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Purpose, completeness, and evidential source: Typological signposts in the collections landscape
Author(s) -
Fenlon Katrina,
Grimmer Jessica H.,
Thurston Courtnie
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
proceedings of the association for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.193
H-Index - 14
ISSN - 2373-9231
DOI - 10.1002/pra2.262
Subject(s) - scholarship , digital scholarship , principal (computer security) , data science , digital humanities , scholarly communication , sociology , computer science , world wide web , political science , art , literature , publishing , law , operating system
The diversification of digital scholarship poses significant challenges to integrating non‐traditional products of humanities scholarship—ranging from digital editions and linked data aggregations to software and virtual environments—into established ecosystems for sustaining and preserving scholarly communication. Without a strong understanding of the variety of forms of digital scholarship, it is difficult to establish broadly useful or systematic (and therefore sustainable) approaches to managing diverse digital products throughout their lifecycles. This study illuminates one region of the landscape of digital humanities scholarship by identifying and characterizing different types of scholar‐generated digital collections which make different contributions to scholarship. Through formal typological analysis of approximately 200 scholar‐generated digital humanities research collections, this study offers conceptual handles for understanding the principal purposes and contributions of digital collections, and the implications for evaluation, sustainment, and preservation of digital scholarship.