Laying New Lines for Digital Humanities Scholars
It seems as though digital humanists are running into some of the same issues that academic librarians have experienced over the years. At some universities, they have faculty status while at others they are viewed as support staff. Since librarians work 12 months, there is not the same amount of time for research to generate scholarly publications, and this is an area that can be a barrier to tenure track status.
Seeking details on the nature of this work, given a group project where we are examining the factors of collaborative capacity in organizations. Our focus has been on government-business-nonprofit settings, but your work may be something we would want to summarize, given the explicitly “network of networks” and higher education focus.See the website above.Thanks, John Stephens
[...] of all persons and and affirms the dignity of all persons. MoEML is committed to honouring the Collaborators’ Bill of Rights. Enquiries and applications may be sent to MoEML via Janelle Jenstad at jenstad@uvic.ca. [...]
[...] revealed and highlighted the names of everyone who had ever worked on this project before the Collaborator Bill of Rights existed. I asked on Twitter, how many of you look at the About page of a digital humanities [...]
[...] and build upon the resulting code and artifacts? In this session, I propose we use the “Collaborators’ Bill of Rights” as a starting point for discussion. How might we instantiate these recommendations in our [...]
[...] in “Care of the Soul,” and the Off the Tracks Workshop devised a useful “Collaborators’ Bill of Rights.”) If you can bring seed funding or administrative backing to a project, that might make it easier to [...]
Trip Kirkpatrick
Entity is Scholars’ Lab, not Scholar’s Lab as in page title. (nit, nit, nit)
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Seeking details on the nature of this work, given a group project where we are examining the factors of collaborative capacity in organizations. Our focus has been on government-business-nonprofit settings, but your work may be something we would want to summarize, given the explicitly “network of networks” and higher education focus.See the website above.Thanks, John Stephens
Entity is Scholars’ Lab, not Scholar’s Lab as in page title. (nit, nit, nit)
It seems as though digital humanists are running into some of the same issues that academic librarians have experienced over the years. At some universities, they have faculty status while at others they are viewed as support staff. Since librarians work 12 months, there is not the same amount of time for research to generate scholarly publications, and this is an area that can be a barrier to tenure track status.