Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities

Our Facilities

The RCH facilities include a Projects Office and a "Digital Research Incubator" (research lab) in Rooms 3-51 and 3-52 of the William T. Young Library at the University of Kentucky. Designed for flexible configuration, the facilities are ideal for concentrated workshop sessions, as well as extended project work, and can accommodate work groups up to 10, or multiple smaller project teams.

The Digital Research Incubator is an open collaborative space equipped with four networked workstations (PC and Mac), printers, scanners, a ceiling mounted data projector and white board, and a conference table. Its multiple uses include project team work sessions and meetings, multimedia presentations, and teleconferencing with off-site collaborators.

The Projects Office includes two semi-private workstations (PC and Mac), bookshelves, storage lockers, and small-group meeting space. Project teams can use this space as a "headquarters" for development work, keeping project materials and resources on location for shared use by the team.

Both rooms are connected through a local area network with a domain controller that serves roaming profiles to the PCs on the network and which houses share folders for user accounts on both the PCs and Macs. The RCH is additionally equipped with a development server and web server for the production and dissemination of project materials.

Research teams engaged in digital projects affiliated with the RCH can check out keys to the Projects Office and Research Incubator for use of the facilities for the duration of their project work.

The RCH underwent a substantial equipment and network upgrade in summer 2009. Thanks to the support of the Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments and Systems Administrator Chris Campbell, the workstations and servers have been refreshed and the internal network has been rebuilt and enhance. The last equipment upgrade was undertaken in 2003 with the generous support of the Provost's Office, the Vice President for Fiscal Affairs and Information Technology, the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies, and the Dean of Arts & Sciences.