[SDH/SEMI Members] disciplinary standards in digital humanities

[Ray Siemens]

Hi Brent,
 
You might consider some of the materials we put together for a workshop at
the most recent MLA.  The URL for those materials is
http://www.mla.org/resources/documents/rep_it/dig_eval.  I'll attach a
description of the workshop below.
 
All best,
 
Ray
 
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Evaluating Digital Work for Tenure and Promotion:
A Workshop for Evaluators and Candidates
This page provides resources for the 2008 MLA convention session
"Evaluating Digital Work for Tenure and Promotion: A Workshop for
Evaluators and Candidates," sponsored by the MLA Ad Hoc Committee on the
Structure of the Annual Convention in conjunction with the MLA Committee
on Information Technology.
 
Presiding: Robert James Blake, Univ. of California, Davis; Raymond G.
Siemens, Univ. of Victoria
 
Description: Do you know how to assess effectively digital work for
promotion and tenure? Do you know how to prepare your dossier so that your
digital work can be effectively assessed? This three-hour workshop will
offer discussion of case studies (including CVs, digital projects, and
supporting materials) and identification of effective evaluation
strategies and guidelines. The workshop will be limited to thirty
participants so that there will be ample time for facilitated discussion.
Our facilitators have extensive experience in the evaluation of digital
literary scholarship and of work in computer-assisted language learning.
 
 
> I am drafting language for our departmental standards document that will
> explain the nature of digital humanities projects, describe their
> particular nature and value, and establish some guidelines for
> evaluating and establishing merit, all of this over against the more
> standard forms of publication in our discipline.
> 
> I know this comes up again and again in discussions at digital
> humanities conference, and I know the MLA has tried to tackle this issue
> in their 2006 report.  But does anyone know of any particular
> documentation that has been put together for departmental, college, or
> university standards documents?   Or is there a forum where these sort
> of standards have been discussed?
> 
> Sincerely hoping for answers,
> 
> Brent Nelson
> 
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