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Four Roles For Digital Scholars
- 1. our Roles Four Roles for Digital Scholars and the Skills They Need Jeremy Boggs Creative Lead Center for History and New Media
- 2. About Jeremy ‣ Creative Lead at the Center for History and New Media ‣ I'm a web designer/web developer/information architect/project manager. ‣ PhD student in the Department of History and Art History at Mason ‣ Currently teach Clio Wired 2 at George Mason, slated to teach History in the Digital Age at American University.
- 3. History and New Media at George Mason
- 4. History and New Media at Mason ‣ Two required new media courses ‣ Clio Wired 1 – Intellectual and theoretical issues ‣ Clio Wired 2 – Practical issues and skills ‣ Minor Field in History and New Media ‣ Two additional courses ‣ Independent readings ‣ Minor Field Statement
- 5. Mason’s History PhD Program CHNM provides practical work opportunities for students interested in history and new media.
- 6. Four Roles
- 7. 1 Project Manager
- 8. Project Manager Project managers provide the tools, information, and contexts with which others on a project team can do their job. Document goals, requirements and milestones.
- 9. Project Manager – Skills and Tools Some Skills and Tools: ‣ Project management software and techniques. ‣ Wikis and collaborative writing tools. ‣ Organizing and running meetings. ‣ Conference call, video chat. ‣ Balance theoretical and practical. ‣ Manage people.
- 10. Project Manager – Why? Digital scholarship is best when it is collaborative. Project Managers strive for teamwork and cooperation, organize people with seemingly disparate skill sets to collaborate toward a common goal.
- 11. 2 Information Manager
- 12. Information Manager On individual and group level, information managers deal with the onslaught of information. They collect, sort, search, and share information in various ways.
- 13. Information Manager – Skills and Tools ‣ Search (More than Google). ‣ Using Zotero, CiteULike, Connotea, other bibliographic collecting and sharing services. ‣ RSS/Newsreader ‣ Metadata Standards ‣ Information Architecture ‣ Site Maps ‣ Page Wireframes ‣ Content Inventories
- 14. Information Manager – Why? Abundance of available information makes managing it, critiquing it, using it effectively even more valuable. Need people who respect information, can help others find and use it.
- 15. 3 Creative Director
- 16. Creative Director Creative directors...direct creativity and creation of products. They foster it, live it, breathe it, expect it from their peers and coworkers.
- 17. Creative Director – Skills and Tools ‣ Basic graphic design knowledge; graphical composition ‣ HTML/CSS ‣ Basic programming – PHP, JavaScript ‣ Databases ‣ Image and video editing ‣ Mapping ‣ APIs
- 18. Creative Director – Why? Creative Directors are critical users of tools and techniques; They want the best set of tools for the job at hand.
- 19. 4 Outreach Coordinator
- 20. Outreach Coordinator Outreach coordinators get the word out about a project, create networks and communities, and always look for new things others are doing.
- 21. Outreach Coordinator – Skills and Tools ‣ Twitter ‣ Weblogs ‣ RSS ‣ Facebook ‣ SlideShare ‣ Vimeo/YouTube ‣ Flickr/Image sharing
- 22. Outreach Coordinator – Why? Information moves quickly, more projects are produced. Need skills of an outreach coordinator to track those changes, connect with users, ensure that your project is relevant outside your niche.
- 23. Old Roles, but New Skills
- 24. Thanks! Contact me: ‣ Email: jeremy@clioweb.org ‣ Instant Messenger – jboggs22 (AIM) ‣ Skype – chnm_jeremy_boggs ‣ ClioWeb – http://clioweb.org ‣ Twitter – http://twitter.com/clioweb ‣ Zotero – http://zotero.org/clioweb ‣ SlideShare – http://slideshare.com/clioweb