While digital humanities (DH) and digital scholarship (DS) are maturing as disciplines, the activities and products of DH and DS are still not consistently or readily understood or valued as research outputs. Part of this challenge is that there are limited structures in place to automatically make visible and discoverable “non-traditional” scholarly outputs like digital editions, digital exhibits, TEI-encoded texts, interactive maps, and visualizations. Further, despite shifts away from list-style curriculum vitae (CVs), there remains little clarity around how DH/DS activities and outputs should be reported in a researcher’s CV.

In this hands-on workshop, we will address both of these issues. We will begin by addressing scholarly technologies that enable the discovery, preservation, and publishing of DH/DS outputs, discussing ways that researchers can make their research legible and durable (e.g., persistent identifiers, metadata, repositories). We will then discuss strategies for reporting DH/DS and knowledge mobilization activities and outputs in list-style and narrative-style CVs, including tools and approaches to demonstrating the value and impact of this work within and beyond the academy.

Workshop audience:

Researchers at all stages (students, faculty, and staff) who are engaged in DH/DS practices

Learning outcomes

At the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Employ strategies for ensuring the long-term discoverability of digital scholarly editions and TEI-encoded texts

• Confidently seek recognition for your DH/DS activities and outputs

• Access tools & approaches for reporting your DH/DS and knowledge mobilization activities

• Effectively track and report your DH/DS outputs

Pre-requisites:

• Please bring a copy of your CV to this workshop, as well as examples of your DH/DS activities and outputs

About the speaker:

Ali Moore is a Digital Scholarship Librarian in the Research Commons at Simon Fraser University. Ali’s areas of expertise include open scholarship, responsible research assessment, and researcher online presence. She is a co-investigator on a scoping review exploring how knowledge mobilization is reported in CVs (and how tenure and promotion committees evaluate it), and a co-investigator in the health and well-being research cluster of The Arts Impact Partnership, a national coalition reimagining how we understand the impact of the arts. She serves as a member of the SFU Canadian Institute for Studies in Publishing and is a co-convenor of the Association of Research Libraries Engaged Scholarship and Societal Impact Interest Group.