Frontiers | Concepts and Challenges in Digital Scholarship | Digital Humanities

"The concept of digital scholarship is much discussed. Most writing on scholarship takes its cue from the work of Boyer (1990). Boyer was a senior figure in higher education, at one point Chancellor of the State University of New York who developed an account of what it means to be a scholar. He developed a view on teaching and research activities in the modern university and came up with a conceptualization of scholarship encompassing four-dimensional functions [described as follows in Scanlon (2013) (p. 13)]:

• discovery, the creation of new knowledge in a specific area or discipline,

• integration, creating knowledge across disciplines,

• application, engagement with the wider world outside academia, but still based on the scholar’s disciplinary knowledge and background, and

• teaching, applying scholarship to inform teaching."