Digital Scholarship in the University Tenure and Promotion Process

[Jennifer Boettcher <boettcher@georgetown.edu>]

*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=92s 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:*

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           o Stephen Nichols
             <http://web.jhu.edu/grll/FacultyBio/Nichols.html>, Professor
             of Medieval French Literature, Johns Hopkins University
           o Martha Nell Smith <http://www.mith.umd.edu/mnsmith/>,
             Professor of English, University of Maryland
           o Paula Petrik
             <http://historyarthistory.gmu.edu/faculty-and-staff/paula-petrik/>,
             Professor of History, George Mason University
           o Kent Norman <http://lap.umd.edu/lap/People/kent_norman/>,
             Professor of Psychology, University of Maryland

     *Moderator: *Wayne Davis
     <http://explore.georgetown.edu/people/davisw/?Action=3DView&;>,
     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
<mailto:wco4@georgetown.edu>
Presented by the Georgetown University Libraries Scholarly Communication
Team.*