There are a few different categories of exhibits that Pitt community members may curate on the Digital Research Wall, including: 

• Individual project spotlight (for example, faculty or graduate research projects)
• Collection of student work (for example, projects from an undergraduate class or internship program)
• Window into research (visual artifacts that make the research or creative process more accessible and engaging)

Wall exhibits may share the results of completed research, but they can also represent in-progress research projects as well. 

The process of proposing and developing a new digital wall exhibit can take up to 6-8 weeks from start to finish, depending on the scale of the exhibit and any media that may need to be created or customized for the exhibit. 

The process follows these steps: 

1. An expression of interest for a new exhibit is received by the library 
2. Initial 30-minute consultation is scheduled by library staff to discuss the scope and technical feasibility of the proposed exhibit 
3. For projects identified as in-scope, the exhibit creator fills out the exhibit proposal form 
4. Exhibit proposal is reviewed by library administrators (review may take up to 2 weeks)
5. For accepted proposals, a 1-hour exhibit template training session is scheduled by library staff with the exhibit creator to explain the and media formats
6. Exhibit creator submits their exhibit text and media assets
7. Content review and Technical review are performed
8. Soft launch (final review with or without exhibit creators)
9. Exhibit goes live, joining the current rotation of exhibits, for agreed-upon duration (minimum 1 semester, maximum 2 years)

The following criteria are used in order to evaluate all exhibit proposals that are received:

Requirements: 
•    The exhibit is produced by a Pitt affiliate. In cases of group work, a single Pitt affiliate is responsible for acting as lead contact for the exhibit creators. 
•    The exhibit highlights research or creative work developed at Pitt.
•    The exhibit is framed to be compelling and intelligible to a non-specialist audience. 
•    The content of the proposed exhibit is technically suitable for the capabilities of the digital wall, including the feasibility of preparing assets to meet the wall’s specific technical requirements. 
•    The exhibit creator has the legal right to display the submitted digital assets (this requirement could be met by a Fair Use assessment performed in consultation with ULS).
•    The exhibit accurately credits all labor involved in its development (exhibit creators are not permitted to publish an exhibit that someone else worked on any portion of without explicitly crediting all collaborators, including students).

Recommendations: 
•    The exhibit uses or showcases emerging forms of scholarship or tangible outputs of digital pedagogy. 
•    The exhibit links to project data, related websites, and/or publications. It is preferred that related information is available under Open Access terms. 
•    The exhibit’s content lends itself to the interactive, exploratory, and/or large-scale nature of the wall; exhibit media should enhance user understanding of the research (not just a chart with findings but multimedia about the research process).