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Table 1 Scenarios of faculty development for digital scholarship

From: Exploring the (missed) connections between digital scholarship and faculty development: a conceptual analysis

Dimensions of faculty development

Disciplines contributing to the perspectives on digital scholarship

Information sciences

Digital humanities

Educational technologies

Framework of competences and scenarios of expertise focused on…

… The cycle of scientific communication, encompassing open research practices, participatory science and new modes of disseminating the scientific work.

… Specific methods of digital humanities and the methodological debate (particularly ontological) on the nature of digitalized cultural heritage

… Building a professional identity as digital scholars while dealing with digital, networked and open contexts of academic practice (including research and teaching).

Institutional strategies and policies for…

… Promoting Open Access and Open Science as new frontiers of scientific communication.

… Opening areas or centres to promote the development of digital humanities both from the technical (software, tools, labs) and the methodological point of view.

… Enabling researchers to adopt informal, networked communication of an intertwined perspective of research and teaching.

Environments, resources and activities as…

… A mix of blended (online and face-to-face), active and flexible approaches with emphasis on content like: Regulations for Open Access and Open Sciences, differences between institutional repositories and academic social networks, bibliometrics and altmetrics for the evaluation of research quality), etc.

… A mix of blended active and flexible approaches with emphasis on the adoption of instruments for digitalize or to manipulate digitalized cultural heritage, as well as communities for the methodological debate.

… A mix of blended and flexible approaches with emphasis on building professional communities to reflect on the new practices and identity of the digital scholar.

Showcase areas for…

… Showing the products of practices (open access scientific communication).

… Showing the products of practices (digitalized cultural heritage).

… Sharing stories on new practices, as narratives of what it takes to be a digital scholar.