Vega: Digital Publishing Platform for Scholarship

Digital Humanities Session with Dr. Cheryl Ball

Location

Performing Arts & Humanities Building : 216

Date & Time

March 12, 2015, 12:30 pm2:30 pm

Description

This presentation by Cheryl Ball (West Virginia University) will feature Vega, a new academic publishing platform supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Vega incorporates newer publishing processes, such as collaborative authoring, open peer review, and design editing, as well as media-rich articles and data sets.

Dr. Ball will discuss the opportunities and challenges of composing, editing, publishing, and evaluating scholarship in the 21st century, primarily when it takes non-traditional, digital forms.

Cheryl E. Ball is Associate Professor of Digital Publishing Studies at West Virginia University and editor of Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. She teaches classes in editing, multimedia authoring, and digital publishing.

The event is sponsored by the Dresher Center for the Humanities Digital Humanities Working Group. Co-sponsors: LLC; English; Faculty Development Center; Ancient Studies; Computer Science and Electrical Engineering; MLLI

Lunch will be provided.