Resources for Evaluating Digital Scholarship
Annotated Bibliography on Evaluating Digital Scholarship for Tenure & Promotion
Compiled by Cheryl E. Ball, Carrie A. Lamanna, Craig Saper, and Michael Day
Digital Humanities/Digital Scholarship Guidelines - Professional Organizations
MLA
- Guidelines for Evaluating Work in Digital Humanities and Digital Media (2012) https://www.mla.org/About-Us/Governance/Committees/Committee-Listings/Professional-Issues/Committee-on-Information-Technology/Guidelines-for-Evaluating-Work-in-Digital-Humanities-and-Digital-Mediahttp://www.mla.org/resources/documents/rep_it/guidelines_evaluation_digital
- Report of the MLA Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion (2006) https://www.mla.org/content/download/3362/81802/taskforcereport0608.pdf
CCCC
- Promotion and Tenure Guidelines for Work with Technology http://www.ncte.org/cccc/resources/positions/promotionandtenure
College Art Association
- Guidelines for the Evaluation of Digital Scholarship in Art and Architectural History http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/evaluating-digital-scholarship-in-art-and-architectural-history.pdf
American Historical Association
- Guidelines for the Professional Evaluation of Digital Scholarship by Historians https://www.historians.org/teaching-and-learning/digital-history-resources/evaluation-of-digital-scholarship-in-history/guidelines-for-the-professional-evaluation-of-digital-scholarship-by-historians
National Council on Public History, American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians
- Tenure, Promotion, and the Publicly Engaged Academic Historian https://ncph.org/wp-content/uploads/Engaged-Historian.pdf
Institutional Tenure and Promotion Guidelines (Collected and Archived by Susan Delegrange)
Colorado State University English department T&P GuidelinesCSU P&T guidelines (doc)
CSU P&T documentation (doc)
CSU Promotion to Full Professor guidelines (doc)
College of DuPage E-range (doc)
Duquesne University Faculty Handbook (2010) (pdf)
Georgia Southern University P&T Guidelines (doc)
Northern Illinois University, Policies, Prodedures and Criteria Concerning Personnel Recommendations (pdf)NIU Recommendation for Promotion and Tenure form (2004) (doc)
NIU Mission and Scope statement (docx)
M. Day's Scholarship of Teaching and Administration example (docx)
Ohio State University, Department of English, Faculty Appointments, Promotion, and Tenure: Criteria and Procedures (2007) (pdf)
Gordon Gee's Address to the Ohio State University Faculty (2009) (pages 8-10) (pdf)
Scott Jaschik, "Different Paths to Full Professor," Inside Higher Ed, March 5, 2010 - on Gordon Gee's proposal (link)(docx)
Purdue University Scholarship of Engagement - Making the Case for Promotion workshop (2009) (link)
College of Liberal Arts Department Promotion Guidelines (link)
Guidelines for Promotion to Full Professor: Visibility and Responsibility (pdf)
Definition of Engagement (docx)
Evaluation Criteria for the Scholarship of Engagement (Purdue) (2001) (doc)
University of Maine, New Media Department - rationale for redefining criteria and list of criteria published in Leonardo (pdf)
Virginia Commonwealth University Department of English Governance Document (note pages 20-21) (pdf)
Case studies of DH tenure cases
- Tenure and Promotion Cases for Composition Faculty Who Work with Technology http://www.ncte.org/cccc/committees/7cs/tenurepromotioncases
Digital and DH Dissertations
- "Digital Dissertations: A Research Story" by Megan Adams, Kristine Blair http://praxis.technorhetoric.net/tiki-index.php?page=PraxisWiki%3A_%3ADigital+Dissertations#A_Concluding_Call_to_Action
- #Alt-Academy #remixthediss What is a Dissertation? New Models, Methods, Media http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/alt-ac/pieces/what-dissertation-new-models-methods-media#licastro
Example Peer-reviewed Venues (and Other Mechanisms) for Publishing DH
- KAIROS: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy http://kairos.technorhetoric.net
- Digital Humanities Now http://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/about/
- Ant Spider Bee: Exploring the Digital Environmental Humanities http://www.antspiderbee.net
- DH Commons http://dhcommons.org
Sample DH Projects for Evaluation
- Remixing Rural Texas — Local Texts, Global Contexts http://faculty.tamuc.edu/rrt/index.html
- iRevolutions http://irevolutions.org
- Performing Archive: Curtis + "the vanishing race" http://scalar.usc.edu/works/performingarchive/index
- Hedgo-o-matic http://hedgeomatic.cal.msu.edu/hedgeomatic/
- I Trip the Light Anaclastic: A Remix of Virginia Burke’s 1959 'Why Not Try Collage?' http://enculturation.net/i-trip-the-light-anaclastic
- Wunderkammer, Cornell, and the Visual Canon of Arrangement http://enculturation.net/i-trip-the-light-anaclastic
- Bad at Sports http://badatsports.com
- Colored Conventions http://coloredconventions.org/
- Our Marathon www.northeastern.edu/marathon
- Master Hands remix http://enculturation.net/11
- US History survey course/textbookhttp://historymatters.gmu.edu/
- Web Book Companion https://github.com/karlstolley/web-book-2e-site
- Eli Review https://app.elireview.com/
Further examples, as needed:
- Code for Disciplinary Use https://github.com/karlstolley/kairos-toolbar
- Masters of Text http://www.mastersoftext.com/
- Deep Water Horizon Roadkill Tollbooth (TW!! - images of dead animals): ~~#1155CC,transparent:===http://technorhetoric.net/~keditors/working-files/21.2/morey-5/