Job talk delivered at Haverford College, 3/29/2016.

1. Digital Scholarship &
the Liberal Arts
Jordan Howell • @JordanmHowell • jmhowell@udel.edu

2. About me
▪ Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Delaware
▪ Dissertation: “Book Abridgment in Eighteenth-Century
England”
▪ Data Management Coordinator, The Colored Conventions
Project
▪ Editor, The Robinson Crusoe Online Bibliography

3. Source: The English Short Title Catalogue (Link)

4. Source: The Robinson Crusoe Online Bibliography (Link)

5. Source: The Robinson Crusoe Online Bibliography (Link)

6. Source: The Colored Conventions Project (Link)

7. Source: Delaware Historical Society and The Colored Conventions Project

8. Challenges and opportunities
1. Infrastructure and Project Development
2. Data Curation and Intellectual Property
3. Digital Tools and Methodologies

9. 1: Project Development
Brown University. The Center for Computation and Visualization. Source: Lippincott, Hemmasi,
and Lewis, "Trends in Digital Scholarship Centers" (Link)

10. Brown University. The Granoff Center for the Creative Arts. Source: Lippincott, Hemmasi,
and Lewis, "Trends in Digital Scholarship Centers" (Link)
1: Project Development

11. Brown University. The Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab. Source: Lippincott, Hemmasi,
and Lewis, "Trends in Digital Scholarship Centers" (Link)
1: Project Development

12. “Digital scholarship has active learning at its core:
students, faculty, librarians, and academic
technologists are learning through practice and
through working together in multi-disciplinary
teams.”
Source: Fyffe, Siesing, and Snyder, “Digital Scholarship and Liberal Arts Colleges” (Link)
1: Project Development

13. Collaborative Group Project for Business and Technical Communication. Source: Dare to Be Green
1: Project Development

14. Bryn Mawr Wikipedia Project Page. Source: Wikipedia (Link)
1: Project Development

15. University of Delaware Wikipedia Project Page. Source: Wikipedia (Link)
1: Project Development

16. University of Delaware Wikipedia Organizers. Source: Wikipedia (Link)
1: Project Development

17. “the active and ongoing management of datas
throughout its entire lifecycle of interest and
usefulness to scholarship.”
Source: Cragin, et al. (2007). “An Educational Program on Data Curation” (Link)
2: Data Curation

18. Curation Lifecycle Model. Source: Digital Curation Centre (Link)
2: Data Curation

19. “Datas curators intervene in the research process in
order to translate or migrate data into new formats,
to enhance it through additional layers of context or
markup, to create connections between datasets,
and to otherwise ensure that data is maintained in
as highly-functional a form as possible.”
Source: Julia Flanders and Trevor Muñoz, “An Introduction to Humanities Data Curation” (Link)
2: Data Curation

20. Source: WorldCat (Link)
2: Data Curation

21. Source: University of Delaware Library (Link)
2: Data Curation

22. Source: The Colored Conventions Project (Link)
2: Data Curation

23. ▪In the Liberal Arts College setting, data
curation may not resemble other types of
student scholarship
▪Data curation is rigorous scholarly work that
contributes to the success of a project as
equally as other forms of authorship
2: Data Curation

24. Strategic Planning Development
Faculty
Students
Students
Library
Faculty
Project
Team
Conceptualization
2: Data Curation
DSL

25. Liberal Arts Colleges are well-positioned to
become incubators for developing new
models of collaborative authorship among
students and faculty engaged in digital
scholarship.
2: Data Curation

26. Digital scholarship is not so much a singular and
coherent academic field as it is a community of
practice that employs digital tools and
methodologies across disciplines to ask new
questions and find new answers.
3: Digital Tools and Methodologies

27. 3: Digital Tools and Methodologies

28. Thank you
Jordan Howell • @JordanmHowell • jmhowell@udel.edu