Is Web 2.0 Changing Publishing Forever? Kristen Fisher Ratan HighWire Press May 18, 2008 CSE Meeting

About HighWire HighWire is a department of Stanford University Libraries “ Not for profit, not for loss, not for sale” Founded in 1995 and entirely self-funding from 1996 onwards Staff of more than 130 to deliver technology and services to publishers Launched H2O e-publishing platform in 2008

HighWire is a department of Stanford University Libraries

“ Not for profit, not for loss, not for sale”

Founded in 1995 and entirely self-funding from 1996 onwards

Staff of more than 130 to deliver technology and services to publishers

Launched H2O e-publishing platform in 2008

Is Web 2.0 Changing Publishing? From Authoring to Linking, it’s all being reinvented Expert authors – user-generated content Peer review – user ranking and reviews Editors – recommendation and organization systems Subject publications – blogs, uber-blogs What can we learn from it all?

From Authoring to Linking, it’s all being reinvented

Expert authors – user-generated content

Peer review – user ranking and reviews

Editors – recommendation and organization systems

Subject publications – blogs, uber-blogs

What can we learn from it all?

The New Authoring?

450,000 individually authored pages on all topics

The New Editing and Peer Review?

Helium: Grass-roots Peer-review? Over 100,000 writers contributing on dozens of topics Anonymous rating system of other articles within your topic area

Wikiprofessional's Concept Web Organization of accumulated knowledge into units called Knowlets

Baynote Determining users’ true intent and making recommendations

Indexing, Connecting, Contextualizing

Blogs and uber-blogs

The New Impact Factors?

Find out who is blogging about you http://www.technorati.com/search/www.highwire.org?sort=authority

The New Publishers? Or Aggregators?

Provides tools for people to aggregate, organize, read, and share RSS feeds they are subscribed to

Social Poster Submits your links to over 20 popular social bookmarking websites automatically, creating new accounts for you

The New ePublishing Platforms?

Scribd and Drupal

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