1.
THE SCHOLAR
BLOGS OF TODAY,
TOMORROW?
PRACTICES AND PERCEPTIONS OF
VALUE, IMPACT AND STEWARDSHIP
CAROLYN.HANK@MCGILL.CA
Assistant Professor ▪ School of Information Studies
ICPSR ▪ 14 AUGUST 2012 ▪ ANN ARBOR, MI

2.
history
personal
part I

3.
2004-2005
OCLC
OCLC RESEARCH
- SENSE-MAKING THE INFORMATION CONFLUENCE
- MOVING FROM PRINT TO HYBRID JOURNAL
SUBSCRIPTIONS
2005-present - DIGITAL CURATION/INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY
UNC
- CAROLINA DIGITAL REPOSITORY
- DIGCCURR I (DIGITAL CURATION CURRICULUM)
- DIGCCURR II (PROFESSIONAL TRAINING)
AT CHAPEL HILL
- HUMAN INFORMATION INTERACTION
- DIGITAL PRESERVATION, ACCESS & CURATION
2010-present
MCGILL
- ARCHIVAL STUDIES STREAM
- TEACHING
- MEMBER, RESEARCH ETHICS BOARD
SCHOOL OF INFORMATION STUDIES

4.
BLOGS &
PRESERVATION
General Bloggers
- CHOEMPRAYONG & SHEBLE (2006-2008)
- BLOGFOREVER: EU-FUNDED PROJECT (http://blogforever.eu)
Scholar Bloggers
- HISTORY, ECONOMICS, LAW, BIOLOGY, CHEMISTRY & PHYSICS
- BIBLIOBLOGGERS

5.
FUNCTIONS
LEGITIMAZATION REWARD
BORGMAN DISSEMINATION VAN DE SOMPEL ET AL. (2004)
(2007) - ACCESS
- PRESERVATION INSTITUTIONALIZED
- CURATION ELEMENTARY
HAGSTROM (1965)
REGISTRATION
ROOSENDAAL EXTRINSIC
CERTIFICATION
ET AL.
INTRINSIC
(2001) AWARENESS
MURRAY & MOORE (2006)
ARCHIVING

6.
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
How do scholars who
blog perceive their blog
in relation to their
cumulative scholarly
record?

7.
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
How do they perceive
their blog in relation to
long-term stewardship?
Who do they perceive
as responsible as well
as capable for blog
preservation?

8.
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
What blog characteristics
impact preservation?
What blogger behaviours
impact preservation?

9.
UNITS & DATA SOURCES
BLOG
Questionnaires
Interviews
BLOGGER
Blog Analysis

10.
PURPOSIVE SAMPLING
Academic Blog Portal
<http://www.academicblogs.org>
History| Economics | Law | BioChemPhys

11.
ELIGIBLE BLOGS
(29%)
125 Single-Blogs | 63 Co-Blogs

12.
ELIGIBLE BLOGGERS

13.
QUESTIONNAIRES
RR 1: QI: 63% | QII: 46% | QI/II: 52%
Completed sample:
153 respondents
Outcome rates derived from Internet surveys of specifically named persons
from the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR, 2009)

14.
INTERVIEWS
24 semi-structured
phone interviews
72 (47%) of QI & QII respondents expressed interest

15.
BLOG ANALYSIS
Coded 93 blogs
Authorship Attributes
Blog Elements & Features
Rights & Disclaimers
57 to 63 Indicators Authority & Audience
(on/off blog) Blog Publishing Activity
Post Features
Archiving
(SR: 49.5%)

16.
results
part II

17.
SCHOLARSHIP
Public 100%
Allows use and
Scholarly exchange 94%
record
80%
Subject to
critical
review 68%
66% agree with
all three criteria
Association of Research
Libraries (1986).
Braxton, J.M., Luckey, W.,
BLOGGER & Helland, P. (2002).

18.
SCHOLARLY LIFE
PROMOTION
GREATER VISIBILITY
WORK ENJOYMENT
TEACHING QUALITY
SHARING PRE-PUBS IMPROVED
WRITING EFFICIENCY NEITHER
WRITING QUALITY IMPAIRED
RESEARCH QUALITY
RESEARCH CREATIVITY
RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
BLOGGER

19.
INVITATIONS
… impact & reward
%
… to present
BLOGGER

20.
INVITATIONS
… impact & reward
%
… to collaborate
BLOGGER

21.
INVITATIONS
… impact & reward
%
… to serve
BLOGGER

22.
INVITATIONS
… impact & reward
%
… to publish
BLOGGER

23.
PRESERVATION
%
preservation for public access
& use into the indefinite future
BLOGGER

24.
PRESERVATION
Personal access/use 16%
Short-term future
Public access/use 19%
Short-term future
Personal access/use 76%
Indefinite future
Public access/use 80%
Indefinite future
0% 100%
BLOGGER

25.
100%
90%
80%
70% Blogger
Co-Author(s)
60%
Provider/Host/Network
50% Search Engine
Public Trust
40%
30%
20%
RESPONSIBILITY CAPABILITY
BLOGGER preservation

26.
100%
90%
80% Blogger
Co-Author(s)
70%
Provider/Host/Network
60% Search Engine
50% Public Trust
40% Nat'l Library
Nat'l Archive
30%
Inst'l Library
20%
Inst'l Archive
10% Inst'l IT Dept
0%
RESPONSIBILITY CAPABILITY
BLOGGER preservation

27.
Better things to do
BLOGGERS

28.
PRESERVATION PRIORITY
Journal articles
Books
Blogs
Peer-Reviewed Pubs Blogs
Published Papers
Journal articles
Filter
Dissertations
Teaching materials
& Theses
Blogs
Pedagogical Research & Tools Class
Self-Publications Blogs
Traditional Publications
Lab Notebooks Select
Scientific & Scholarly Research
Monographs Blog Posts
Works-in-progress
Email
Informal Publications
Law review articles Personnel
Book Reviews Books Communications
HIGHER LOWER
BLOGGER

29.
Better things to do
Personal responsibility
BLOGGERS

30.
SAVING
Subscription
services
Export tools
Personal
back-ups
Document/text files
Via syndication
services %
Purposefully save entire blog via an
archiving service or independently
BLOGGER

31.
SAVING
Export tools
Personal
back-ups
Document/text files
Via syndication
services %
Purposefully save some
blog components
BLOGGER

32.
Better things to do
Personal responsibility
Personal communications
BLOGGERS

33.
DISCLAIMERS
Own
opinion
Not
responsible
Advice %
have an explicit or implicit
disclaimer-style statement
BLOG

34.
Better things to do
Personal responsibility
Personal communications
Bad experience
BLOGGERS

35.
if?
What
35/48

36.
SADNESS RELIEF DOUBT
ANGER C’EST LA VIE

37.
Pretty
bad.
Devastated,
both emotionally and
professionally.
Very
sad.
SADNESS RELIEF DOUBT
ANGER C’EST LA VIE

38.
I’d do something
drastic [in response].
Mad as hell.
Pretty
peeved. Angry
& upset.
SADNESS RELIEF DOUBT
ANGER C’EST LA VIE

39.
I don’t have to
do it anymore. I get half an
hour of my
life back.
SADNESS RELIEF DOUBT
ANGER C’EST LA VIE

40.
Probably
have a drink &
forget about it.
Not welcomed
but not tragic …
I’d get over it.
Pour another cup
of coffee & get
Drop out … back to work.
until something else
comes along.
SADNESS RELIEF DOUBT
ANGER C’EST LA VIE

41.
It would take an
extreme catastrophe.
How would
that happen?
SADNESS RELIEF DOUBT
ANGER C’EST LA VIE

42.
BLOG DELETION
%
have deleted a blog
BLOGGER

43.
POST DELETION
Duplicate
Post
“Post Regret”
Too sensitive or
revealing %
delete posts after publication
BLOGGER

44.
POST EDITING
%
edit posts after publication
BLOGGER

45.
RIGHTS & USE
Copyright
Statement
(n=34)
Creative
Commons
(n=13)
%
no rights or use statements
at blog or post level
BLOG

46.
next?
what’s
part III

47.
AVAILABLE BUT INACTIVE
Not actively
published to
in previous
3 months
(n=156) %
left no message behind
on where they went or
if they will be back
BLOG

48.
DISPATCHES FROM
BLOG PURGATORY
reviewing 1700+ blogs listed
BLOG

49.
BIBLIOBLOGGERS
BLOG
Questionnaires
Interviews
BLOGGER Blog Analysis
CV Analysis
2012 OCLC/ALISE LISRGP
With Cassidy Sugimoto, CO-PI (IUB)

50.
TEACHING IN THE AGE OF FACEBOOK …
LIS FACULTY AND STUDENTS’ FRIENDING AND POKING IN THE SOCIAL SPHERE
FOCUS 1:1 POLICY WEB-BASED
GROUPS INTERVIEWS ANALYSIS SURVEYS
FEB-MAR-APR-MAY 2012 JUN-JUL-AUG 2012 SEPT-OCT –NOV 2012
EXPLORATORY DESCRIPTIVE
2012 ALISE RESEARCH GRANT
With Cassidy Sugimoto (IUB) &
Jeff Pomerantz and Fred Stutzman (UNC)

51.
SOURCES
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Braxton, J.M., Luckey, W., & Helland, P. (2002). Institutionalizing a broader view of
scholarship through Boyer’s four domains: ASHE-ERIC higher education report. San
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Hagstrom, W.O. (1965). The scientific community. New York, NY: Basic Books.
Murray, R., & Moore, S. (2006). The handbook of academic writing: A fresh approach.
Maidenhead, UK: Open University Press.
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52.
THANK YOU
CAROLYN HANK
Email: carolyn.hank@mcgill.ca
Phone: (001)514.398.4684
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