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This article describes the practical aspects of the evaluation undertaken by the Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency (Agència per a la Qualitat del Sistema Universitari de Catalunya, AQU Catalunya) of candidate university lecturers in humanities whose academic profile needs to be accredited. The article describes the features of the accreditation process in general and the evaluation of humanities research in particular, which is more complex than it is with other types of research because of certain aspects: for example, the fact that the evaluations are indirect and use the quality indicators of scientific journals that publish such research, which conditions the accreditation process in important ways. In consideration of the recent methodological contributions to evaluating research made by the Leiden Manifesto and the San Francisco Declaration, the article concludes that evaluators need to avoid exclusively quantitative approaches to their assessment of humanities research, which should be respectful of this research community, and that further debate is needed on the best approaches to the task at hand. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: To describe the organization and literacy practices of a Spanish-speaking scanlation community (a group of fans who collaborate on the Internet to scan, translate and distribute mangas) by examining the community members' roles and activities, the online environments in which they work and the resources they use. Methodology: The study employed cyberethnographic techniques to create and analyse a database comprising 97 videos of onscreen activity, 32 transcripts of comments drawn from Facebook, blogs, forums and chats, 96 scanned manga chapters and, finally, six semi-structured interviews. Results: The scanlation community in question assigned its members specific roles (of cleaning, translating, typesetting or correcting) and the members worked in a variety of online environments (email, Facebook, forums and chats). Members interacted to negotiate the development of projects, troubleshoot and exchange knowledge and expertise. Their literacy practices were regulated by the shared culture of scanlation communities as these exist worldwide, evidenced in the existence of a set of ethical standards, a common repertory of tools (translators, dictionaries, inventories of fonts, etc.) and a series of specific, socially valued semiotic practices (such as maintaining Japanese honorific suffixes in translations). This sophisticated level of organization challenges the notion that the cultural products of these vernacular and plurilingual practices are merely the result of their individual members' creativity or of the spontaneous collaboration between them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The twentieth century has brought significant emergence of information technology in research carried out in the area of the humanities. The intervention of information units, especially university libraries, has played -and must still have- a significant role in processes such as scanning, but also in training and dissemination of resources. Folklore as a discipline of humanities is not exempt from this evolution. This is the context where MOMFER is analyzed, an online resource that substantially improves the use of Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk Literature. However, considering the ambitious goal for which the tool forms the basis of a comprehensive universal index, leadership will be required; and surely, to enable or to develop linked spaces of virtual collaboration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]