I had the opportunity to present the HuMetricsHSS projects to the European research library community at LIBER2017, the 46th LIBER Annual Conference, which happened in Patras, Greece, in July. During LIBER2017, I was invited to sit on a panel of…
IFLA WLIC 2017: Exploring Values-Based (Alt)Metrics to Enhance Library Services
In August 2017, I shared the HuMetricsHSS project with an international cross-section of librarians at the IFLA World Libraries Information Congress in Wrocław, Poland. In this post, I’ve adapted a portion of my talk. You can download the related conference…
If You’re Wondering If the HumetricsHSS Workshop Is for You, the Answer Is Yes!
This October, the HuMetricsHSS team is excited to bring together a diverse group of scholars, teachers, administrators, and students from a wide range of institutions for a topic that we believe will transform academia. Over the course of a two-day…
Triangle and Beyond
Our very early, very alpha, proposed first draft of a set of guiding values for evaluation in HSS work. When we first introduced the work of the HuMetrics group to the other TriangleSCI teams last October, we met with some…
The Syllabus as HuMetrics Case Study
Current metrics of humanities scholarship have been shown to be too blunt to capture the multiple dimensions of scholarly output and impact (see Haustein and Larivière). In addition, the inappropriate nature of current indicators can incentivize perverse scholarly practices (see The Metric…
The Syllabus as Scholarship
“A critical component of our emerging #Humetrics conversation at Triangle SCI involves finding ways to expose, highlight, and recognize the important scholarship that goes into the all-too-hidden work of peer review, syllabus development, conference organizing, mentoring, etc. Our current metrics…
Nurturing Fulfilling Scholarly Lives
In Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, there is a famous passage in which he reminds us that “to be happy takes a complete lifetime; for one swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day; and similarly one day or…
Changing Behavior by Changing Incentives
It’s our last day at Triangle SCI, and I’ve been contemplating overnight the feedback the #HuMetrics team got yesterday afternoon from our colleagues. In our presentation of what we’ve been doing this week, we attempted to sketch out, using the…
The Excellences of Scholarship: Collegiality
We began the day with a walk. The morning was cool and fresh, and the grounds around the DuBoise House at the Rizzo Center offered the six of us on the #HuMetrics team at the TriangleSCI the peace and space…
On Quality
Today is the second full day of the Triangle Scholarly Communication Institute, where I am part of a team that’s focusing on HuMetrics: Building Humane Metrics for the Humanities. We have each agreed to quickly blog some thoughts as part…