Table des matières

Acknowledgements

Contributor Biographies

Anke Finger et Virginia Kuhn

Introduction

Shedding Light on the Process of Digital Knowledge Production

• The Current State of Digital Scholarship
• I. Issues in Digital Scholarship and Doctoral Education
• II. Shaping the Digital Dissertation in Action

Section I. Issues in digital scholarship and doctoral education

Kathleen Fitzpatrick

1. Dissertating in Public

Cheryl E. Ball

2. Publication Models and Open Access

• Open Access and Why You Should Love Librarians
• Publication Models for Digital Dissertations, or How Not to Pin People into Specific Genres

Virginia Kuhn

3. The Digital Monograph? Key Issues in Evaluation

• The Digital Dissertation: Archive?
• Visual Literacy in the Digital Age: My Case
• I. Conceptual core
• II. Research component
• III. Form + content
• A Final Note

Kathie Gossett et Liza Potts

4. #DigiDiss: A Project Exploring Digital Dissertation Policies, Practices and Archiving

• The Need for the #DigiDiss Project
• Project Stages
• Stage 1: Study and Field Survey
• Stage 2: Workshop with Stakeholders
• Day One: Defining Key Concepts and Landscape Analysis
• Day Two: Developing ANT diagrams, Needs Assessment, and Personas
• Day Three: Identifying Next Steps
• Workshop Findings and Yield
• Stage 3: Storage, Network, Technology and Design Concerns
• Stage 4: Partnering for Network Stability and Sustainability
• The Case for Humanities Commons
• Conclusion

Anke Finger

5. The Gutenberg Galaxy will be Pixelated or How to Think of Digital Scholarship as The Present

An Advisor’s Perspective

• Hybrid Dissertations
• The Making of Flusser 2.0—The Long Game
• Inaugurating DHMS

Nicky Agate, Cheryl E. Ball, Allison Belan et al.

6. Findable, Impactful, Citable, Usable, Sustainable (FICUS): A Heuristic for Digital Publishing

• Introduction
• Tending the Seeds of Sustainable Digital Projects
• Fertilizing FICUS
• Tending FICUS
• FICUS (the Checklist)
• Findable
• Impactful
• Citable
• Usable
• Audience
• Accessibility
• Usability
• Intellectual Property and Use Rights
• Sustainable
• Platforms
• Preservation
• Retirement
• FICUS in the Wild

Section II. Shaping the digital dissertation in action

Katherine Walden et Thomas Oates

7. Navigating Institutions and Fully Embracing the Interdisciplinary Humanities: American Studies and the Digital Dissertation

• Multimodal Digital Content as Argument
• Power of Precedent
• Collaboration, Project Management and Single-Authorship
• Conclusion

Cécile Armand

8. MADSpace: A Janus-Faced Digital Companion to a PhD Dissertation in Chinese History

• A Tale of Digital Companionship
• Origins of MADSpace
• A Perfect Match for My PhD Project
• Afterlives
• The Traps and Promises of Digital Scholarship
• The Curse of Writing
• Toward Academic Recognition
• A Digital Laboratory
• Note on the Terminology
• Acknowledgements

Sarah-Mai Dang

9. Publish Less, Communicate More! Reflecting the Potentials and Challenges of a Hybrid Self-Publishing Project

• I. One Size Does Not Fit All: Why Publish Four Different Formats?
• 1. An Original PDF Version
• 2. A User-Friendly Website
• 3. A Budget Print-On-Demand Book
• 4. A Traditional Monograph in English
• II. Why We Do What We Do: Why Scholarly. Communication Is an Imperative
• III. Numbers and Stats: Considering the Impact Factor and Drawing a Conclusion
• Acknowledgments

Erin Rose Glass

10. #SocialDiss: Transforming the Dissertation into Networked Knowledge Production

• 1. Breaking Out of Scholarly Solitude
• 2. Tools for a Student Public
• 3. Building with Imperfect Tools and Imperfect Words

Lisa Tagliaferri

11. Highly Available Dissertations: Open Sourcing Humanities Scholarship

• The Open Humanities
• Open Source, Open Access and Creative Commons
• How To Make a Dissertation Highly Available
• CUNY Academic Works
• A Dissertation and Its Afterlife

Anthony Masure

12. The Digital Thesis as a Website: SoftPhD.com, from Graphic Design to Online Tools

• Graphic design, thinking by shaping
• SoftPhD.com, Thesis as a Website
• Transfer of Knowledge
• Future of Online Publishing
• Other Online PhD Theses Defended in France
• Towards New Frontiers for the PhD

Lena Redman

13. Writing a Dissertation with Images, Sounds and Movements: Cinematic Bricolage

• Backdrop to the Study
• Privatized Knowledge Tools
• Cinematic Writing
• Cinematic Bricolage
• Gathering / Analyzing < > Organizing / Representing >>> Meaning-Making
• Looking for Crows
• Smoke Screen
• Bringing Forth the World Together with Others
• Conclusion

Celeste Tường Vy Sharpe

14. Precarity and Promise: Negotiating Research Ethics and Copyright in a History Dissertation

Christopher Williams

15. Lessons from the Sandbox: Linking Readership, Representation and Reflection in Tactile Paths

• Topic
• Field
• Motivation: Readership
• Discovering Design Issues: Representation
• Lesson #1: Nuts and Bolts Help Reveal the Big Picture
• Implementation: Reflection
• Collaboration
• Lesson #2: Work with and Learn from Designers
• Lesson #3: AR and Natively Digital Dissertations are Good for Each Other

List of illustrations

Index

About the Team