[Air-L] AoIR in Second Life - Scholar vs. researcher

[Robert Ackland]

I found the following definitions of research and scholarship to be 
quite interesting and possibly useful in my efforts to distinguish 
e-Research from digital scholarship.

It seems to me that a lot of activities in the humanities, arts and 
social sciences that are described (and funded) as e-Research are 
actually digital scholarship since they involve setting 
up/maintaining/providing access to digital collections of research 
resources (e.g. social science datasets, images, video, audio), rather 
than contributing to new knowledge.

Does anyone else agree with or object to the definitions of 
research/scholarship below, and my attempt to use them to distinguish 
e-Research from digital scholarship?  Any relevant scholarly references 
would be much appreciated.

Rob

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Dr Robert Ackland
Fellow and Masters Coordinator, Australian Demographic and Social 
Research Institute, The Australian National University

e-mail:   robert.ackland at anu.edu.au
project:  http://voson.anu.edu.au
teaching: http://adsri.anu.edu.au/study/ssi.php
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Marj Kibby wrote:
> Our promotions criteria differentiate research and scholarship - research is seen as contributing new knowledge to the field, scholarship as staying abreast of developments in the field published by others.
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> Marj
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