Interdisciplinary scholarly collaboration in data-intensive, public-funded, international digital humanities project work

Poole, Alex H.; Garwood, Deborah A.

doi:10.1016/j.lisr.2018.08.003

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“…Further, they enable the training of students and the production of data for public and scholarly reuse. By contrast, challenges of such data‐intensive work include welcoming productive failure; effecting translation work and finding intermediaries to do it; dividing and delegating labor; resolving conflict; working with technology; settling upon outputs; and dealing with time management, sustainability, and infrastructure (Poole & Garwood, ).…”

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Digging into data management in public‐funded, international research in digital humanities

Poole

Garwood

2019

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Path-breaking in theory and practice alike, digital humanities (DH) not only secures a larger public audience for humanities and social sciences research, but also permits researchers to ask novel questions and to revisit familiar ones. Public-funded, international, and collaborative research in DH furthers institutional research missions and enriches networked knowledge. The Digging into Data 3 challenge (DID3) (2014-2016), an international and interdisciplinary grant initiative embracing big data, included 14 teams sponsored by 10 funders from four nations. A qualitative case study that relies on purposive sampling and grounded analysis, this article centers on the information practices of DID3 participants. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 53 participants on 11 of the 14 DID3 projects. The study explores how Data Management Plan requirements affect work practices in public-funded DH, how scholars grapple with key data management challenges, and how they plan to reuse and share their data. It concludes with three recommendations and three directions for future research.Ultimately … all we're producing in this is data, and if it's not good then we don't have anything. … To call it data management makes it seem kind of small and esoteric, when actually the way we might be experiencing it is more holistic because it becomes part of everything we're doing, really. We don't have anything but data.

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“…This article is the fifth of five on DID3. First, Poole and Garwood () analyze the intellectual, scholarly, and professional benefits and challenges of the initiative. Second, Poole and Garwood () explore the official and unofficial roles and responsibilities of librarians and archivists.…”

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Digging into data management in public‐funded, international research in digital humanities

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Garwood

2019

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“…The field of digital humanities (DH) is relatively new and has been undergoing constant reevaluation and redefining since its conception out of the growing intersection between humanities research and the computer sciences (Mahony, 2018). Activities and research topics within the field are highly varied and include digitizing historical documents, studying media and art, evaluating infrastructure, mining data, and developing best teaching practices (Poole, 2017; Poole and Garwood, 2018b). Naturally, this brings a multitude of different experts and academics to the field, such as librarians, archivists, artists, educators and activists (Poole, 2017).…”

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Cross-national digital humanities research collaborations: structure, patterns and themes

2020

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the structure, patterns and themes of cross-national collaborations in Digital Humanities research through the application of social network analysis and visualization tools.Design/methodology/approachThe sample includes articles containing Digital Humanities research in the Web of Science Core Collection as of December 2018. First, co-occurrence data representing collaborations among nations were extracted from author affiliations. Second, the descriptive statistics, network indicators and international communities were calculated. Third, the research topics of different cross-national collaboration communities based on ISI keywords, author keywords, title and abstracts were detected.FindingsThe results show that the scope of international collaborations in Digital Humanities research is broad, but the distribution among nations is unbalanced. The USA, Germany and England were identified as the major contributors. Five research communities are identified, led by the USA, Germany, England, Belgium and France. The communities share common research topics such as history, GIS, text mining, visualization, while each has its own research emphasis.Originality/valueThis study applied various informetric methods and tools to reveal the collaboration structure, patterns and themes among nations in Digital Humanities research.

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“…2.2 Collaborative and interdisciplinary nature of digital humanities DH has been a diverse and inclusive field for collaborations and shared knowledge from a wide range of disciplines and researchers such as humanists, sociologists, anthropologists, scientists, computer experts, mathematicians, technologists, artists, designers and communicators, with a convergence on shared methods and values (Rodriguez Ortega, 2018;Bradley et al, 2018). DH has developed and embedded a strong sense of community for collaboratively and collectively cultivating, managing and exchanging expertise and knowledge (Poole and Garwood, 2018a;Richardson and Eichmann-Kalwara, 2017). According to Porter et al (2007), interdisciplinarity involves the integrating of theories, concepts, techniques and data from multiple bodies of specialization or research practices.…”

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Digital humanities research: interdisciplinary collaborations, themes and implications to library and information science

Zhang

Immel

2020

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the structure, patterns and themes of interdisciplinary collaborations in the digital humanities (DH) research through the application of social network analysis and visualization tools.Design/methodology/approachThe sample includes articles containing DH research in the Web of Science Core Collection as of December 2018. First, co-occurrence data representing collaborations among disciplinary were extracted from the subject category. Second, the descriptive statistics, network indicators and interdisciplinary communities were calculated. Third, the research topics of different interdisciplinary collaboration communities based on system keywords, author keywords, title and abstracts were detected.FindingsThe findings reveal that while the scope of disciplines involved in DH research is broad and evolving over time, most interdisciplinary collaborations are concentrated among several disciplines, including computer science, library and information science, linguistics and literature. The study further uncovers some communities based on closely collaborating disciplines and the evolving nature of such interdisciplinary collaboration communities over time. To better understand the close collaboration ties, the study traces and analyzes the research topics and themes of the interdisciplinary communities. Finally, the implications of the findings for DH research are discussed.Originality/valueThis study applied various informetric methods and tools to reveal the collaboration structure, patterns and themes among disciplinaries in DH research.

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Interdisciplinary scholarly collaboration in data-intensive, public-funded, international digital humanities project work

Cited by 14 publications

References 24 publications

Digging into data management in public‐funded, international research in digital humanities

Digging into data management in public‐funded, international research in digital humanities

Cross-national digital humanities research collaborations: structure, patterns and themes

Digital humanities research: interdisciplinary collaborations, themes and implications to library and information science

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