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Record W4414705585 · doi:10.1353/lib.2025.a970684

Genres of Digital Humanities Scholarship: Are We There Yet?

2025· article· en· W4414705585 on OpenAlexfundno aff
Katrina Fenlon

Bibliographic record

VenueLibrary trends · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicDigital Humanities and Scholarship
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersCollege of Engineering, Michigan State UniversityVlaamse regeringYork UniversityMichigan State University
KeywordsDigital humanitiesDigital scholarshipScholarshipField (mathematics)Genre analysisDigital libraryDigital culture

Abstract

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Abstract: Systems of knowledge organization, discovery, and digital preservation in academic and research libraries tend to omit varieties of digital scholarship that defy conventions of research genres. This paper considers how genre theory can deepen our understanding of the state of play in digital humanities: whether there are useful genres emerging or solidifying in the field and what their implications are for libraries. Through a critical review of digital humanities discourse, deploying the lens of genre theory, this paper develops a framework for characterizing emergent forms of digital humanities scholarship. This review highlights a range of epistemological and communicative purposes of new forms of digital scholarship—for providing evidence, conveying arguments, and constructing user experiences. The paper considers how improved understanding of digital humanities genres may support libraries as they help construct, steward, and provide access to a more diversified landscape of creative scholarship.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.027
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.045
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScholarly communication
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.962
Threshold uncertainty score0.142

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0270.045
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0110.009
Science and technology studies0.0080.041
Scholarly communication0.0380.048
Open science0.0020.010
Research integrity0.0030.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.059
GPT teacher head0.240
Teacher spread0.181 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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