Paper - iPRES 2008 - London

Digital Scholarship is a method of scholarly communication, research, and exchange of ideas that employs modern forms of technology, in particular, those forms of technology maintained within an institution’s cyberinfrastructure. Digital scholarship then is often, in equal parts, the intellectual content and the manner in which it is created and presented. That is what sets it apart from, for example, humanities scholarship as it has been historically undertaken in its published form. Thus it would follow that the sustaining of digital scholarship goes far beyond what is commonly known as digital preservation. In other words, sustaining digital scholarship is not just the difficult task of preserving the atomized digital objects (or even bits and bytes) but also the relationships among them. These relationships represent the digital world of authorial aggregation and distribution that also needs to be preserved. This is not a task that any one unit within a university can possibly undertake. This article provides an outline of activities that are taking place at the University of Virginia and provides some outlines and strategies for approaching such a complex problem set.

iPRES, London

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