DHThis a Peer Review Experiment Adeline Koh Rutgers Jan 2014

#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?

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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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The #DHThis Cat as symbol http://tinyurl.com/dhthiscat

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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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