Access and Abundance

http://www.americanyawp.com

Close Reading

• Annotation
• Juxtaposition

http://juxtacommons.org

Macro-level Analysis

• Geospatial Work
• Data Visualization
• Computational Textual Analysis

Digital Exhibits

• Collections of primary sources
• Structured metadata
• Multiple points of access (browse, map, search, etc.)
• Narrative interpretation
  • Linear and/or non-linear approaches
• Integration of visualizations

http://scalar.usc.edu/works/ethnic-los-angeles/index

Publicly Engaged Projects

• Public first (audience and relationships)
• Clear outcomes and boundaries
• Project planning skills
• Multiple methods

http://coloredconventions.org/

Considerations for planning:

• What is the skill you want to teach?
• What method serves that skill?
• Group work or individual work?
• What is the scale?
  • Activity or Unit or Final Project
• Duration?
  • Semester or Year or Multi-year
• Collaboration?
  • Within the College or Community Partners

A Domain of One's Own

• Experimentation space
• Control over digital identity
• Ownership of intellectual property

• UMW Domains
• Reclaim Hosting 
• Reclaim Hosting, Domain of One's Own packages

Further Reading

• Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
• Hybrid Pedagogy
• ProfHacker
• Programming Historian

Public Scholarship

http://wiki.wcaleb.rice.edu/

Community Conversations

• USIH Blog (Society for US Intellectual History)
• Black Perspectives (African American Intellectual History Society)
• The Junto: A Group Blog on Early American History
• NOTCHES: (re)marks on the history of sexuality
• Age of Revolutions
• Frog in a Well

http://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/

Digital Publishing

• Peer Review Process
• Open Access
• Engagement tools

http://publicphilosophyjournal.org/about/review/

http://mcpress.media-commons.org/plannedobsolescence/

http://enchantingthedesert.com/console/

https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/debates?id=2

Post-Publication Review Guidelines for Digital Projects

• Journal of American History
• American Historical Review **
• The Public Historian
• ARLIS (Art Libraries)
• American Quarterly
• Society for Classical Studies
• RIDE (German documentary editing journal)

Post-Publication Review Guidelines for Digital Projects

• Consider the genre of work and it’s goals

• Consider selection and framing of materials

• Consider the ways that the project engages with related scholarly fields

• Consider the usability of the work (navigation, layout, functionality)

• Consider the types of technology employed and their appropriateness

• Consider whether the project has a clear audience, and whether the work respond adequately to those audiences’ needs

• Consider the nature of the collaboration that produced the work, and the other processes of production

Digital Dissertation Guidelines

Each project should:

• make an original contribution to fields of scholarship through substantive analysis;
• articulate the significance of work;
• integrate original research adequate to supporting the key argument of the project;
• engage with historiography for the related fields;
• justify methodological choices (digital and otherwise);
• and, present the work in a usable format.

https://historyarthistory.gmu.edu/graduate/phd-history/digital-dissertation-guidelines

Project Elements

• Framing Introduction

• 3-5 Core Modules/Units, which could include:

  • direct access to a repository of primary sources, compiled datasets, or materials with stable URIs:

    • described with adequate metadata to enable citation (using a consistent, standard schema is recommended) and potential reuse

    • accompanied by a clear indication of excerpting and editing of sources

    • demonstrating appropriate attention to copyright and fair use guidelines

  • application of digital methods. The selection of methods will depend significantly on the kinds of questions being asked, and by the types of evidence being examined. Possible digital methods might include (but are not limited to):

    • data visualizations

    • computational text analysis

    • geospatial analysis

    • social network analysis

• Bibliography

• Self-Reflexive Discussion of the Project Development Process

Promotion Portfolios

Evaluation of Digital Scholarship

• Modern Language Association
• American Historical Association
• College Art Association
• American Academy of Religion (Draft)

• Journal of Digital Humanities, Vol. 1, Iss. 4 (Fall 2012)

Evaluation of Digital Scholarship

• Definition of the issues:

  • Non-standard forms

  • Varying types of review (pre-publication, post-publication, grant review)

  • Open-ended work

  • Collaborative processes

Evaluation of Digital Scholarship

• Responsibilities for creators:

  • Narrate individual roles and contributions to collaborations

  • Narrate process of development for everything

• Responsibilities for departments and evaluators:

  • Be clear about expectations from the beginning

  • Review work in its native format

  • Include someone in the review process who actually knows something about digital work

  • Interpret impact broadly