Tenure in a Digital Era

Great article... I like those guidelines and I think things are evolving slowly, but organically. The economy and politics of "publishing" as a criterion for tenure are very complex. There's more to it than simply presuming that if its online, it can't be quality scholarship. Because, after all, UNpublished work can still be "quality scholarship" -- and I think some young scholars underestimate the intelligence of committee members when it comes to their work.
I think what tenure committees are more concerned with is whether or not the appropriate audiences are being reached with a scholar's work (and if they are truly 'working' at all). But no matter which medium is used for publication, there is always a gap between a tenure committee and the field of scholarship that any candidate is specialized in, and this "trouble" for Digital Humanities is no different than, say, the trouble an artist has with presenting their sculptures in a portfolio, etc. etc.
There are no guarantees and no shortcuts for tenure -- the best anyone can do is work hard to try to help the committee to understand the scholar's work...and that includes helping them understand the 'discourse community' for their scholarship as well as their intellectual trajectory and the content of the scholarship itself.