Digital Services (DLC)
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University of Florida
P.O Box 117003
Gainesville, FL 32611 USA

P: 352.273.2900
F: 352.846.3702
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Digital Humanities Support

This page includes links to several resources for digital humanities research and projects. The Libraries support many digital humanities project through the UF Digital Collections and the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC). These provide the infrastructure for access and preservation of digital humanities projects. As the Digital Humanities Librarian, Laurie Taylor serves as the liaison for digital humanities support and collaborates with the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere to develop additional resources and support for digital humanities-related concerns, including: attribution on collaborative projects, supporting new forms of digital scholarship, and evaluation of digital humanities projects as scholarship.

Please contact the Digital Humanities Librarian, Laurie Taylor (Laurien@ufl.edu; 352.273.2902) with any questions or inquiries.

Digital Humanities: Upcoming Events

Calendar of Events from the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (full announcements for Digital Humanities Working Group Brown Bag Meetings)

Aggregated Resources at UF

Facilitated Peer Review Committee

The Facilitated Peer Review Committee is a new committee, beginning in 2012, to establish a model and use case for a facilitated peer review process. As it is currently envisioned, the committee will be akin to an editorial board for a journal that would facilitate, but not conduct, peer review. The committee will facilitate the process of sending materials to experts for peer review. The purpose of this committee is to establish this process for a specific use case and, in doing so, to establish this process as a model available for innovative forms of scholarship. The need for this has come up frequently for digital scholarship projects directly connected with the libraries and the UF Digital Collections as well as other forms of digital scholarship where support is needed from the Libraries.

The Facilitated Peer Review Committee website includes the charge, members, and additional information to document this model for general use and as it is applied to the specific use case.

Resources for Evaluation of Alternative Scholarly Works and Attribution

Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere
- Guidelines for Evaluating Alternative Scholarly Products
Modern Language Association
- Wiki on the Evaluation of Digital Work (Types, Guide to Evaluation, Stories, Documenting a New Media Case, FAQ, Resources)
- Guidelines for Evaluating Work with Digital Media in the Modern Languages (last reviewed 2002), states:
  - "Institutions and, when appropriate, departments should develop their own written guidelines so that faculty members engaged in research and teaching with digital media can be adequately and fairly evaluated and rewarded. Institutions should also take care to grant appropriate credit to faculty members for technology projects in teaching, research, and service, while recognizing that because many projects cross the boundaries between these traditional areas, faculty members should receive proportionate credit in more than one relevant area for their intellectual work. Written guidelines must provide clear directions for appointment, reappointment, merit increases, tenure, and promotion and should take into consideration the growing number of resources for evaluating digital scholarship. New guidelines for reappointment, tenure, and promotion appear regularly. The Committee on Information Technology recommends that those persons interested in such guidelines search for documents on evaluating work with digital media at comparable institutions. A keyword search in the .edu or .org domain might include technology and any of the following: tenure, scholarship, evaluation, promotion, peer review, and so on."
- Guiding Questions for Vetters of Scholarly Editions
- Workshop on Evaluating Digital Scholarship 2012
  - Report on the 2012 workshop in The Chronicle
  - MLA Wiki on the 2012 workshop
American Anthropological Association (AAA)
- AAA Guidelines for Evaluating Scholarship in the Realm of Practicing, Applied, and Public Interest Anthropology for Academic Promotion and Tenure
- American Anthropological Association Statement on Electronic Publishing, Adopted by AAA Executive Board on November 20, 2011
Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (ADFL):
- Evaluation of Nontraditional Fields
  "The curricula of departments of foreign languages continue to change and expand. The thrust toward interdisciplinary work and the study of new technological advances, broaden the legitimate areas of both teaching and research within a foreign language department. Department members may be involved in disciplines not traditionally considered integral parts of a foreign language department, such as area studies, creative writing, film studies, foreign language acquisition research, foreign language pedagogy, gender studies, and literary and technical translation. In questions of promotion, tenure, and salary, colleagues working in these fields should be evaluated using the same procedures and standards as those used for the more traditional fields but with proper consideration for the particular standards each discipline requires."
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, Evaluating Digital Scholarship Promotion & Tenure Criteria for Assessing Digital Research in the Humanities
Texas A&M, Initiative for the Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture (IDHMC)
- Promotion and Tenure for Digital Scholarship
- Evaluating Digital Scholarship
Imaging America
- Scholarship in Public: Knowledge Creation and Tenure Policy in the Engaged University: A Resource on Promotion and Tenure in the Arts, Humanities, and Design
  - Summary recommendations
    1. Define public scholarly and creative work.
    2. Develop policy based on a continuum of scholarship.
    3. Recognize the excellence of work that connects domains of knowledge.
    4. Expand what counts.
    5. Document what counts.
    6. Present what counts: use portfolios.
    7. Expand who counts: Broaden the community of peer review.
    8. Support publicly engaged graduate students and junior faculty.
    9. Build in flexibility at the point of hire.
    10. Promote public scholars to full professor.
    11. Organize the department for policy change.
    12. Take this report home and use it to start something.
Altmetrics
- Main site: http://altmetrics.org/
- Altmetrics tools
Attribution and Citation for Digital Humanities Projects
- Off the Tracks: Laying New Lines for Digital Humanities Scholars, includes the Collaborators' Bill of Rights (full, final report)
Models
- Journal of American History: Web site Reviews
- Online Exhibits as Scholarship from the Women Writers Project at Brown
  - Guidelines for Exhibit Authors
  - Peer Review and Scholarly Communication, where the review process consists of three stages: all submission reviewed by WWP editorial team for suitability. Response options appear to be reject, revise, or continue. Next step for continue appears to be review by one or more reviewers with expertise in the appropriate area. Revised submissions are reviewed again by the editorial team to ensure that they are in publishable form
- NINES for peer-review of digital resources and archives; reviewing for content and technologies
  - Submission process and form to request peer review
- Tenure case supported by Wikipedia editing at Auburn University at Montgomery (English and Philosophy Department)
- Tenure portfolio, done digitally with primarily digital scholarship
- New Media Department, University of Maine
  - Promotion and Tenure Guidelines Addendum: Rationale for Redefined Criteria, New Criteria for New Media
    - "Alternative recognition measures: Given the accessibility and timeliness required for new media research, the following measures of recognition should be prioritized in the evaluation of new media research candidates: 1. Invited / edited publications: Invitations to publish in edited electronic journals or printed magazines and books should be recognized as the kind of peer influence that in other fields would be signaled by acceptance in peer-reviewed journals." [emphasis added; notion of equivalancies]
  - Addendum
    - Under Research and Scholarly Activities, includes new media forms within existing categories:
      "1. Books/Monographs: Networked or rich-media publications such as extended blogs, DVDs, or CD-ROMS should be included if they constitute a sustained investigation of a particular topic.
      2. Refereed Journal Articles: In a new media context, a 'closed peer-review' article includes invited contributions to edited print journals and networked journals. The format of these contributions may go beyond the form of a written essay to include podcasts, videoblogs, and other forms of archival media. An 'open peer-review' article includes contributions to self-policing publication networks, where the quality or relevance of contributions are subject to community debate and evaluation.
      3. Chapters of Books/Monographs (please indicate if invited or juried): Essays or chapters in edited volumes are more important in new media than the sciences, for these edited volumes establish standards for discourse in emergent subdisciplines of new media. This category should also include invited contributions to edited, single-issue networked publications.
      4. Edited Volumes: This category includes coordinating or managing a multi-user discussion list, whether accessible via email or Web. This category also includes the conception, design, engineering, and/or editing of organized media collections, including film festivals , networked databases , and publications.
      5. Technical Reports/Book Reviews: This category includes networked reports and reviews.
      6. Other Publications (e.g. editorials, working papers, etc.): This category includes essays published to email lists, including all contributions to discussions sparked by the publication of that essay."
Articles
- "Valuing Digital Scholarship: Exploring the Changing Realities of Intellectual Work," by James P. Purdy and Joyce R. Walker, in Profession 2010, published by MLA
- Articles in the section on “Evaluating Digital Scholarship” in Profession 2011:
- "New Media in the Academy: Labor and the Production of Knowledge in Scholarly Multimedia" by Helen Burgess and Jeanne Hamming
- "On Tenure and Why Code Can't Speak for Itself" by Ryan Shaw (March 2012)

Additional UF & UF-Related Resources for the Digital Humanities

General
- Digital Humanities Working Group (being established 2011-2012)
- Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere
- UF Digital Collections and UF Libraries support
- Digital Worlds
- Art and Architecture Fab-Lab
- High-Performance Computing Center
Examples of existing UF faculty-related projects (to add to this developing list, please contact Laurie Taylor)
- Collaborative scholarly blogs and project sites:
  - Points: the Blog of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society
  - Freq.uenci.es: a collaborative genealogy of spirituality (post by UF faculty member; project statement)
- Databases
  - Academic Library Recruitment Study
- Scholar-curated digital collections:
- Scholar-curated online exhibits:
- Scholar-curated collections of teaching resources
  - Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC), teaching materials
  - Spanish Colonial St. Augustine, teaching materials
- Projects, tools, and related
  - Digital Epigraphy Toolbox
  - Second China
  - Center for Children's Literature and Culture (many projects, including Recess!)
  - Virtual Temple (about)
- Open Access peer reviewed journals
  - African Studies Quarterly (ASQ)
  - ImageTexT (journal, exhibits, and more)
  - Open Journal Systems (OJS), supported through the UF Libraries (more information)
- Groups
  - Digital Assembly (was the Game Studies Group) with the Futures of Digital Studies Conference in 2010
Research on and methods for scholarly communication
Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC)
- Partner contribution model
- Executive Board and Scholarly Advisory Board

Last modified: Tuesday April 10 2012 lnt

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