Digital Humanities: Evaluation
DH Evaluation
Evaluation is as necessary and important in DH as it is for traditional projects in the humanities or sciences. Formal evaluation, peer review, and result replication are applied to DH projects as they are to any humanities initiatives. DH evaluation methods are unique because they tend to be transparent, discussion-based, and highly collaborative. Evaluation can occur as informally as group discussion, or formally following on the guidelines listed below.
Reading & Resources
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Best Practices for Digital Humanities Projects.
Digital Humanities at Berkeley. (2017). Technical Evaluation for Digital Humanities Projects.
Mattern, S.. (2012). Evaluating Multi-Modal Work, Revisited. Journal of Digital Humanities, Vol. 1, No. 4.
Presner, T. (2011). How to Evaluate Digital Scholarship.
Warwick, C., Terras, M., Galina, I., Huntington, P., and Pappa, N. (2007). Evaluating Digital Humanities Resources: The LAIRAH Project Checklist and the Internet Shakespeare Editions Project. University College of London.
Scholarly Societies
American Academy of Religion (2018). Guidelines for Evaluating Digital Scholarship.
American Historical Society (2015). Guidelines for Professional Evaluation of Digital Scholarship by Historians.
College Art Association and the Society of Architectural Historians (2016). Guidelines for the Evaluation of Digital Scholarship in Art and Architectural History.
Middle East Studies Association. MESA Guidelines for Evaluating Digital Scholarship.
Modern Language Association (2024). Guidelines for Evaluating Digital Scholarship.
Modern Language Association (2012). Guidelines for Evaluating Work in Digital Humanities and Digital Media.
Renaissance Society of America. Best Practices for Digital Scholarship.