Alan LiuSep 16, 2024
Happy to announce the MLA’s new “Guidelines for Evaluating Digital Scholarship”: https://www.mla.org/About-Us/Governance/Committees/Committee-Listings/Professional-Issues/Committee-on-Information-Technology/Guidelines-for-Evaluating-Digital-Scholarship. It represents 2 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.”
Guidelines for Evaluating Digital Scholarship

Published by the Committee on Information Technology in 2024, these MLA guidelines are designed to help departments and scholars implement effective and fair evaluation procedures for hiring, reappointment, tenure, and promotion. They may also assist in...

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Show threadAlan LiuSep 16, 2024
The new MLA 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 in the new guidelines of quotes from other associations.
Show threadAlan LiuSep 16, 2024
Key interventions of MLA’s new “Guidelines for Evaluating Digital Scholarship” 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.
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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.
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Show threadAlan LiuSep 16, 2024
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.
Show threadAlan LiuSep 16, 2024
Glad to be able to cap my career by helping to pass on what I have learned about digital scholarship, & about the profession, in the MLA’s new “Guidelines for Evaluating Digital Scholarship”: https://www.mla.org/About-Us/Governance/Committees/Committee-Listings/Professional-Issues/Committee-on-Information-Technology/Guidelines-for-Evaluating-Digital-Scholarship.
Guidelines for Evaluating Digital Scholarship

Published by the Committee on Information Technology in 2024, these MLA guidelines are designed to help departments and scholars implement effective and fair evaluation procedures for hiring, reappointment, tenure, and promotion. They may also assist in...

Modern Language Association