{"id":147,"date":"2016-05-13T20:00:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T20:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2021\/?page_id=147"},"modified":"2021-06-24T15:50:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T19:50:50","slug":"criteria-for-digital-tool-evaluation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2021\/resources\/criteria-for-digital-tool-evaluation\/","title":{"rendered":"Criteria for Digital Tool Evaluation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Learning to evaluate digital tools is an important part of digital scholarship.&nbsp;These questions will help you think about how a tool works, what features it has, and how difficult it will be to implement for a digital project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What are the key features of this digital tool?&nbsp;How&nbsp;is this digital tool distinct from other ones similar to it?<\/li><li>What kinds of research questions might this digital tool help&nbsp;you answer?<\/li><li>What kind of documentation is available for this tool?<\/li><li>Is the digital tool free, or is there a cost to use it?<\/li><li>What kinds of data\/input does the tool require? Are there any privacy concerns regarding data? Who owns the data that is input?<\/li><li>What biases does this tool have? What assumptions have the developers made in its creation?<\/li><li>How often is the code for the tool updated?<\/li><li>How difficult will this tool be to master? Does it require an outside expert or special technical skills, or can it be learned with practice?<\/li><li>Could you use this digital tool for your project? Why or why not?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Adapted from <a href=\"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/dh101f14\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DH101-Tool-Evaluation.pdf\">Miriam Posner&#8217;s DH101 Tool Evaluation Criteria<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning to evaluate digital tools is an important part of digital scholarship.&nbsp;These questions will help you think about how a tool works, what features it has, and how difficult it will be to implement for a digital project. What are the key features of this digital tool?&nbsp;How&nbsp;is this digital tool distinct from other ones similar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":24,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/template-full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-147","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2978,"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/147\/revisions\/2978"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}