Digital Scholarship is the amalgamation of the intellectual context of the work as well as the application the digital resources or tools for the betterment of representation. Digital Scholarship is generally collaborative, multi-modal, and open-ended.
The digital scholarship encourages the form of open-access andcomment-friendly platforms for reviewing and publishing the new genra of writing. This review process mainly emphasizes the openness of digital and scholarly creation and tries to reach a large audience, not only academic scholars but also non-academic audiences. Steven Jones highlights in his book The Emergence of Digital Humanities the new kind of eversion that takes place in digital scholarship which focuses on the networked, social, cross-platform distribution of texts, images, and data out in public.
The 2010 Center for Studies in Higher Education (hereafter cited as Berkeley Report) comments astutely on the conventional role of peer review in the academy:
Among the reasons peer review persists to such a degree in the academy is that, when tied to the venue of a publication, it is an efficient indicator of the quality, relevance, and likely impact of a piece of scholarship. Peer review strongly influences reputation and opportunities. (Harley, et al 21)
According to Cohen and Rosenzweig, in comparison to paper records, digital assets are more unstable. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) expresses doubt about the longevity of some of the media formats that we’re using these days. Also, the wrong way to save digital data causes much faster data loss. For example, 150,000 audio CDs are held by the Library of Congress, and among them, 1 and 10 percent of the discs in their collection contain personal data, which already has serious data errors. Another instance of the vulnerability of data found in the unable to access a large amount of expensive data for not having the correct passport due to the death of one administrator of the Ivar Aasen Center of Language and Culture, a literary museum in Norway.
Apart from data corruption and loss of access, another threat to digital assets is the absence of associated technologies – hardware and accompanying operating system and application software. As digital resources take up over 90 percent of the non-printed majority, it has great importance to preserve the resources.
