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 Meeting27 January 2011

KNAW e-Humanities Group / Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences (VKS)

Project Coordinator: Nicholas W. JankowskiParticipants: Anne Beaulieu, Clifford Tatum, Andrea Scharnhorst

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SURF: launch, 19 Jan. 2011 Duurzame toegang

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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)

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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.”

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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 issuesalso • availability & sustainability• ownership & responsibility• peer reviewed, ranked, cited & commented• balancing complexity & utility

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e-Humanities Group EP project: Objectives

1. 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.

2. Database: aggregation of content across sites, relationships, underpinnings & context made explicit

3. Dissemination: conference panels & workshop, instructional materials

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e-Humanities Group: Deliverables

• Web sites complementing 4 booksVariety of ways of engaging with books

digital objects, enhancement of contentcommunication possibilitiesvisibility, 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

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Rethinking the Template: enhancing e-Research

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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

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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;

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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?

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Reflection: Imagining Enhancement in Scholarly Publications http://scimaps.org/atlas/

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‘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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