What is expected of a Fellow?
Fellows are expected to demonstrate their progress through engaging public and staff through
presentations, social media, blogs and other communications. Specifically the following deliverables
are required of each awarded Fellowship.
Deliverables
1. Deliver 2 internal workshops/demos (format to be determined by the nature of the
Fellowship itself) to Cultural Precinct staff on an aspect of their project. This can be conceptual, a demo
of digital tools and methods used, or something different in agreement with the Precinct lead.
The aim of these 2 workshops is to deliver value to internal staff and raise awareness of new
ways of working with digital collections.
2. Present a public lecture/workshop/demo of their work and publish a blog post about their
fellowship on the Collab website as part of the final delivery of the Fellowship.
3. Participate in various print, radio and social media promotions as deemed necessary
throughout the duration of the Fellowship.
4. Acknowledge the support of the Collab and the Digital Cultural Fellowship in
any further forums, presentations and publications resulting from the Fellowship.
5. Collab and the North Terrace Cultural Precinct is committed to actively show-casing outcomes of the Fellowship through appropriate avenues.
Intellectual Property
Fellows retain IP in any work produced as a result of the Fellowship and are strongly encouraged to
release their final output under an appropriate open licence.
Eligibility
Applicants must be over 18 years of age and can be at any stage of their career and from any
discipline.
Assessment process
Shortlisted applicants will be contacted by email within 2 weeks of the closing date.
The Fellowship will be announced on Tuesday 30 March 2021.
Applicants will need to deliver a working prototype their project and publish it to the Collab website at completion of the Fellowship. We will require that the underlying code be contributed to the Collab GitHub account.
Selection Criteria
Applicants should demonstrate the following:
– Ability to use digital cultural collections to address a problem or create a benefit
– Innovative thinking or application of digital tools and methods
– Relevance of the proposal to the Cultural Precinct or South Australian audiences
– Proven ability to deliver a digital product online
In addressing against the criteria above, the Judges will consider the following:
– Quality of the applicant’s research or creative bodies of work, relative to opportunity
– Strength of the concept and outcomes
– Clear articulation of the relevance to South Australian audiences
– Potential benefit to the Cultural Precinct and wider digital cultural heritage practice
– Capacity of the applicant to communicate processes and outcomes to a wider public
audience
Should you have any questions about the Fellowship or wish to discuss our digital collections in detail please contact:
Kristy Kokegei, Director Public Engagement: kkokegei@history.sa.gov.au