Creating a community of practice on Digital Scholarship at large institutions like the University of Texas at Austin is difficult. We invite participants to discuss what large institutions like UT could do to create a connected community of practitioners working to share and discuss what they learned when they applied digital methods in their research and teaching.

Evaluation of student projects in the digital humanities is notoriously difficult. Rubrics and guidelines designed for essay writing do not transfer easily to a digital context. Rigidly structured expectations often curtail the very kind of creative failure that digital humanists embrace.  Yet students and administrations alike expect fair and effective evaluations of student work. This workshop […]