Sholars’ digital needs
From Scholars’ Panel Explores Digital Scholarship Needs by David Seaman in CLIR:
A basic problem for scholars who use digital resources is the lack of persistent identifiers—permanent and trusted Internet addresses—for online objects … Another barrier to digital scholarship is the failure of faculty promotion and rewards structures to accommodate the shift from a print-based to a digital world of scholarly publishing and communications. “It is no accident that most humanists and social scientists working with digital media are post-tenure,” one participant observed … While scholars at the DLF meeting favored the idea of having a long-term safe haven for their digital content (especially if it was curated by the library), they voiced concern about ownership rights to their work, how permissions would be managed, and what it would take to prepare material for a repository.
Also noted are some tools needed by scholars, including “gathering information from multiple sources, along with related metadata” and “writing the new scholarship—authoring tools for the digital scholar.” You mean like LaTeX and BibDesk? They probably should be less intimidating.
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