Case Studies
DiScontent is gathering examples of advocacy and justice based digital scholarship work — in which we include infrastructural and administrative planning as well as research support and collaboration — to serve as examples of what has worked, or not, for colleagues pursuing similarly-minded projects.
What are we looking for?
The Bucknell Digital Scholarship workshop participants identified the following suggestions for case studies. We will link to relevant case studies we publish under each category.
- Process of putting policies in place (for research time, tenure and promotion rubrics, hiring policies, modes of practice, etc)
- MIT: development of Future of Libraries report and mission, vision, and values statement
- Staffing
- Funding
- Codes of conduct (and centering them in daily work routines)
- Best practices for qualitative research gathering
- Language “admin speak”
- Mentoring (formal)
- Emotional, ethical, infrastructure questions / support / approaches
- “Good enough” self-archiving recommendations
- Engaging students
- Project management
- How to think about ethically-centered management
- What questions to ask
- Shared credit / collaborators’ bills of rights
- sustainability — of projects, of efforts
- Please feel free to identify additional areas
What should the case studies contain?
- Name and institution (with option for anonymous)
- Description of the challenge/opportunity
- Approach taken to address challenge/opportunity
- Resources needed (acquired or not)
- Reflection (outcomes, benefits, unexpected consequences, what might you have needed, hindsight)
- Resources you’d like to share (templates, images, prompts)
- Any other information you think is appropriate
If you would like to share a case study, or have questions, please use our contact form or comment below as appropriate for length. We will pick up the conversation!