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Building a Project

Make your idea a reality. This guide should help those in the building stage develop their project, connect with available resources, and establish a community.

1. Build Digital Skills

It’s possible you don’t yet have all the skills required to build your project. Fortunately, there are a number of ways to change that at CUNY and beyond.

2. Fund Your Work/Training

Learn about various options at CUNY and externally for securing funding for an array of digital projects, training, and resources.

3. Establish Community

Having a community to troubleshoot with, bounce ideas off, and even learn with can help keep you inspired and motivated. And, being part of a larger scholarly community has career-level benefits. We’ve collected a few suggested starting places for finding like-minded scholars.

4. Help Your Advisor Support You

Digital dissertations can be new to advisors too. This guide offers resources to help you and your advisor navigate this space.


Want a different view–alternatively? See the resources from each guide as one large consolidated list.