Collaboration and Infrastructure

Edmond, Jennifer

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“…For example, if the differences of perspective between digital humanities researchers and digital librarians remain unacknowledged and unmanaged, a team's trust, morale, and effectiveness can be diminished. 3 Other challenges include faculty's hesitancy to share their research discoveries and misguided reasons for collaboration, such as, an assumption that collaborative digital humanities programs can produce economic benefit, obtain political gains, or attract non-specialist users. As a scholar, Edmond emphasizes that successful digital humanities collaboration requires "the interweaving of very different intellectual positions and working cultures."…”

Section: Micah Vandegrift and Stewartmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital Humanities: What Can Libraries Offer?

Wong¹

2016

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The collaborative aspect of digital humanities is one of the core values of the field. Specialists and organizations involved in digital humanities partnerships may include individual scholars focusing on a particular area, multiple scholars across disciplines, computer scientists, or digital humanities centers. Through a quantitative analysis of authorship in international digital humanities journals, this article demonstrates that libraries also have unique advantages that make them well positioned to contribute to digital humanities.

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Section: Micah Vandegrift and Stewartmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital Humanities: What Can Libraries Offer?

Wong¹

2016

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“…Digital humanists’ work belies the timeworn notion of the solitary humanities scholar (Babeu, 2011; Borgman, 2009; Burdick et al , 2012; Edmond, 2016; Moretti, 2003; Spiro, 2012a). Rockenbach (2013) deems collaboration the fulcrum of digital humanities.…”

Section: Overarching Concernsmentioning

confidence: 81%

“…Many collaborative efforts run aground, however (Davidson, 2015; Flanders, 2012; Hockey, 2012; McCarty, 2012; Maron and Pickle, 2014; Terras, 2012a; Waters, 2013). Notwithstanding disciplinarity, challenges include personalities (successful collaborations demand dignity, trust, and understanding), communication and coordination, equal contributions, accountability and responsibility, training, and consistent funding (Edmond, 2016; Gibbs, 2011; McCarty, 2016; Pitti, 2004; Siemens, 2009). Collaborative ventures that revolve around sharing data or tools seem easier to effect than those that depend upon sharing knowledge (Zorich, 2008).…”

Section: Overarching Concernsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The conceptual ecology of digital humanities

Poole

2017

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to dissect key issues and debates in digital humanities, an emerging field of theory and practice. Digital humanities stands greatly to impact the Information and Library Science (ILS) professions (and vice versa) as well as the traditional humanities disciplines. Design/methodology/approach This paper explores the contours of digital humanities as a field, touching upon fundamental issues related to the field’s coalescence and thus to its structure and epistemology. It looks at the ways in which digital humanities brings new approaches and sheds new light on manifold humanities foci. Findings Digital humanities work represents a vital new current of interdisciplinary, collaborative intellectual activity both in- and outside the academy; it merits particular attention from ILS. Research limitations/implications This paper helps potential stakeholders understand the intellectual and practical framework of the digital humanities and “its relationship” to their own intellectual and professional work. Originality/value This paper critically synthesizes previous scholarly work in digital humanities. It has particular value for those in ILS, a community that has proven especially receptive to the field, as well as to scholars working in many humanities disciplines. Digital humanities has already made an important impact on both LIS and the humanities; its impact is sure to grow.

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“…In a 2006 report on cyberinfrastructure, the American Council for Learned Societies highlighted collaborative research within digital scholarship as a motivating requirement for ongoing development of shared infrastructures, opening a path toward interventions that must be planned and executed at the institutional level. With increased attention to scholarly collaboration in the digital humanities, further themes emerged around credit and authorship (Nowviskie, 2011;Nowviskie, 2012), the relationship between collaboration and infrastructure (Edmond, 2015), and the role of project management for alternative academics and other scholars in the humanities (Leon, 2011). While most the social scientific studies above employ qualitative methods, quantitative methods have also been employed to study collaboration networks in terms of project membership (Quan-Haase, Suarez, & Brown, 2015) and co-authorship (Ossenblok, Verleysen, & Engels, 2014).…”

Section: Literature On Scholarly Practices In the Humanitiesmentioning

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Humanities Collaborations and Research Practices: Investigating New Modes of Collaborative Humanities Scholarship

Green¹,

Courtney²,

Senseney³

2017

"Roll With the Times, or the Times Roll Over You"

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This paper presents preliminary findings from "Humanities Collaborations and Research Practices: Exploring Scholarship in the Global Midwest," (HCRP), a collaborative project led by librarians at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Indiana University that examines how collaborative and experimental research practices in the humanities affects scholarly practices, scholarly communication, and research outcomes.The HCRP study examines a series of multi-institutional humanities research projects funded by the Humanities Without Walls (HWW) Global Midwest initiative, a Mellon Foundation-funded consortium of Midwest university humanities centers. We conducted 27 semi-structured interviews with scholars from diverse humanities disciplines who were HWW Global Midwest awardees. The interviews explore how scholars share data, build self-generated research environment infrastructures for supporting data sharing and communications, and frame their collaborations in the context of broader goals. This short paper will offer new perspectives on scholarly communications and data curation in the humanities, as it will share valuable insights into how information professionals can engage with collaborative, experimental, and multimodal research.

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Collaboration and Infrastructure

Cited by 20 publications

References 28 publications

Digital Humanities: What Can Libraries Offer?

Digital Humanities: What Can Libraries Offer?

The conceptual ecology of digital humanities

Humanities Collaborations and Research Practices: Investigating New Modes of Collaborative Humanities Scholarship

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