Humanities Research Centers (2008)

The following are readings suggested by SCI 6 leadership and participants:

Anderson, John Ward. “Checking Out Tomorrow’s Library: In Paris an International Working Group Shows Off the Prototype For a Multilingual ‘Intellectual Cathedral’ of Digitized Knowledge.” Washington Post. Thursday, October 18, 2007. Page A2.

Brantley, Peter. “Architectures for Collaboration: Roles and Expectations for Digital Libraries.” EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 43, no. 2 (March/April 2008).

Guess, Andy. “Rise of the Digital NEH.” Insider Higher Ed. April 3, 2008.

Guthrie, Kevin, et al. Sustainability and Revenue Models for Online Academic Resources. ITHAKA. May 2008.

Howard, Jennifer. “Harvard Humanities Students Discover the 17th Century Online.” The Chronicle of Higher Education. Section: Information Technology. October 26, 2007. Volume 54, Issue 9, Page A1.

Our Cultural Commonwealth. Report of the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Ed. Marlo Welshons. Released December 13, 2006.

Wouters, Paul. See selected publications listed on the website of the Virtual Knowledge Studio: http://virtualknowledgestudio.nl/paul-wouters/paul-wouters-publications/

Paul Wouters (1951) is programme leader of the Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences, an institute of the KNAW. He is also professor of Knowledge Dynamics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, scientific director of the Erasmus Studio (a subsidiary of the VKS), and Visiting Professor of Cybermetrics at the University of Wolverhampton. Wouters is particularly interested in the design and analysis of new scholarly practices in the humanities and social sciences. Can we create novel forms of knowledge by making smarter or more playful use of information and information technologies? And what are the implications of digital research objects for the conduct of science and scholarship? He has written on the history of the Science Citation Index and its impact on the standards of quality in academic work. Presently, he focuses on e-research in the humanities and social sciences. (Wouter’s work is recommended by Kathleen Woodward.)

Young, Jeffrey R. “Blog Comments and Peer Review Go Head to Head to See Which Makes a Book Better.” The Chronicle of Higher Education. Section: Today’s News. Tuesday, January 22, 2008.

Zorich, Diane. A Survey of Digital Humanities Centers in the United States. Prepared for the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). 2008.

Materials and suggestions from Harold Short:

Slides presented by Harold Short in pdf form.

Report on the project on ‘Peer review and evaluation of digital resources for the arts and humanities’:
http://www.history.ac.uk/digit/peer/

The wider ICT in Arts and Humanities Research ’strategy project’ reports (of which the Peer Review was one) may also be of interest:
http://www.ahrcict.rdg.ac.uk/activities/strategy_projects/reports/index.htm

The ‘communities of practice’ web site that came out of the AHRC ICT Methods Network project:
http://www.arts-humanities.net/

The history and documents of the ARHC ICT Methods Network itself:
http://methodsnetwork.ac.uk