Fostering Change: Evaluating Digital Scholarship for Professional Credit W. E. B. DuBois Library University of Massachusetts October 25, 2017 Seth Denbo, PhD American Historical Association
Churchdown Fireworks 2014, Kev Lewis (https://flic.kr/p/pYcE6D)
John Donne by Isaac Oliver (National Portrait Gallery, NPG 1849)
Paul’s Churchyard, looking east, from the west. From the Visual Model, constructed by Joshua Stephens, rendered by Jordan Gray. https://vpcp.chass.ncsu.edu/churchyard/view/
Downs & Nesbit, Mapping Occupation: Force, Freedom, and the Army in Reconstruction, http://mappingoccupation.org/map/index.html
How is digital scholarship changing what it means to publish?
What is the role of peer review?
How do we provide professional credit for new scholarly forms?
Questions
"At its heart, scholarship is a documented and disciplined conversation about matters of enduring consequence."
AHA Guidelines for the Professional Evaluation of Digital Scholarship by historians
Thank you!
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