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Short Guide to Evaluation of Digital Work – Mlawiki

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Modern Language Association provides this guide to evaluating digital work for promotion and tenure in the academic world. The main criteria it proposes are:

  • accessibility
  • reviews
  • expert consultations
  • dissemination through conferences and publications
  • linkages
  • assessment
  • deposit plan

This short guide gathers a collection of questions evaluators can ask about a project, a check list of what to look for in a project, and some ideas about how to find experts in one place. This assumes that evaluators who are assessing digital work for promotion and tenure are: Are new to the review of digital scholarly work and therefore could use a framework of questions to start with, Prepared to review the materials submitted by a candidate in the form it was meant to be accessed but need ideas of what to look for, and Will also ask for expert reviews from others and therefore need suggestions on where to look for relevant expertise. This is an annotated expansion on the Evaluating Digital Work PDF which was prepared as a one page checklist for a presentation to the ADE/ADFL in 2007 see blog entry about the event.

via Short Guide to Evaluation of Digital Work – Mlawiki.

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Sorin Adam Matei

Assistant Vice President for Partnerships in Strategic Defense Innnovation and Professor of Communication at Purdue University, Director of the FORCES initiative leads research teams that study the relationship between technological and social systems using big data, simulation, and mapping approaches. He published papers and articles in Journal of Communication, Communication Research, Information Society, National Interest, and Foreign Policy. He is the author or co-editor of several books. The most recent is Structural differentation in social media. He also co-edited Ethical Reasoning in Big Data,Transparency in social media and Roles, Trust, and Reputation in Social Media Knowledge Markets: Theory and Methods (Computational Social Sciences) , all three the product of the NSF funded KredibleNet project. Dr. Matei's teaching portfolio includes technology and strategy, online interaction, and digital media analytics classes. A former BBC World Service journalist, his contributions have been published in Esquire and several leading Romanian newspapers. In Romania, he is known for his books Boierii Mintii (The Mind Boyars), Idolii forului (Idols of the forum), and Idei de schimb (Spare ideas).

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