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Demystifying Digital Scholarship

Demystifying Digital Scholarship

Stephen M. Mutula
Copyright: © 2012 |Pages: 25
ISBN13: 9781613503355|ISBN10: 1613503350|EISBN13: 9781613503362
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61350-335-5.ch013
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Mutula, Stephen M. "Demystifying Digital Scholarship." Library and Information Science in Developing Countries: Contemporary Issues, edited by A. Tella and A.O. Issa, IGI Global, 2012, pp. 170-194. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61350-335-5.ch013

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Mutula, S. M. (2012). Demystifying Digital Scholarship. In A. Tella & A. Issa (Eds.), Library and Information Science in Developing Countries: Contemporary Issues (pp. 170-194). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61350-335-5.ch013

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Mutula, Stephen M. "Demystifying Digital Scholarship." In Library and Information Science in Developing Countries: Contemporary Issues, edited by A. Tella and A.O. Issa, 170-194. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2012. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61350-335-5.ch013

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Abstract

The subject of digital scholarship has attracted attention from the scientific community, publishing industry, and libraries, not only as a subject of study or methodology, but also as a tool that aims at addressing how new digital media and technologies can be leveraged to transform teaching, learning, and research. Digital scholarship provides an opportunity to develop cyber-infrastructure, facilitate large scale collaborative projects, and share research data as well as methodologies across disciplines. It enables scholars to develop research questions at appropriate level of sophistication and abstraction in order to allow large scale collaboration that cuts across disciplines, borders, and methodologies. Digital scholarship intersects many academic fields including but not limited to computational linguistics, cloud computing, human computer interaction, content management, cyber-infrastructure, e-publishing, computer modelling, cross language information retrieval, automated language processing, information visualisation, and social networks. Despite its increased pervasiveness, digital scholarship as a discipline of study or as a tool and technology for enhanced learning and research is yet to be widely understood. Besides, literature on the subject is limited. Digital scholarship is therefore a legitimate scholarly endeavour that needs research for clear understanding. This chapter therefore strives to demystify the concept of digital scholarship, its scope, tools for its study and application, what it aims to achieve, why it is important, and any challenges of implementing, it especially in scholarly environments.

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