Definition of Terms

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 and Architectural 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 and Architectural History research that combines both art and architectural 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 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.