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Doing Digital Scholarship: Principles & Practices, Tools & Resources
Saga of a Textbook Project
eHumanities Research Meeting10 November 2011
Nicholas W. JankowskiVisiting Fellow, KNAW e-Humanities Group
Overview
• Background• Objectives• Features• Contents• Illustrations –Models–Websites– Tools
Periodic intermezzos for discussion
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Background
• Initially: dictionary for digital media studies
• Subsequently: textbook providing conceptual framework•Polity Press series Digital Media & Society
• Now: Doing Digital Scholarship
• What & why:•Changes in focus•Relation 2nd & 3rd foci•Relations to other projects (e.g., e-Research volume, Internet research, NM&S)
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Book: Objectives & Audiences
– Objectives• To acquaint readers with tools, skills, resources for conducting
scholarship in a digital and networked environment• To provide illustrations / cases of digital scholarship• To build on / extend methodology textbooks• To complement course instruction; suitable for online & classroom
venues• Note: a textbook; not original scholarship, not ‘new knowledge’
– Target audiences: university / college level• Undergraduate: upper-division• Graduate: masters-level programs• Across disciplines in SSH
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Features: Structure, Website
– Uniform chapter structure• Generic chapter outline with section divisions • Boxed texts, e.g., descriptions of tools, cases of digital scholarship• Annotated references & resources• Exercises / assignments / study questions
– Accompanying website• Excerpts from chapter materials (‘trailers’, not full text)
• Supplementary materials – readings– links– exercises
• Instructor’s guide; course syllabus; other syllabi• Website: not advanced ‘enhanced publication’
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Features: Style
• Active tense, first person• Academic, but not excessively scholarly• Informal, but without excess
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Illustrations of University-level Textbooks
Aspects of the genre•Book design
– Color– Figures, schemas, tables– Book format– Page layout
•Features– Boxed text– Examples, cases
•Exercises– Study questions– assignments
•Resources– Glossary – (Annotated) bibliography– (complementary) website– Institutions, centers, programs– Website links
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Table of Contents: short version (tentative)
Queries•Importance•Weight •Order•Difficulty / complexity
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Models of ScholarshipBasic schemas of empirical research
Source: Google Images
Empirical cycle: A. D. de Groot
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Websites Accompanying Textbooks
• SAGE: Mass Communication Theory• Palgrave: Skills4Study• Pearson: Research methods
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Tools: Identifying Tools for Digital Scholarship
Source: Bulger et al. (2011)Reinventing Research?Information Practices in the Humanities, p. 63. Report available here
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Tools: Identifying Resources for Digital Scholarship
Online Learning: The Chronicle's 2011 Special Report(6 Nov. 2011)From Homeric Writings to Cellphone Forensics, Some Favorite Online Resources
Question posed:
What Web resources have you found most useful in teaching and research?
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Tools: Enhanced Publications on iPadChronicle story (6 Nov. 2011)From Homeric Writings to Cellphone Forensics, Some Favorite Online Resources
Intermezzo 4: Identifying Web Resources
Chronicle query: What Web resources have you found most useful in teaching and research?
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Tools: Mind / Concept Mapping
Mind mapping collaboratory tools
Robin Good, 2009masternewmedia
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Intermezzo 4: General Discussion
Personal concerns & challenges•Suitability of eResearch framework•Relation of project to originally contracted book•Preparing text appropriate for students at different levels of competence; from different disciplines•Completing book manuscript...with urgency
Invitation: reviewers of manuscript(e.g., colleagues, members of target groups; non-blind, closed)
Questions / Comments
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