Evaluating Digital Humanities Work: Guidelines for Librarians

Sat, 01 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000

In this piece, Zach Coble explores the benefits of creating guidelines for the evaluation of librarians’ digital humanities work for the purposes of hiring, appointment, tenure, and promotion, and offers a basic framework for what those guidelines might look like.

Digital humanities, as well as related fields such digital media studies and digital libraries, have presented many opportunities for libraries. These include the establishment of digital humanities centers, the development of new data standards, new forms of scholarly communication, the creation of new resources (and novel ways of asking questions of those resources), and the development of new tools for scholarship and accessing collections.¹ However, traditional modes of evaluation do not address many of the key aspects of digital humanities work.

Zcoble on Journal of Digital Humanities

Evaluating Digital Humanities Work: Guidelines for Librarians