https://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/author/lmandell/Recent content in Lmandell on Journal of Digital HumanitiesHugoen-USSat, 01 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000https://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-4/promotion-and-tenure-for-digital-scholarship-by-laura-mandell/Sat, 01 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000https://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-4/promotion-and-tenure-for-digital-scholarship-by-laura-mandell/<p><em>An Open Letter to the Promotion and Tenure Committee at Texas A&amp;M University, Department of English, upon their request for information about how to evaluate digital work for promotion and tenure.</em></p> <h3 id="evaluating-digital-scholarship">Evaluating Digital Scholarship</h3> <p>The first thing to do in evaluating digital scholarship is to ask the scholar who has produced it to submit it, if at all possible, for peer review. There are several avenues for doing so. First, any electronic scholarly edition can be submitted to the MLA Scholarly Editions Committee for peer review, and junior faculty should be encouraged to do so. The kinds of editions that will pass peer review by the SCE could be very print-like, so the fact that a digital edition did not receive the SCE seal is not completely indicative of its value as research, about which I’ll say more below. Another venue for peer-reviewing is <a href="http://www.nines.org/" title="Nineteenth-century Scholarship Online Website">Nineteenth-century Scholarship Online</a> (NINES) for nineteenth-century electronic scholarship. That NINES model is being expanded: my own <a href="http://www.18thConnect.org/18th_about/peerReview.html" title="Peer Review Guidelines -- 18thConnect">18thConnect peer-reviews eighteenth-century digital projects</a>, and three other peer-reviewing organizations are coming into existence: MESA for medieval, REKn for Renaissance / Early Modern, and ModNets for Modernists.</p>