CIRCA:Giving Credit

From CIRCA

An important part of closing off a project is giving credit to the appropriate people. This really matters in digital humanities projects because they are usually developed in teams

General Advice

• Discuss credit early. It seems tacky, but it is a good idea to talk about credit
• When in doubt be generous with credit. I will generally list as a co-author on papers on projects anyone who has been significantly involved in the development of the project even if they didn't help write the paper.
• Inform others when you are going to give a presentation or submit a paper and ask if they want to be involved.
• Tell people when a paper is published related to a project. This is useful for their records.

Links

• Bethany Nowviskie has put up the text of a talk she gave on giving credit in collaborative projects. See "where credit is due" [1].
• The Off the Tracks workshop at the University of Maryland produced a [| Collaborators' Bill of Rights]. The original is at http://mith.umd.edu/offthetracks/recommendations/