What can scholarly communication learn from open source? Publish early, publish often!

What can scholarly communication learn from open source? Publish early, publish often! Stian Håklev FOSS Brown Bag Seminar at the iSchool, October 27, 2011 CC BY

Going beyond this

Text“What is inside our full-text articles, and how do we improve access to it? Or: Stories, that persuade with data.”, Anita de Ward

“What is inside our full-text articles, and how do we improve access to it? Or: Stories, that persuade with data.”, Anita de Ward

Opening up the process

The Open Scholar, as Im deﬁning this person, is notsimply someone who agrees to allow free access andreuse of his or her traditional scholarly articles andbooks; no, the Open Scholar is someone who makestheir intellectual projects and processes digitallyvisible and who invites and encourages ongoingcriticism of their work and secondary uses of any orall parts of it--at any stage of its development. Gideon Burton, www.academicevolution.org

Going back to Open Source

Going back to Open Sourcetracing the concept of OA back to FOSS

Going back to Open Sourcetracing the concept of OA back to FOSSopen licenses

Going back to Open Sourcetracing the concept of OA back to FOSSopen licensesaccess to source code

Going back to Open Sourcetracing the concept of OA back to FOSSopen licensesaccess to source codeopen development practices (source codemanagement, open bug database, “release early,release often”)

Going back to Open Sourcetracing the concept of OA back to FOSSopen licensesaccess to source codeopen development practices (source codemanagement, open bug database, “release early,release often”)how does this translate to academic research?

Making it real

Features

FeaturesIntegrates BibDesk, Skim, Chrome and DokuWiki using Ruby,AppleScript and keyboard shortcuts

FeaturesIntegrates BibDesk, Skim, Chrome and DokuWiki using Ruby,AppleScript and keyboard shortcutsEasily import Google Scholar bibtex and PDFs

FeaturesIntegrates BibDesk, Skim, Chrome and DokuWiki using Ruby,AppleScript and keyboard shortcutsEasily import Google Scholar bibtex and PDFsMark up PDFs in Skim (or on Kindle)

FeaturesIntegrates BibDesk, Skim, Chrome and DokuWiki using Ruby,AppleScript and keyboard shortcutsEasily import Google Scholar bibtex and PDFsMark up PDFs in Skim (or on Kindle)Auto-generate nice wiki pages for each publication, withmetadata and notes (plus indices)

FeaturesIntegrates BibDesk, Skim, Chrome and DokuWiki using Ruby,AppleScript and keyboard shortcutsEasily import Google Scholar bibtex and PDFsMark up PDFs in Skim (or on Kindle)Auto-generate nice wiki pages for each publication, withmetadata and notes (plus indices)Easily process raw notes to higher level notes, cite publicationson topical wiki pages, etc. Also use citekey on blog, or whenauthoring articles

FeaturesIntegrates BibDesk, Skim, Chrome and DokuWiki using Ruby,AppleScript and keyboard shortcutsEasily import Google Scholar bibtex and PDFsMark up PDFs in Skim (or on Kindle)Auto-generate nice wiki pages for each publication, withmetadata and notes (plus indices)Easily process raw notes to higher level notes, cite publicationson topical wiki pages, etc. Also use citekey on blog, or whenauthoring articlesOfﬂine ﬁle-based wiki, easily synced with public server

Ryan Muller, http://learnstream.org/wiki

Niklas Karlsson, http://kollaboration.se/wiki

Challenges

ChallengesVery difﬁcult for others to install, because of thenumber of software packages that are integrated,and the difﬁculty of making a Ruby installer

ChallengesVery difﬁcult for others to install, because of thenumber of software packages that are integrated,and the difﬁculty of making a Ruby installerFinding ways of sharing data or interconnectingdifferent wikis

Thanks! Stian Håklev shaklev@gmail.com http://reganmian.net http://reganmian.net/wiki/ researchr:start

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