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Become a member of the Digital Scholarship team! DS interns will work together with Digital Scholarship staff to build digital projects requested by Penn faculty, students, and researchers. Past projects include Python/Django web applications and databases for faculty research projects, custom PHP templates, plugins, and themes for Content Management Systems such as Omeka and Scalar, and web-mapping projects.

All interns receive training in command line, Git, and the languages necessary to complete their projects!

Students of any program and background are encouraged to apply! We do not require a CS background, but we do require an interest in learning!

Digital Scholarship Summer Internship

The DS Summer Internship allows students to train and work in a team environment. Students work for 35 hrs/week, Mon-Fri on large scale development and design projects. Hiring for these positions begins in April.

Digital Scholarship Academic Year Internship & Workstudy Positions

The DS Academic Year Internship allows students to work directly with a DS team staff member to support course-integrated projects and long-term design and development. Students work on average 8-10 hrs/wk with a maximum of 20 hrs/week. Scheduling is flexible, but must overlap with the assigned staff member. Hiring for these positions begins in August and December.

Sample Position Descriptions

Digital Humanities Assistant Developer

The assistant developer will work with the Digital Scholarship team in the library to develop software solutions for University researchers, students, and professors. This may include development of web interfaces/applications or modification of existing open source software to meet unique research needs. The developer should be able to work together with a team to produce creative solutions based on user stories. The ideal applicant has experience working with Python. The applicant should be familiar with or willing to learn the following platforms/languages:

  • PHP
  • JavaScript
  • HTML & CSS
  • Git

Digital Humanities Interactive Web Publishing Intern

The web development intern will work with the Digital Scholarship team in the library to aide university researchers, students, and professors to create web portals to their data and research projects. The applicant should be familiar with or willing to learn web publishing and programming languages such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP for use in projects including:

  • Data visualizations
  • Interactive maps and timelines
  • Dynamic web applications
  • Visual essays

Digital Humanities Graphic & Web Design Intern

The design intern will work with the Digital Scholarship team to design and implement interfaces for team projects. This may include creating style templates in response to project owner design interviews, editing or redesigning general web application interface templates, creating data visualizations, and working with project developers to implement their designs. The ideal applicant has previous design graphic experience. The applicant should be familiar with or willing to learn the following platforms/languages:

  • HTML, CSS, Javascript
  • Git