Comments on: (Quasi-Make) Proposal: Check Me Out: Digital History Evaluations http://aha2014.thatcamp.org/2014/01/04/quasi-make-proposal-check-me-out-digital-history-evaluations/ At the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association | Washington, D.C. | January 5, 2014 Wed, 15 Jan 2014 03:01:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 By: JMcClurken http://aha2014.thatcamp.org/2014/01/04/quasi-make-proposal-check-me-out-digital-history-evaluations/#comment-59 Sat, 04 Jan 2014 13:49:35 +0000 http://aha2014.thatcamp.org/?p=218#comment-59 Oddly enough, I logged on this morning prepared to suggest my own version of this session (though I doubt it would have been as well thought out as Jennifer’s proposal). One of the issues we run in to in evaluating digital scholarship is that it comes in so many forms and I would argue the reviewer needs to understand at least the broad outlines of those forms to evaluate the project on its merits.

So, yes, this is definitely a conversation we need to have. Even better if we can emerge from the session with with an “evaluative framework” (or two or three) for historians.

[Full disclosure: I have a vested interest in this conversation since I’m the contributing editor for Digital History Reviews at the JAH.]

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