Difference between revisions of "Definition of Terms"
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;Wiki: A website that allows visitors to make changes, contributions, or corrections | ;Wiki: A website that allows visitors to make changes, contributions, or corrections | ||
;Applied Research: Digital Art History research that takes preexisting digital tools or methods (e.g., GIS) and applies them to art historical problems with little to no change to the digital tool itself | ;Applied Research: Digital Art History research that takes preexisting digital tools or methods (e.g., GIS) and applies them to art historical problems with little to no change to the digital tool itself | ||
| + | ;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. | ||
;Basic Research: Digital Art History research that combines both art historical problems and methods with computational problems and methods, including significant programming, coding or the development of other technologies | ;Basic Research: Digital Art History research that combines both art historical problems and methods with computational problems and methods, including significant programming, coding or the development of other technologies | ||
;Digital Art History: Research focused on significant art historical problems which include digital 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. | ;Digital Art History: Research focused on significant art historical problems which include digital 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 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. | ;Collaborative Research: any art 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. | ||
;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. | ;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. | ;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. | ||
Revision as of 14:42, 28 January 2015
- Task Force
- Group of individuals assigned a specific task to complete
- Wiki
- A website that allows visitors to make changes, contributions, or corrections
- Applied Research
- Digital Art History research that takes preexisting digital tools or methods (e.g., GIS) and applies them to art historical problems with little to no change to the digital tool itself
- 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.
- Basic Research
- Digital Art History research that combines both art historical problems and methods with computational problems and methods, including significant programming, coding or the development of other technologies
- Digital Art History
- Research focused on significant art historical problems which include digital 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 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.
- 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.
