[SDH/SEMI Members] disciplinary standards in digital humanities

[Allison Muri]

Hi Brent,

There are some pretty good guidelines approved by UVic
"Report On Academic Computing Recognition"
http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Foyer/CompRecog.html

See also: "Evaluating Digital Humanities Resources: The LAIRAH Project  
Checklist and the Internet Shakespeare Editions Project" at http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/4806/ 
.



The University of Virginia Office of the Dean document on "Evaluating  
Digital Scholarship, Promotion & Tenure Cases"
http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/dean/facultyemployment/evaluating_digital_scholarship.html


This site provides a link to Mount Holyoke College's "Guidelines for  
Evaluating Faculty Research, Teaching and Community Service in the  
Digital Age"
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/committees/facappoint/guidelines.shtml



Also, University of Nebraska, Lincoln's Center for Digital Research in  
the Humanities has a great page with helpful links, "Promotion &  
Tenure Criteria for Assessing Digital Research in the Humanities"
http://cdrh.unl.edu/articles/promotion_and_tenure.php



The American Associaton for History and Computing has done some work  
in this area. See:
"Suggested Guidelines for Evaluating Digital Media Activities in  
Tenure, Review, and Promotion Introduction" posting
http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=H-Albion&month=0012&week=b&msg=wWhZMfxG/YvT3mmZCRbnuQ&user=&pw=

...and the book Digital Scholarship in the Tenure, Promotion, and  
Review Process, Edited by Deborah Lines Andersen, State University of  
New York, Albany (2004)
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/utis/2004/00000020/00000005/art00011

It can also be previewed on Google Books:
http://books.google.com/books?id=KpxeB42RjeEC&dq=Digital+Scholarship+in+the+Tenure,+Promotion,+and+Review+Process&source=bn&ei=-4KoSbGaJIKOsQPW_YzZDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=book-thumbnail

The bibliography in this book is pretty helpful.



The report 'Our Cultural Commonwealth: The Report of the ACLS  
Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social  
Sciences" notes that

"policies for tenure and promotion that recognize and reward digital  
scholarship and scholarly communication; recognition should be given  
not only to scholarship that uses the humanities and social science  
cyberinfrastructure but also to scholarship that contributes to its  
design, construction, and growth."

I think this is a very important point to include in language re.  
tenure and promotion: design, construction, and maintenance of digital  
projects is rarely considered -- at least in my experience -- as part  
of the academic merit of a digital humanities project, especially by  
those who do not do this kind of work. It's invisible.



See also:
"Tenure, Promotion and Digital Publication" by Joseph Raben in Digital  
Humanities Quarterly (2007)
http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/001/1/000006.html



Cheers,
Allison


....................................................
Allison Muri

Department of English
University of Saskatchewan
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Saskatoon, SK, Canada  S7N 5A5
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ph: 306.966.5503




On 27-Feb-09, at 5:47 PM, Brent Nelson wrote:

> 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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