Digital Scholarship
Presented by Bethany Nowviskie, Director of Digital Research & Scholarship, UVA Library, Program Associate, Scholarly Communication Institute
Yes, but does it count? How can the energy you invest in pedagogical innovation and new technologies for research enhance your professional profile as a scholar? What are the pitfalls and opportunities in engagement with social media and emerging scenes for scholarly publication? How does digital scholarship play out differently for academics at different points in their careers? Examples from large, faculty-led, peer-reviewed initiatives (like NINES), small-scale, fading digital projects (like the work of SpecLab), collaborative approaches (like those embodied by the University of Virginia Scholars' Lab and the Scholarly Communication Institute), and self-assembling academic communities (like THATcamp and the ones found on Twitter) will guide our discussion in this pre-conference workshop.
Dr. Bethany Nowviskie is Director of Digital Research & Scholarship at the University of Virginia Library, where she helps shape UVA’s support for innovative uses of technology by faculty and students. Her department includes the Scholars’ Lab and a team of Research & Development programmers devoted to scholarly tools and interfaces. The Scholars' Lab itself combines the services and resources of UVA Library’s former GeoStat and Etext Centers with end-user assistance from ITC’s Research Computing Support group.
Nowviskie is a member of the executive councils of the Association for Computers and Humanities (ACH) and NINES (the Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship), for which she designed the Collex tool. Her doctorate is in English and she holds a master's degree in Education. Nowviskie has worked in the digital humanities as a designer, manager, and editor since 1995. Her own research lies in the intersection of traditional interpretive methods with innovative social and algorithmic tools.
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