It's easy to think of data as something that lives in spreadsheets, but it rarely starts—or ends—there. Join four UW–Madison faculty who work where the digital meets the physical: digitizing thousand-year-old manuscripts, building knowledge graphs for regional food systems, studying how scientific visuals move public opinion, and uncovering the information embedded in everyday objects. Together, they explore what the relationship between data and the physical world reveal about both.

The Digital Scholarship Hub @UW is a place where people come together to explore how technology can help us understand the world and improve it. It brings librarians, researchers, students, artists, and community members into one shared space to learn, create, and solve problems using digital tools.