also welcome proposals for using CERES in classroom assignments. The deadline for proposals is January 30, 2026 for projects beginning in the spring of 2026.
With CERES, you can create complex scholarly narratives and exhibits using websites that dynamically integrate images, text, video, and other digital materials into a range of page layouts and possibilities for contextualization, while keeping those base digital materials preserved in a long-lasting repository. Visit our projects page for a full list of sites and exhibits that have been built using CERES.
CERES is designed to be easy to use, and our goal is to empower you and members of your project team to be in control of your research and content. Accepted projects receive in-depth consultation and training, but we also expect project teams to provide labor for things like digitizing items or creating content for the website. The proposal process will include discussing with you ways to find sources of labor, so please don’t let a current lack of labor or funding be a barrier to application. If you already have work study positions or interns, that is a bonus.
CERES supports many different features and activities, including:
- Preservation and publication of long-term digital collections of primary source materials like documents, videos, letters, or interviews, such as The Harriet Tubman House Memory Project
- Classroom assignments where students contribute exhibits (singly or in groups) to a long-term cumulative space persisting from year to year, such as Literature and Digital Diversity [https://litdigitaldiversity.northeastern.edu/].
- Exploration and integration of items from other existing digital collections, like the Digital Public Library of America, expanding a project’s ability to investigate concepts across collections
- Creation of long-term online research portals and exhibits that couple contextual scholarly narratives with special interactive features like maps, timelines, or image carousels, such as Thoreau’s Journal Drawings or the Northeastern University History timeline
We place emphasis on projects that are collaborative, engage with communities (especially Boston-based), and have clear research or pedagogical impacts.
Join us for an info session at the November DH Open Office Hours on November 18, 2025 at 12:30 pm in the Centers for Digital Scholarship. If you are unable to attend the Open Office hours, please email us at dsg@northeastern.edu to schedule an individual consultation.
Applicants will be notified by mid-March and we will schedule planning meetings later in the spring semester. We are happy to meet with anyone interested in submitting a proposal to talk about possibilities. For more information, please contact us at dsg@northeastern.edu
We look forward to working with you!