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        Date: 2024-09-18 18:27:34+00:00
        From: Alan Liu <ayliu@english.ucsb.edu>
        Subject: New MLA "Guidelines for Evaluating Digital Scholarship"

Happy the MLA's new “Guidelines for Evaluating Digital Scholarship” have
now been published:

<https://www.mla.org/About-Us/Governance/Committees/Committee-
Listings/Professional-Issues/Committee-on-Information-Technology/Guidelines-for-
Evaluating-Digital-Scholarship>

It represents two years of work by our MLA Committee on Information
Technology to revise the previous, narrower “Guidelines for Evaluating Work
in Digital Humanities and Digital Media.”

The new guidelines extend ideas gathered from guidelines on evaluating
digital work for hiring, promotion, & tenure by other prof. associations &
DH orgs that appeared after the MLA’s influential previous guidelines of
2012. (See Appendix of quotes from other associations on pp. 40-45 in the
new guidelines.)

Key interventions of the new guidelines include: 
* expansion of scope to include a broader, deeper community of those 
who engage extensively in digital work (including but not limited to DH) 
& those in hybrid scholar/staff roles. 

Other interventions: extended or new recommendations regarding 
* documentation & explanation of digital work 
* “evergreen” digital work 
* peer-reviewing of digital work 
* collaboration & public humanities in digital work 
* digital teaching; 
* digital service.

Additional sections provide guidance on 
* developing a professional online presence 
* ensuring digital scholarship is ethical 
* enabling professional development & support for staff members who 
produce digital scholarship 
* framing humanities digital work in comparison to that in other disciplines.

Glad to be able to cap my career by helping to pass on what I have learned
about digital scholarship, & about the profession, in these new guidelines

The MLA Committee on Information Technology thanks many organizations and
associations for consultation on the new guidelines. Among organizations,
thanks go to:

   - Advanced Research Consortium (ARC) and NINES Networked Infrastructure
   for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship
   - Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO)
   - American Historical Association
   - American Sociological Association
   - College Art Association (CAA)
   - Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ)
   - MLA-CCCC Joint Task Force on Writing and AI
   - MLA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Humanities
   - MLA Committee on Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Profession
   - Princeton Center for Digital Humanities

--Alan Liu, chair during 2022-23 of the MLA Committee on Information
Technology


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