6th Scholarly Communication Symposium - March 26th
Sixth Scholarly Communication Symposium
Digital Scholarship in the University Tenure and Promotion Process
Landmark digital multimedia scholarship projects have existed since at least the mid- 1990s –note the advent of George Mason University’s Center for History and New Media--and the web is ubiquitous in higher education. Yet well over a decade on, the connection between promotion, tenure, or salary increases and digital scholarship is uncertain. In a long-awaited report in late 2006, the Modern Language Association said that we have reached "a threshold moment" in digital scholarship and the promotion and tenure process, but left the challenge of change up to individual departments and institutions. Is there an understanding of what digital scholarship and its many facets entail? Is it the ability to win grants? Is it content provision to a project? Is it information architecture and visual design? Is it writing a software tool or designing a data structure that will underpin a project? Most digital scholarship projects are highly collaborative. Credit for digital scholarship has been defined by the criteria for traditional scholarship, but have criteria for an academic website been developed to the same degree that they have for an academic article?
Panel of Speakers:
Stephen Nichols, Professor of Medieval French Literature, Johns Hopkins University
Martha Nell Smith, Professor of English, University of Maryland, Professor of History, George Mason University
Paula Petrik, Professor of History, George Mason University
Kent Norman, Professor of Psychology, University of Maryland
Moderator:
Wayne Davis, Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University
Wednesday, March 26, 9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Lauinger Library, Murray Room, 5th Floor
Please RSVP to William Olsen, wco4@georgetown.edu
Presented by the Georgetown University Libraries Scholarly Communication Team
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