dhthis a peer review experiment adeline koh rutgers jan 2014
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A workshop/presentation on #DHThis (www.dhthis.org), a peer review experiment for the digital humanities by Adeline Koh, Martin Eve, Roopika Risam, Jesse Stommel and Alex GilTRANSCRIPT
#DHThis: A DH Peer Review Experiment
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Adeline Koh @adelinekoh Director of DH@Stockton,
Assistant Professor of Literature, Richard Stockton College
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What is #DHThis?
At http://dhthis.org
Experiment in new forms of publishing
Joint project by myself, Roopika Risam (@roopikarisam), Martin Eve (@martin_eve), Jesse Stommel (@jessifer), Alex Gil (@elotroalex)
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What is #DHThis?
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What is #DHThis? Community based aggregator based on the Pligg system
“Slashdot” for digital humanities
Employs voting system
Anyone can sign up to be a user/submit things
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How does #DHThis Work?���5
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Why #DHThis?���8
Why #DHThis?
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#DHThis provides an alternative framework to the editorial model, where a few editors get to determine what sort of content gets published
Only complement: DHNow. But:
Also relies on editorial model to showcase content.
While DHNow pulls in from many feeds (anyone can add to), these feeds are not easily findable from DHNow site.
Note: originally when DHNow was first conceived, they used of a similar crowdsourcing platform but switched to editorial because of lack of diversity
Why #DHThis?
But--Digital Humanities growing as a field. #DHThis helps create the forum for a larger community to have a say.
#DHThis goal: To provide a platform to share information & give feedback for/within a community.
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#DHThis Goals
Create a community-based system/platform
Aims to both build community and provide framework for community to interact
Also through “Groups” allows the formation of different communities/subcommunities
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#DHThis & the Research Cycle
Serves to demonstrate what a community finds engaging about different subjects
Way to get initial feedback/craft reactions to a project/find better ways of expressing it
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#DHThis & the Research Cycle Extends functions of blogs by signal boosting their content. Additionally provides information abt who might be interested in your work through upvotes/comments
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#DHThis LimitationsPopularity Contest? (Isn’t academia run on a popularity contest?)
Up/Down Voting not adequate for academic subjects? (But what is peer review but a thumbs up or down?)
Downvoting does not help with community building (What alternatives are there?/“Dislike” button on Facebook)
Categories on header cannot be dynamically determined by individual user (is this impt?)
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Next Steps
Next iterations of #DHThis:
Possible employment of Reddit platform, to allow for user-generated subreddits?
Today’s #DHThis workshop!
Continue w current iteration for a year?
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Join us!
Go to http://dhthis.org
Create your own user account (under “Register”)
Submit content (under “Submit”) —> give post a snazzy title/description to get people to click!
Visit “New” and upvote/downvote + comment
Tweet under #dhthis!
More help under “About” page: http://tinyurl.com/dhthishelp
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