What is Digital Scholarship

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Digital scholarship involves more than using information and communication technologies to research, teach, and collaborate. It includes embracing the open values, ideology, and potential of technologies derived from peer-to-peer networking in order to benefit both the academy and the society. Learn more in: Let the Learners Take the Lead for Their Lifelong Learning Journey

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In Hong Kong, universities and libraries tend to use the term “Digital Scholarship” instead of “Digital Humanities” so as to convey a message to the university communities that this methodology is not limited to the humanities, but can be applied to all disciplines. Learn more in: Expanding Scale and Deepening Engagement in Digital Humanities: From an Overview of Hong Kong to Institution-Specific Outcomes and Future Directions

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Digital Scholarship advances research by incorporating emerging digital tools and processes such as data visualization, network analysis, text-analytic techniques, GIS/mapping, and data-mining. Learn more in: Re-Imagining and Re-Structuring Scholarship, Teaching, and Learning in Digital Environments

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An emergent form of scholarship that emphasizes the use of digital technologies to support efficiency. Learn more in: Emergent Forms of Technology-Influenced Scholarship

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Digital scholarship encompasses the use of digital evidence, methods of inquiry, research, publication, and preservation to achieve scholarly and research goals. Digital scholarship includes both scholarly communication using digital media and research on digital media. An important issue in digital scholarship is the effort to establish digital media and social media as credible, professional, and legitimate means of research and communication Digital scholarship has a close association with digital humanities and connectivism. Digital scholarship is also understood as the “born-digital” means of scholarly communication, which is traditional, such as online journals and databases, e-mail correspondence, as well as digital and digitized collections of research and academic libraries. Digital scholarship is concerned with the production and distribution of digital media, discussions about copyright, fair use, and digital rights management (DRM), stating that combined with open access, digital scholarship is an affordable and open model of scholarly communication. Learn more in: Leadership in Global Open, Online, and Distance Learning

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Any scholarly activity that makes extensive use of one or more of new digital media technologies, such as new forms of collaboration, new forms of publication, and new methods for visualizing and analyzing data. Learn more in: Orienting Data Services in the Library: Evolution of a Digital Scholarship Services Department

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Is the use of digital evidence and method, digital authoring, digital publishing, digital curation and preservation, and digital use and reuse of scholarship. Learn more in: Teaching Digital Competence and Scholarly Communication: Ten Years Moving Researchers to Digital Scholarship at Pablo de Olavide University

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An emergent form of scholarship that emphasizes the use of digital technologies to support efficiency. Learn more in: Scholarly Identity in an Increasingly Open and Digitally Connected World