In my previous post in this thread, you may have noticed that I used the term “digital work” rather than “digital scholarship.” My choice of words was in no way accidental. Digital work encompasses everything historians do in the digital realm–scholarship, teaching, and service. “Digital scholarship” is a precisely defined (or should be precisely defined)…
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Making Digital Scholarship Count
Today I am inaugurating an extended series of posts on the question of how digital scholarship should “count” in the ways that things count at colleges and universities. As more and more scholars do work in the digital environment they are expecting this work to count toward tenure, promotion, and other types of formal evaluation…
Historical Code Monkeys
For years historians engaged in digital work have used the “I can’t really write much code” excuse as a way to avoid everything from learning simple tools like CSS to more complex ones like MySQL and PHP. Alas for me and everyone else who has used the “me no code” excuse, we’ll have to find…
THATCamp and All That (2)
Over the next two days I’ll be blogging from THATCamp at CHNM. The first afternoon session I attended was on civic engagement. I’m in this session because of the field studies course I intend to teach next summer and am very thrilled to see the work of the Cultural Gardens project at Cleveland State University….