Is Digital Scholarship Meaningful?: A Campus Study Tracking Multidisciplinary Perceptions

Increased computational and multimodal approaches to research over the past decades have enabled scholars and learners to forge creative avenues of inquiry, adopt new methodological approaches, and interrogate information in innovative ways. As such, academic libraries have begun to offer a suite of services to support these digitally inflected and data-intense research strategies. These supports, dubbed digital scholarship services in the library profession, break traditional disciplinary boundaries and highlight the methodological significance of research inquiry. Externally, however, these practices appear as domain-specific niches, e.g., digital history or digital humanities in humanities disciplines, e-science and e-research in STEM, and e-social science or computational social science in social science disciplines. The authors conducted a study examining the meaningfulness of the term digital scholarship within the local context at University of Colorado Boulder by investigating how the interpretation of digital scholarship varies according to graduate students, faculty, and other researchers. Nearly half of the definitions (46 percent) mentioned research process or methods as part of digital scholarship. Faculty and staff declined or were unable to define digital scholarship more often than graduate students or post-doctoral researchers. Therefore, digital scholarship as a term is not meaningful to all researchers. We recommend that librarians inflect their practices with the understanding that researchers and library users’ perceptions of digital scholarship vary greatly across contexts.

Review of the Book “Historical Memory in Social Media” by Sophia Tikhonova, Denis Artamonov

The subject of review is the book “Historical Memory in Social Media” by Sofya Tikhonova and Denis Artamonov. In the book, the authors focus on the design and specification of the production of images of the past on the Internet and the gaming industry, referring to various materials, from text “fake” messages and memes to computer games. Research is not limited to the description of empirical data. The supporting structure of the research is the author's concept of digital history and digital philosophy of history. Research optics is aimed at determining the status of the digital subject of history, which seems to be an acute anthropological and socio-philosophical problem. The book discusses the issues of modification of the politics of memory, the production of “fakes”, the connotation of historical events, the trend of miniaturization of history and the crisis of great narratives. Considerable attention is paid to the everyday everyday practices of information production, woven into the context of “history making”. The review pays attention to all the main structural parts of the book and reproduces the logical sequence of the key ideas of the text. With references to the original author's text, the reviewer also gives his own interpretations of the conceptual and terminological innovations of the book, and also focuses on some controversial aspects of the research.

MEDIA KATALOG DIGITAL UNTUK PEMBELAJARAN SEJARAH DI MASA PANDEMI COVID-19

Various new problems emerged after history learning which is currently carried out online due to the Covid-19 virus pandemic. Thes new problems make the promblems in history learning more diverse after conventional history learning also experiences many problems. Various problems that arise in online history learning such as students who are easily bored and tired, student who increasingly do not understand the material presented, students who are inceasingly not interested in online history learning, students do not always pay attention and are not easy to monitor after learning online history. The purpose of this research is to overcome various problems that occur due to online history learning through the use of the Digital History Catalog learning media. This study uses a research method in the form of descriptive qualitative research. The result showed that uses of appropriate, innovative, interactive learning media and being able to adapt to online learning was needed both by students and by the teachers themselves. Media such as the Digital History Catalog can overcome the problems that occur due to online history learning. Digital History Catalog Media can adjust the material to be delivered according to those listed in the KI and KD of history learning. Keywords: History Learning, Covid-19 Pandemic, History Digital Catalog. Abstrak Berbagai permasalahan baru muncul setelah pembelajaran sejarah yang saat ini dilakukan secara online akibat terjadinya pandemi virus Covid-19. Masalah-masalah baru tersebut membuat masalah dalam pembelajaran sejarah semakin beragam setelah pembelajaran sejarah secara konvensional pun mengalami banyak permasalahan. Berbagai masalah yang muncul dalam pembelajaran sejarah online seperti misalnya siswa yang mudah cepat bosan dan lelah, siswa yang semakin tidak paham tentang materi yang disampaikan, siswa yang tidak tertarik dengan pembelajaran sejarah online, siswa tidak selalu memperhatikan dan tidak mudah untuk dipantau setelah dilakukannya pembelajaran sejarah online. Tujuan dari penelitian yang dilakukan ini ialah untuk mengatasi berbagai permasalah yang terjadi akibat pembelajaran sejarah online melalui sebuah penggunaan media pembelajaran Katalog Digital Sejarah. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian berupa penelitian kualitatif deskriptif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa penggunaan media pembelajaran yang tepat, inovatif, dan interakitf serta mampu menyesuaikan dengan pembelajaran online sangat dibutuhkan baik oleh siswa maupun oleh guru sendiri. Media seperti Katalog Digital Sejarah dapat mengatasi permasalahan-permasalahan yang terjadi akibat pembelajaran sejarah online. Media Katalog Digital Sejarah dapat menyesuaikan materi yang akan disampaikan sesuai dengan yang tercantum dalam KI dan KD pembelajaran sejarah. Kata Kunci: Pembelajaran Sejarah; Pandemi Covid-19; Katalog Digital Sejarah

SEEFELDT, Douglas & THOMAS, William G. DH Project: Digital History Project. Lincoln. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2006-2014.

En este documento se analizan las diferentes funcionalidades y actividades recogidas en la página web del proyecto desarrollado por la Universidad de Nebraska-Lincoln denominado “Digital History Project” y de su posible interés para expertos e interesados en el aprendizaje y aplicación de las nuevas tecnologías en el estudio de la Historia.

Critical Digital Archives: A Review from Archival Studies

Given the blurring of boundaries between historians and archivists in the digital realm, this article urges historians to pay more attention to discussions surrounding digital records and archival practices emerging from critical archival studies. More specifically, this article identifies and summarizes seven key themes and corresponding debates about digital records in contemporary archival studies scholarship: (1) materiality, (2) appraisal, (3) context, (4) use, (5) scale, (6) relationships, and (7) sustainability. A deeper knowledge of digital archival theory and practice—how records came to be in digital archives, the infrastructures that maintain them, and the tools necessary to provide access to and context for them—is not ancillary to historical work, but provides important context to do digital history better.

Meten van verzuilde politiek in media

Sinds het einde van de vorige eeuw houden mediahistorici zich meer bezig met de manier waarop media-inhoud tot stand is gekomen en welke betekenis dat heeft gehad voor publieksgroepen en maatschappelijk-politieke realiteiten. In dit artikel wordt gepoogd deze benadering te combineren met digital history, aan de hand van het verzuilingsdebat en gebruik makend van de digitale krantencollectie van de Koninklijke Bibliotheek van Nederland. Enerzijds wordt onderzocht in hoeverre de veronderstelde ideologische gebondenheid van dagbladen in de jaren 1918-1967 zichtbaar wordt in de hoeveelheid kopij waarmee katholieke en sociaaldemocratische kranten over politiek hebben bericht en hoe verschillen daarin te verklaren zijn. Anderzijds wordt door het testen van kwantitatieve methoden uit de digital humanities geprobeerd een bijdrage te leveren aan digitale bronnenkritiek voor historisch onderzoek.Since the end of the last century media historians have taken an interest in researching the origins and development of media content and its significance for audiences and socio-political realities. This article seeks to combine this approach with digital history. It does so by focusing on the pillarisation debate and by utilising the digital newspaper collection of the National Library of the Netherlands. On the one hand, this article investigates to what extent the ideological background of the Catholic and Social Democratic press is actually reflected in the number of newspaper articles reporting on politics written between 1918-1967, and how any differences can be explained. On the other hand, by testing quantitative methods from the digital humanities, the article attempts to contribute to digital source criticism for historical research.