Slides e humanities presentation, 27jan2011

Enhancing Scholarly Publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Innovation through Hybrid Forms of Publication Project Parameters, Plans & Reflections SURFfoundation Program Enhanced Publication E-Humanities Group Research Meeting 27 January 2011 KNAW e-Humanities Group / Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences ( VKS ) Project Coordinator: Nicholas W. Jankowski Participants: Anne Beaulieu, Clifford Tatum, Andrea Scharnhorst 27 Jan. 2011 KNAW e-Humanities Group

SURF: launch, 19 Jan. 2011 Duurzame toegang 27 Jan. 2011 KNAW e-Humanities Group

Backing up: What is ‘enhanced publication’? (1)
“… a publication that is enhanced with research data, extra materials, post publication data, database records (e.g. the Protein Data Bank), and that has an object-based structure with explicit links between the objects. In this definition an object can be (part of) an article, a data set, an image, a movie, a comment, a module or a link to information in a database.”
(Woutersen-Windhouwer & Brandsma, 2009: 20)
27 Jan. 2011 KNAW e-Humanities Group

Backing up: What is ‘enhanced publication’? (2) ( Wat is een Verrijkte Publicatie? )
“ ...bestaat uit een publicatie, meestal in de vorm van tekst, verrijkt met extra materialen. Een publicatie kan een artikel in een tijdschrift, een proefschrift, rapport, notitie of een hoofdstuk uit een boek zijn. Voorwaarde is dat het over (wetenschappelijk) onderzoek gaat en een interpretatie of analyse bevat van primaire data of een afgeleide daarvan. Het begeleidende materiaal kan bijvoorbeeld bestaan uit onderzoeksdata, beeldmateriaal ter illustratie, metadatasets en post-publicatie data zoals commentaren en ranking gegevens. Door de veranderende post-publicatie data is het mogelijk dat een Verrijkte Publicatie zich blijft doorontwikkelen in de tijd.”

Check list for EPs (incomplete) (Woutersen-Windhouwer & Brandsma, 2009: 54-55)
persistent identifiers; unique and global
timestamp & citation info
file types: common
datasets with universal numeric ID
technical quality meriting preservation
consideration of legal issues
also
availability & sustainability
ownership & responsibility
peer reviewed, ranked, cited & commented
balancing complexity & utility

e-Humanities Group EP project: Objectives
Hybrid book publications: Web complement to 4 books
supplementary resources (links, blogs, chapter appendices, author profiles);
chapter visualizations, color (animations, figures, tables)
Hyperlinks (internal &external to texts)
author updating
search features
Books
e-Research: Transformation in Scholarly Practice. N. W. Jankowski, ed., Routledge , 2009.
Virtual Knowledge. P. Wouters, A. Beaulieu, A. Scharnhorst & S. Wyatt, eds., submitted MIT Press .
Digital Media: Concepts & Issues, Research & Resources. N. Jankowski, Polity Press, Digital Media and Society , forthcoming 2011.
The Long History of New Media: Technology, Historiography, and Newness Contextualized. D. Park, N. Jankowski & S. Jones, eds., Peter Lang, part of Digital Formations series, forthcoming 2011.
Database: aggregation of content across sites, relationships, underpinnings & context made explicit
Dissemination : conference panels & workshop, instructional materials

e-Humanities Group: Deliverables
Web sites complementing 4 books
Variety of ways of engaging with books
digital objects, enhancement of content
communication possibilities
visibility, presence
Database, bundling of projects=critical mass
Technological advantage (portal-style Web site for books)
Mutual learning, inspiration (authors’s sandbox)
Exemplar (proposal to publisher to expand database concept)
Dissemination to users-producers
Conference panel presentations (OII: 2), workshop (AoIR)
Preparation journal theme issue(s) (NM&S, FM)
(self) instructional materials

Rethinking the Template: enhancing e-Research 27 Jan. 2011 KNAW e-Humanities Group

One of the hybrids: Virtual Knowledge
Since beginnings, discussion of digital form
Different speeds
Paper path
Digital path
Opportunity for progress via SURF
Incentive
Expertise
Structuring of activities

Towards a ‘path’…
Example of path towards ESCAPE tool and SURF version of enriched publication
Magchiel Bijsterbosch, ‘enriched publications in 4 steps’
-publiceer bronnen op het web (papers in repositories, graphicals on Flickr, data in dbs which are web-queryable)
-registreer concepten zodat ze een url hebben (persons, organisations, classifications)
-beschrijf de bronnen en leg de relaties (ESCAPE)
-publiceer deze relaties
Could this be OUR path?
building block view of a publication, knowledge as Wikipedia; unambiguous relations; web as ‘information’ (rather than web as communication); ….

Virtual Knowledge as enriched publication
building block view of a publication; knowledge as Wikipedia; unambiguous relations; web as ‘information’ (rather than web as communication); ….
So what kind of path do we need?
What kinds of tools are out there to support it?

Reflection : Imagining Enhancement in Scholarly Publications http://scimaps.org/atlas/ 27 Jan. 2011 KNAW e-Humanities Group

‘ Persistent’ Questions....
How does/might enhancement relate to the quality of an ‘argument’ presented in a scholarly publication?
What special challenges & solutions are available for issues confronting EP:
Preserving / archiving dynamic objects in a Web environment
Inter-relating objects of EPs
Convincing key players (publishers, editors, authors) of added value (and affordability) of EPs

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