From: "Joan K. Lippincott" Sender: To: CNI-ANNOUNCE Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 14:40:00 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [108.45.24.216] (account joan@cni.org HELO [192.168.1.84]) by cni.org (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 6.0.9) with ESMTPSA id 30549203; Thu, 12 May 2016 11:32:28 -0400 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Apple-Mail=_B9DE447E-6BB5-4FA2-9939-CEB35E5CEEA5" X-Original-Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 11:32:28 -0400 Subject: Supporting Digital Humanities - CNI Executive Roundtable Report X-Original-To: "cni-announce@cni.org (cni-announce@cni.org)" X-Original-Message-Id: <4F76D0AC-B468-4706-9716-4B9F3ACA5941@cni.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.6 \(1510\)) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1510) --Apple-Mail=_B9DE447E-6BB5-4FA2-9939-CEB35E5CEEA5 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Dear cni-announce subscribers: I am pleased to announce that a report of two sessions of a CNI = Executive Roundtable on Supporting Digital Humanities is now available = at = https://www.cni.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/CNI-SupportDH-exec-rndtbl.r= eport.F14.pdf In this report, we summarize the state of play of support for digital = humanities at many of our member institutions. We were pleased that we = had representatives from many types of higher education institutions and = individuals representing many kinds of roles - library administrators, = technologists, faculty, and others, so that we had a variety of = perspectives on the topics discussed. The report describes some of the = models employed at various campuses and explores some of the key issues = that arose, such as types of staff expertise needed, lifecycle support = for projects, and the problems of acceptability of some forms of digital = scholarship outputs in promotion and tenure processes. The roundtables = were held at the December, 2014 CNI membership meeting. CNI has had an ongoing interest in supporting digital scholarship. = Additional resources on our website include a report and program = descriptions from a Digital Scholarship Centers: Trends and Good = Practice Workshop held in spring, 2014 = https://www.cni.org/events/cni-workshops/digital-scholarship-centers-cni-w= orkshop and a number of videos and presentations on this topic from our = membership meetings - see, for example the items listed in the category = "digital humanities" on our website: https://www.cni.org/category/topics/digital-humanities In addition, CNI is currently working with the EDUCAUSE Center for = Analysis and Research (ECAR) Working Group on Developing Digital = Humanities Support to produce a paper on this topic. We will announce = it's availability on cni-announce. --Joan Lippincott, CNI= --Apple-Mail=_B9DE447E-6BB5-4FA2-9939-CEB35E5CEEA5 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Dear = cni-announce subscribers:

I am pleased to announce = that a report of two sessions of a CNI Executive Roundtable on = Supporting Digital Humanities is now available at

In this = report, we summarize the state of play of support for digital humanities = at many of our member institutions. We were pleased that we had = representatives from many types of higher education institutions and = individuals representing many kinds of roles - library administrators, = technologists, faculty, and others, so that we had a variety of = perspectives on the topics discussed. The report describes some of the = models employed at various campuses and explores some of the key issues = that arose, such as types of staff expertise needed, lifecycle support = for projects, and the problems of acceptability of some forms of digital = scholarship outputs in promotion and tenure processes. The roundtables = were held at the December, 2014 CNI membership = meeting.

CNI has had an ongoing interest in = supporting digital scholarship. Additional resources on our website = include a report and program descriptions from a Digital Scholarship = Centers: Trends and Good Practice Workshop held in spring, 2014 https://www.cni.org/events/cni-workshops/digital-scholars= hip-centers-cni-workshop
and a number of videos and = presentations on this topic from our membership meetings - see, for = example the items listed in the category "digital humanities" on our = website:

= In addition, CNI is currently working with the EDUCAUSE Center for = Analysis and Research (ECAR) Working Group on Developing Digital = Humanities Support to produce a paper on this topic. We will announce = it's availability on cni-announce.

--Joan = Lippincott, CNI
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