Following the Digitization and the Humanities Symposium , Jennifer Schaffner and I wrote a brief report, The Impact of Digitizing Special Collections on Teaching and Scholarship: Reflections on a Symposium about Digitization and the Humanities (PDF — 10 pages). The report acts as a summary of the symposium, and also gives some calls to action.
One of the topics that came up for discussion during the symposium was use metrics. Here’s a snippet from the report.
A major take-away point from the symposium was: know your scholars. The RLG Programs partners
engaged with the call for measuring and evaluating the impact of special collections on research.
Alice Schreyer (University of Chicago) spoke of the plusses and minuses of existing metrics in
special collections, and called for unified practices…. [Paul] Courant had a slightly different view… a provost is looking for a few top
faculty members to say that special collections (digita...
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