CAA Task Force on Digital Art and Architectural History Wiki - User contributions [en]

Universities and Individuals

2015-02-13T17:48:32Z

ARumsey:

Alka Patel at the University of California Irvine. She has been trying to get more tenure acknowledgment for her architectural fieldwork photography and sharing it in ARTstor. (Suggestion from one of the researcher applicants)

Nancy Troy, Chair, Stanford University Art and Art History

UCLA, Dept of Art HIstory (especially Diane Favro)

Berkeley, Art History

Pittsburgh, History of Art & Architecture (esp. the Chair, Barbara McCloskey)

Niall Atkinson, U of Chicago, Dept of Art HIstory (assistant Prof. perspective)

Rob Borke, U of Iowa, Art History (former chair and user of CAD and other digital tools)

Susan Siegfried, History of Art and Women's Studies, U of Michigan (former Getty Projects Manager)

Jesus Escobar, Chair, Art History, Northwestern U.

University of Virginia, McIntire Dept of Art

Jonathan Hay, IFA, New York

Columbia University, Art History and Archeology Dept.

Suzanne Blier, Harvard University

Nancy J. Troy, Chair of Dept. of Art & Art History, Stanford; https://art.stanford.edu/people/nancy-j-troy

Jeffrey Schnapp, Harvard University - FAS/GSD

Dianne Harris, Director, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities & Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Mark Jarzombek, Professor & Interim Dean, School of Architecture, MIT

Sharon Haar, Professor & Chair of Architecture, University of Michigan

Diane Favro, Professor, UCLA School of Architecture and Urban Design

Beatriz Colomina, Director of Graduate Studies & Director of Program in Media and Modernity, School of Architecture, Princeton University

John Unsworth, CIO, Brandeis University Library

Jud Harward, Harvard University

Andrew Tallon, Vassar http://mappinggothic.org/person/338

Reto Geiser, Rice http://arch.rice.edu/People/Faculty/Reto-Geiser/

Felicity Scott, GSAPP-Columbia http://www.arch.columbia.edu/about/people/fs2248columbiaedu

Abigail Van Slyck, Connecticut College http://www.conncoll.edu/directories/faculty-profiles/abigail-van-slyck/

Dietrich Neumann, Brown, http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/people/facultypage.php?id=10274

David Brownlee, UPenn http://www.sas.upenn.edu/arthistory/people/profile/david-brownlee

Caroline Bruzelius (Duke). http://aahvs.duke.edu/people/profile/caroline-bruzelius

Swati Chattopadhyay, professor and department chair, UCSB. http://www.arthistory.ucsb.edu/faculty/chattopadhyay.html

Hilary Ballon, Ballon worked to create JSAH online, one of the first scholarly journals that could be illustrated with multimedia content http://wagner.nyu.edu/ballon

Todd Presner, founder of HyperCities, thick mapping in the digital humanities, http://www.toddpresner.com/

Cathy N. Davidson, co-founder of HASTAC, the Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance Collaboratory, http://www.hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson

Ted J. Ligibel, Director Historic Preservation Program with concentration in Digital Heritage, Eastern Michigan University, http://emich.edu/geo/preservation tligibel@emich.edu

Ellen Faran, director of MIT Press. she has been active in recruiting non-print "monographs" in visual culture, art history, etc and has experience with peer review processes; Duke U Press also active in developing multi-media publishing models

Anne Whiston Spirn - Anne has been involved in developing e-books and in discussions about digital scholarship.

Johanna Drucker, Chair, Digital Humanities Program, and Professor of Germanic Languages and Comparative Literature

Katina Rodgers, Associate Director, Futures Initiative

Neil Freistat, Director of MITH

Lev Manovich, CUNY

Joan Saab, University of Rochester

Anne Kelly Knowles, Middlebury College

Jon Ippolito, University of Maine

Sheila Brennan, George Mason University

Miriam Posner, Digital Humanities Program Coordinator, UCLA

Hussein Keshani, Associate Professor of Art History, The University of British Columbia

Todd Presner, Chair, Digital Humanities Program, and Professor of Germanic Languages and Comparative Literature, UCLA

Steven Nelson, Associate Professor of African and African American Art History, ULA

Diane Zorich

Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Director of Scholarly Publication for the Modern Language Association

William Sherman, Professor of Architecture & Associate Vice President for Research, School of Architecture, University of Virginia (current head of P&T committee)

Definition of Terms

2015-02-04T18:30:02Z

ARumsey:

;Task Force: Group of individuals assigned a specific task to complete
;Wiki: A website that allows visitors to make changes, contributions, or corrections

;Authorship: authorship refers to assigning credit to the individual or individuals responsible for the production of the scholarly work. Unlike traditional publications in which authorship is relatively easy to assign to an individual author or a series of co-authors or editors, digital scholarship is frequently more collaborative and authorship is more diffuse. In some fields, such as medicine and the social sciences, authorship is not restricted to writing a manuscript, but may also include those who made significant contributions to conceptualization, revision or review, and realization.
;Digital Art and Architectural History: Research focused on significant art and architectural historical problems which include digital and computational methods and tools that are integral to the argument. Digital art history may be basic or applied research. This may included, but is not limited to: visualizations relying on digital technologies, including 3-D modeling and mapping; research designed for and presented in born-digital platforms; computational methods employed for art historical research (e.g., corpus linguistics); statistical or other digital exploration of big data; production of a digital archive or other online art historical resource; etc.
;Collaborative Research: any art and architectural historical research that involves more than one scholar who has contributed in a significant capacity to the development, content or digital presentation of the scholarship. Collaborators should be acknowledged specifically either in the author byline, in the first footnote or in a similar appropriate site. Collaborators should also be listed according to their contribution, if their contribution is not otherwise clear.
;Outcomes: Traditionally, scholarly research requires explicit and defined outcomes in order for it to "count" for promotion and tenure--even though securing funding for research through grants, fellowships, etc., is a kind of an outcome, since it demonstrates the importance of the research. Traditional outcomes include publishing or otherwise distributing the findings of the research in the form of articles, books, exhibitions, lectures, etc. For digital scholarship, the definition of outcomes must be more expansive to include a broad range of digital and/or web-based work.
;Peer Review: Peer review is the evaluation of scholarly work or research by a relevant expert in order to determine if the work should be published or the research should be funded. For promotion and tenure, peer reviewed work is generally given more weight than non-peer reviewed work. Peer review of digital scholarship is still in flux because the standards and methods of review for databases, GIS, modeling and other digital outcomes are different than for traditional publications, regardless of whether these are print or digital.
;Process: process indicates the intellectual give and take that occurs in the formation of a final argument. In digital art history, process is often included separately as a "Project Narrative" that clarifies the methodological decisions and implications that led to the final work.
;Project Narrative: an account of the process by which the scholar and/or her collaborators developed the final argument. Project narratives must include information on the development or application of digital technologies central to the scholarship. They should also indicate the contribution of various collaborators.
;Publication: making a work public. Scholarly publication specifically means that a work is made public in a form that is accessible to peer review, with the goal of ensuring accuracy, authenticity, and scholarly value. In the print-on-paper regime, processes for submission, review, and formal publication was normalized through books and journals. Long-term access to those publications was secured through libraries. Digital publishing genres, review processes, and warrants of long-term access are still moot.
;Research: Research in digital art and architectural history can have specific uses and applications that should be described and recognized in the review and hiring process. These include:
;A) Developmental Digital Humanities Research: Digital Art and Architectural History that focuses particular attention on significant programming, coding or the development of tools and other technologies that are of value to art and architectural historical research. This may include, for example, developing a new means of visualizing historical buildings and environments.
;B) Research that Uses Digital Methods: Digital Art and Architectural History research that takes preexisting digital tools or methods and applies them to art historical problems with little to no change to the digital tool itself. This may include, for example, the use of GIS to explore spatial distribution of galleries in a specific place and time.
;C) Experimental Research that Combines Digital and Humanities Methods: Projects that clearly articulate research questions that combine both art and architectural historical problems and methods with computational problems and methods. This may include, for example, the analysis of a "big data" set of codices through corpus linguistics that both advances the interpretation of the art historical significance of the data set as well as offers new digital methods and insights in corpus linguistics.
;Scholarly Practice

Universities and Individuals

2015-02-04T18:19:33Z

ARumsey:

Alka Patel at the University of California Irvine. She has been trying to get more tenure acknowledgment for her architectural fieldwork photography and sharing it in ARTstor. (Suggestion from one of the researcher applicants)

Nancy Troy, Chair, Stanford University Art and Art History

UCLA, Dept of Art HIstory (especially Diane Favro)

Berkeley, Art History

Pittsburgh, History of Art & Architecture (esp. the Chair, Barbara McCloskey)

Niall Atkinson, U of Chicago, Dept of Art HIstory (assistant Prof. perspective)

Rob Borke, U of Iowa, Art History (former chair and user of CAD and other digital tools)

Susan Siegfried, History of Art and Women's Studies, U of Michigan (former Getty Projects Manager)

Jesus Escobar, Chair, Art History, Northwestern U.

University of Virginia, McIntire Dept of Art

Jonathan Hay, IFA, New York

Columbia University, Art History and Archeology Dept.

Suzanne Blier, Harvard University

Jeffrey Schnapp, Harvard University - FAS/GSD

Dianne Harris, Director, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities & Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Mark Jarzombek, Professor & Interim Dean, School of Architecture, MIT

Sharon Haar, Professor & Chair of Architecture, University of Michigan

Diane Favro, Professor, UCLA School of Architecture and Urban Design

Beatriz Colomina, Director of Graduate Studies & Director of Program in Media and Modernity, School of Architecture, Princeton University

John Unsworth, CIO, Brandeis University Library

Jud Harward, Harvard University

Andrew Tallon, Vassar http://mappinggothic.org/person/338

Reto Geiser, Rice http://arch.rice.edu/People/Faculty/Reto-Geiser/

Felicity Scott, GSAPP-Columbia http://www.arch.columbia.edu/about/people/fs2248columbiaedu

Abigail Van Slyck, Connecticut College http://www.conncoll.edu/directories/faculty-profiles/abigail-van-slyck/

Dietrich Neumann, Brown, http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/people/facultypage.php?id=10274

David Brownlee, UPenn http://www.sas.upenn.edu/arthistory/people/profile/david-brownlee

Caroline Bruzelius (Duke). http://aahvs.duke.edu/people/profile/caroline-bruzelius

Swati Chattopadhyay, professor and department chair, UCSB. http://www.arthistory.ucsb.edu/faculty/chattopadhyay.html

Hilary Ballon, Ballon worked to create JSAH online, one of the first scholarly journals that could be illustrated with multimedia content http://wagner.nyu.edu/ballon

Todd Presner, founder of HyperCities, thick mapping in the digital humanities, http://www.toddpresner.com/

Cathy N. Davidson, co-founder of HASTAC, the Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance Collaboratory, http://www.hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson

Ted J. Ligibel, Director Historic Preservation Program with concentration in Digital Heritage, Eastern Michigan University, http://emich.edu/geo/preservation tligibel@emich.edu

Ellen Faran, director of MIT Press. she has been active in recruiting non-print "monographs" in visual culture, art history, etc and has experience with peer review processes; Duke U Press also active in developing multi-media publishing models

Universities and Individuals

2015-02-02T14:41:13Z

ARumsey:

Questions

2015-01-28T22:45:24Z

ARumsey:

*Are there students and faculty in your department who are using digital tools and sources for their primary research?
*If so, please describe the content and technology used.
**What support does your institution offer for development of digital research projects? Do you have support from Academic Technology or Educational Technology services? The Library?
**Where do you find expertise such as programmers, web developers, and other technologists to work with?
*Is your department or school prepared to evaluate digital research projects for promotion?
*If so, how would you approach the evaluation?
*Does your institution have faculty members with expertise in digital scholarship in the humanities?
*Is it necessary for the student or faculty member being evaluated to call in an expert in digital media and an expert in their sub discipline to evaluate a digital research project?
*If so, how are these individuals identified?
*What categories of criteria should be addressed for all digital research projects? How do you define each category?
*Does your institution require a student or faculty member to prepare a written description of their digital research project before being reviewed for promotion or tenure?
*Does your institution have a working definition of digital scholarship? digital art history?
*Does your institution have clear standards for evaluating applied versus basic research in the digital scholarship? Are these terms that are familiar to you? [TO BE EDITED BY PBJ]
*How are collaborative projects more generally evaluated within your department (e.g., work on an exhibition, co-editing an anthology, etc.)? Do you have specific guidelines in your personnel bylaws for this?
*Do you think digital art history is the same as art history? if not, what elements of digital scholarship work do you see as distinctive, especially in regards to evaluating their quality or impact?