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NINES Summer Workshops: Emerging Issues in Digital Scholarship

2013

In 2010, NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-century Electronic Scholarship) at the University of Virginia was awarded a 2-year NEH IATDH grant to host a series of summer institutes focused on the issues surrounding the professional evaluation of digital scholarship in the humanities, with particular attention to peer review and the promotion-and-tenure process. The first of these institutes was held May 30-June 3, 2011 at the University of Virginia. Twenty-three participants from a range of public and private colleges and universities convened for a week of threaded discussions, roundtables, and presentations. The discussions were facilitated by the project leaders (Laura Mandell, Susan Schreibman, and Andrew Stauffer), along with two other instructors, Amy Earhart from Texas A&M and Andrew Jewell from the University of Nebraska. Keynote presentations by Bethany Nowviskie and David Germano, both from the University of Virginia, augmented the formal programming. Discussion cohorts were organized around five keywords of scholarship, and asked participants to discuss their varying nature in print and digital environments. The keywords were Conceptualization, Evidence & Discovery, Remediation, Interpretation, and Communication. During the sessions, participants wrote in online collaborative note-taking spaces, and these evolving documents were the basis for later work. All participants were part of conversations related to these keywords, and the sessions culminated in a series of roundtables addressing the challenges and opportunities of digital scholarship in these areas.

CURATING THE CAMPUS, CURATING CHANGE: A collection of eight vignettes

2016

As librarians, we select, collect, integrate, and manage diverse forms of information. Imagine if we apply this foundation in a new context: partnerships across the campus environment. In buildings all around us, students and faculty are using, sharing, and creating knowledge. This presents a tremendous opportunity for us to venture forth and empower our communities. Vignettes include: classroom building, research building, labs, studios, exhibits & displays, atriums & lobbies, living learning community, and incubators. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/73191

Cultivating Change in the Academy: Practicing the Art of Hosting Conversations that Matter within the University of Minnesota

2013

Ebook published independently by University of Minnesota authors practicing the Art of Hosting Conversations that Matter to transform their teaching, research and outreach at the University of Minnesota. Cultivating Change in the Academy: Practicing the Art of Hosting Conversations that Matter within the University of Minnesota is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial- ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. The companion website for the eBook is available, at: https://cultivatingchange.wp.d.umn.edu/hostingconversations/.

Curated Collections for Educators: Five Key Papers on Evaluating Digital Scholarship

Cureus, 2018

Traditionally, scholarship that was recognized for promotion and tenure consisted of clinical research, bench research, and grant funding. Recent trends have allowed for differing approaches to scholarship, including digital publication. As increasing numbers of trainees and faculty turn to online educational resources, it is imperative to critically evaluate these resources. This article summarizes five key papers that address the appraisal of digital scholarship and describes their relevance to junior clinician educators and faculty developers. In May 2017, the Academic Life in Emergency Medicine Faculty Incubator program focused on the topic of digital scholarship, providing and discussing papers relevant to the topic. We augmented this list of papers with further suggestions by guest experts and by an open call via Twitter for other important papers. Through this process, we created a list of 38 papers in total on the topic of evaluating digital scholarship. In order to determin...

Illinois Digital Scholarship: Preserving and Accessing the Digital Past, Present, and Future

Since the University's establishment in 1867, its scholarly output has been issued primarily in print, and the University Library and Archives have been readily able to collect, preserve, and to provide access to that output. Today, technological, economic, political and social forces are buffeting all means of scholarly communication. Scholars, academic institutions and publishers are engaged in debate about the impact of digital scholarship and open access publishing on the promotion and tenure process. The upsurge in digital scholarship affects many aspects of the academic enterprise, including how we record, evaluate, preserve, organize and disseminate scholarly work. The result has left the Library with no ready means by which to archive digitally produced publications, reports, presentations, and learning objects, much of which cannot be adequately represented in print form. In this incredibly fluid environment of digital scholarship, the critical question of how we will c...

Let’s Put Data to Use: Digital Scholarship for the Next Generation

The main theme of the 18th International Conference on Electronic Publishing (ELPUB) is the openness and use of research data as well as new and innovative publishing paradigms. Specifically, it aimed to bring together presentations and discussions that demonstrate the role of cultural heritage and service organizations in the creation, accessibility, curation and long term preservation of data. We aimed to provide a forum for discussing appraisal, citation and licensing of research data. Also, what is new with reviewing, publishing and editorial technology in a data-centric setting? ELPUB brings together researchers and practitioners to discuss data mining, digital publishing and social networks along with their implications for scholarly communication, information services, e-learning, e-businesses, the cultural heritage sector, and other areas where electronic publishing is imperative. ELPUB 2014 received 32 paper submissions. The peer review process resulted in the acceptance of 13 research papers and 9 posters. These papers were grouped into sessions based on the following topics: Open Access and Open Data; Know the Users Better: Researchers and Their Needs; Specialized Content for Researchers; Publishing and Access; Practical Aspects of Electronic Publishing. The conference held 2 pre-conference workshops and one tutorial on June 18. Andreas Rauber and Kresimir Duretec (Technical University of Vienna, Austria) led the tutorial “Digital Preservation Lifecycle: from challenges to solutions”. Pierre Mounier (EHESS/OpenEdition, France) and Victoria Tsoukala (National Documentation Centre, Greece) led the workshop “Non-profit Open Access ventures of significant scope in Europe” and Carla Basili (Sapienza University in Rome, Italy) led the workshop “Information Literacy in the context of scientific information”. The main program on June 19–20 features two keynotes. Herbert van de Sompel (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA) will deliver a keynote entitled “Towards Robust Linking and Referencing for Web-Based Scholarly Communication”. Mahendra Mahey (British Library Labs, UK) will deliver a keynote entitled “How the British Library’s Digital Scholarship department is putting data to use for researchers through its Digital research Team and British Library Labs project”.