The goal of this project is to examine the informal and formal communication channels used by the DH community to connect members at the individual, group, and institutional levels. As we’ve moved toward fulfilling this initial goal, we‘ve considered the scholarly metrics from which DH members are judged and the ways in which they earn academic capital. When we think about scholarly metrics, and even alt-metrics, we feel that the article is still prime. Based on our initial analyses of the data and your responses to our survey, we are now exploring the ramifications of the larger ecosystem of scholarly production where knowledge doesn’t necessarily begin or end with the article.

1. Mapping DH through
Heterogeneous
Communicative Practices
Timothy Bowman; Bradford Demarest; Scott B. Weingart; Grant Leyton
Simpson; Vincent Lariviere; Mike Thelwall; Cassidy R. Sugimoto.
http://did.ils.indiana.edu/dh/
DH2013, Thur July 18, 2013 @ 1:30 to 3pm

2. Digging Into Data:
“Cascades, islands, or streams? Time, topic, and
scholarly activities in humanities and social science
research”
Our work will analyze the importance of various scholarly activities for creating,
sustaining, and propelling new knowledge;
Our work will have implications for policy makers, as they seek to identify
emergent areas of research.
Our work will provide an indicator of the importance of certain communication
channels for identifying emerging areas of knowledge.
Our work will be useful for scholars because researchers need to be good at
predicting trends in research and differentiating between topics and research
questions that are appropriate for grants, PhD students, and research projects.
Where possible, products will be made available online and we will seek to
incorporate the voice of the academic community at all points in our research.
http://did.ils.indiana.edu/dh/

3. Our Goals
The goal of this project is to examine the informal and formal
communication channels used by the DH community to connect
members at the individual, group, and institutional levels.
As we’ve moved toward fulfilling this initial goal, we‘ve
considered the scholarly metrics from which DH members are
judged and the ways in which they earn academic capital.
When we think about scholarly metrics, and even alt-metrics, we
feel that the article is still prime. Based on our initial analyses of
the data and your responses to our survey, we are now
exploring the ramifications of the larger ecosystem of scholarly
production where knowledge doesn’t necessarily begin or end
with the article.
http://did.ils.indiana.edu/dh/

4. Our Initial Dataset
For DH2013, our current data sources consist of:
• DHQ Journal : We obtained all of the articles as XML files and used XSLT to
harvest author information for each article
• LLC Journal : We obtained the LLC article information from ISI Web of
Science spanning from 2008 through present and used Sci2 Tool to parse
the data
• Humanist Listserv : We obtained the Humanist listserv data by downloading
Stéfan Sinclair’s pre-2008 XML data and by downloading a copy of the 2008-
present ArchTracker Archive from dhhumanist.org.
• TEI-L Listserv : We used the LISTSERV 16.0 commands to retrieve both the
messages and the subscriber list as emails.
• NEH Grants : We obtained the DH-related NEH grants from the IU Scholarly
Data Archives (SDA).
• Twitter : We’ve started with a list of Twitter handles from the
digitalhumanitiesnow.org compendium and we used NodeXL to parse the
data to see who the DH people follow and who follows them.
• DH Survey : We recently asked you to fill out a survey regarding your
information consumption and dissemination practices.
http://did.ils.indiana.edu/dh/

5. We are continuing to gather data!
• We have identified 19 additional DH-related journals.
• We are continuing to expand our DH Twitter list.
• We are going to add additional DH funding sources.
• We are going to add additional DH-related listservs.
• We are gathering DH center information.
• We are gathering DH syllabi
• We hope to gather DH blog information.
We have created a normalized database with this
information and plan to make this information
available to everyone.
We are also creating a web application in which you
will be able to manage your own information within
this database.
http://did.ils.indiana.edu/dh/

6. Where is DH?
0 5 10 15 20 25 30
New York University
Harvard University
Oxford
University of Maryland
University of Michigan
Brown University
King's College London
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Indiana University
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
George Mason University
University of Virginia
Number of DH practitioners per institution
1,422 other or missing
http://did.ils.indiana.edu/dh/

7. Where is TEI/Humanist?
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
Alberta
Virginia
King's College London
U of Michigan
New York U
Stanford
U of Toronto
U of Victoria
Trinity College Dublin
University College London
Indiana
Top educational subscriptions to Humanist
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16
Virginia
BBAW
King's College London
U of Cologne
Yale
U of Georgia
Brown
Indiana
U of Tours
U of Michigan
U of Oslo
Top educational subscriptions to TEI
http://did.ils.indiana.edu/dh/

8. What is DH research?
Keywords of #DH2013 submissions by volume

9. Where is DH found and made?
Digital Humanities survey results

10. How independent is DH?
Affiliated with a
DH center or
group
Not affiliated
with a DH center
or group
Digital Humanities survey results

11. Who is central to DH?

12. Who is cited in DH?