Colloquium on Collaborative Digital Scholarship

This colloquium explored the emerging synergy between faculty of multiple disciplines, librarians, and academic innovators working to jointly develop new expressions of knowledge in the form of digital scholarship products and digital library systems. As scholarly communication becomes increasingly digital in terms of media and functionality, many transformative opportunities have arisen for productive collaborative relationships between academic professionals such as faculty, librarians, and technologists.

 

Presentations

 

Dr. Allen Tullos (Assoc Professor Emory University, Senior Editor of Southern Spaces)

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“SouthernSpaces.Org: An Interdisciplinary Online Journal about the Regions, Places and Cultures of the American South” 

What are the opportunities and benefits of digital multimedia for scholarly publications?  What are the best editorial strategies for ensuring academic rigor and maximum impact of online journals?  This presentation will present observations from five years of experience publishing the Southern Spaces online journal.  Dr. Tullos has published numerous articles and books on American popular music, southern film and visual culture, the politics of space, and contemporary southern politics.

 

Dr. Katherine Skinner (Executive Director of the Educopia Institute)

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 “Collaborative Digital Scholarship Projects: Best Practices for Creation, Management, and Sustainability”

 We are seeing the inception of a new field in the latest generation of digital humanities.  What are the best practices for interdisciplinary and inter-organizational teams of scholars, librarians, and technologists to collaboratively developing such works?  Dr. Skinner led the creation of Southern Spaces, and now leads the MetaArchive Cooperative a multi-institutional digital preservation program.

 

Dr. Andrew Torget (Assistant Professor, University of North Texas)

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 “Digital Scholarship: The Opportunity and the Promise for Universities”

 Why will digital scholarship be a defining characteristic of the next generation of leading universities in the twenty-first century?  A historian of nineteenth-century America, Dr. Torget has directed development on a number of pioneering digital projects, including the Texas Slavery Project, Voting America: United States Political Development,1840-2008, and the History Engine: Tools for Collaborative Education and Research. He is also the co-editor of two books on the Civil War.

 

 

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