MLA Digital Work

The Evaluation of Digital Work

This area is for an ongoing project by members of the MLA Committee on Information Technology. We are experimenting with a wiki as a way of developing materials to assist in the evaluation of digital work for tenure and promotion.

Note: This site has now been taken on by the MLA with other interested parties. That version should be consulted for the most up-to-date version. See MLA Evaluation Wiki (note this link has been updated. The general MLA wiki is at http://wiki.mla.org .)

Some of the resources developed are:

• Types of Digital Work - A list of types of academic digital work with thoughts as to how they might be presented for evaluation and how they might then be evaluated.
• Short Guide to Evaluation of Digital Work - A list of questions evaluators can ask about digital work being assessed for tenure and promotion.
• Stories - A collection of fictional and real cases with suggestions as to how these cases might be prepared and evaluated.
• Documenting a New Media Case - A section for candidates on documents to gather and language to use to prepare your case. Unifinished
• Frequently Asked Questions about job seeking in digital fields. Unfinished
• Links and Bibliography about the evaluation of digital work. Unfinished
• To Do is a list of things to do to improve this.