Digital research projects require extensive planning and there are many considerations to consider when you’re first thinking about the project. Digital research projects are best planned when you have the end in mind, such as: What are your research questions? What do you want your project to look like? What information should it share? What impact would you like it to have? Planning also includes the practical: Who is in charge of this project and who will maintain it moving forward? What will that maintenance look like and what will it need?
Remember that digital research, like any research, is first about engaging critically with and offering interpretation of scholarly arguments your field. Your research will inform any methods or tools, not the other way around.
Visualizing Objects, Places, and Spaces: A Digital Project Handbook: This guide provides an excellent place to start when thinking about a digital research project. It includes information about various types of projects you might want to undertake, and what resources and knowledge you’ll need to do that kind of project.
Emory’s Project Management for the Digital Humanities Guide: This guide provides step-by-step instructions for conceptualizing, staring, and finishing a digital research project. This guide is focused on projects in the Humanities.
DevDH: Development for the Digital Humanities: This comprehensive collection of lectures provides in-depth information about the different stages of a digital research project. Topics include translating research questions into digital projects, forming project teams, crafting budgets, applying for funding, and more.
How Did They Make That? and How Did They Make That? The Video! by Miriam Posner: These resources present different digital research projects and what you’ll need to know to start a similar type of project.
A collection of books, journal articles, case studies, videos and reference materials published by SAGE Publications on research methods and design. Includes Sage Research Video; Market Research; Practical Research and Academic Skills; Data Science, Big Data Analytics and Digital Methods; Deversifying and Decolonizing Research; Medicine and Health; Data Visualization; and Doing Research Online.