Credit, recognition, attribution, and risk aversion in Digital Humanities scholarship

One of the notions that I’ve been mulling over after last weekend’s THATCamp Virginia 2012 is how credit, recognition, and attribution for work on digital humanities projects are integrated into the work itself. (I’ve tossed in a few bon mots from #THATCampVA colleagues into a very rough Storify thread.) There is clearly a broader discussion about these ideas already–with several examples of statements of principles and practices–but I’ve been wondering to what extent these principles/practices are infused into project life-cycles. Moreover, some of these practices might force some of the more vulnerable segments of digital humanities scholars (e.g., graduate students) to be ‘iconoclastic’ rather than ‘traditionalist’ (as Kuhn might argue), which could have implications for how hiring, promotion, tenure, etc. are approached. I would like to propose a session where we talk about these challenges and try to make some progress in our/my thinking about how to recognize and assess contributions to multi-scholar digital humanities projects.

Categories: Collaboration, Project Management, Session Proposals |

About Phil Edwards

I earned my B.S. in Chemistry with a Minor in Mathematics (2001) from the University at Buffalo--SUNY, my M.S. in Information with a specialization in Library and Information Services (2003) from the University of Michigan, and I was a Ph.D. candidate [A.B.D.] in Information Science at the University of Washington from 2003-2010. I was on the faculty at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2008-2011, and I joined the Center for Teaching Excellence at Virginia Commonwealth University in July 2011. My professional life currently involves working with individual faculty members, graduate students, and departments as they think about their teaching, courses, curricula, and student learning.