new forms of collaboration in humanities research
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Social Scholarship and Collaboration
Can We All Just Work Together? New Forms of Collaboration in Humanities Research:
Technological Enablers !
28 January 2014
Blinkist
Readings‣ Spiro : Signs Social Scholarship is Catching On ‣ Friedlander: Asking Questions
"the practice of scholarship in which the use of social tools is an integral part of the research and publishing process"
Spiro’s Evidence‣ Individual commitment by scholars to open access ‣ Development of open access publishing outlets ‣ Availability of tools to support collaboration ‣ Experiments with social peer review ‣ Development of social networks to support open
exchanges of knowledge ‣ Support for collaboration by funding agencies ‣ More broadly, universities are emphasizing community as
key part of graduate education.
Spiro’s Challenges to DS‣ Lack of awareness of social scholarship ‣ Intellectual property concerns ‣ Skepticism about the quality of electronic-only
publications ‣ Lack of recognition for social scholarship ‣ Lack of time to make work available online ‣ Cultural obstacles ‣ Need for sound economic models for open access
publication
Spiro’s Proposals‣ Develop tools that enable researchers to what they
already do, but better; ‣ Make social scholarship cool; ‣ Assuage concerns about intellectual property; ‣ Experiment with new models for open access publication; ‣ Make the case that social scholarship is good and good
for you
Freidlander‣ A New Langauage ‣ A New way of framing big questions as smaller tasks ‣ A New means of communicating to deal with magnitude/
velocity/acceleration - inundation ‣ The Space and Time conundrum ‣ Other disciplines do one or the other - not both ‣ —> Social Networking ‣ Call for infrastructure —> DARIAH
Objective‣ What does collaboration 'really' mean?
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‣ A Few tools and couple case studies ‣ Crowdsourcing transcription ‣ Crowdsourcing Contributions to Content ‣ Open Source Development
How Do You Engage?‣ Twitter ‣ Mailing Lists / Listservs (HUMANIST) ‣ Academia.edu/ResearchGate ‣ Quora ‣ Use of CommentPress/Diges.it ‣ Attending Conferences ‣ Forums ‣ Dropbox / Google Drive ‣ Digital Humanities Blogs ‣ Email ‣ Seminars ‣ Webinars
‣ LinkedIn Groups ‣ Moodle ‣ Skype ‣ Virtual Conferences ‣ Snail Mail ‣ Research Institutes ‣ Face-to-Face Engagement ‣ Zotero Groups ‣ Hastac.org ‣ Humanist Archives ‣ Workshops ‣ Podcasts (Dan Cohen)
Wordpress as Examplar‣ Matt Mullenweg: The Four Freedoms (http://ma.tt/
2014/01/four-freedoms/) ‣ 9.2M dowloads in Decemeber 2013 ‣ 29,000 free plug-ins created ‣ over 100,000+ make a living directly from WordPress ‣ 21% of all websites in the world powered by WP
Roosevelt to Stallman
1. Freedom of speech. 2. Freedom of worship. 3. Freedom from want. 4. Freedom from fear.
1. Freedom to run the program, for any purpose.
2. Freedom to study how the program worksand change it to work as you wish.
3. Freedom to redistribute copiesso you can help your neighbor.
4. Freedom to distribute copies of your modifiedversions, giving the community a chance to benefit from your changes.
"The most experienced entrepreneurs can cling to the concept that your idea is something precious that must be
protected from the world, and meted out in a controlled way. Lots of us hang on to the assumption that scarcity creates a
proprietary advantage. It’s how many non-tech markets work."
"The four freedoms don’t limit us as creators — they open possibilities for us as creators and consumers. When you
apply them to software, you get Linux, Webkit/Chrome, and WordPress. When you apply them to medicine, you get the
Open Genomics Engine, which is accelerating cancer research and bringing us closer to personalized treatment.
When you apply them to companies, you get radically geographically distributed, results-based organizations like
Automattic. When you apply them to events you get TEDx, Barcamp, and WordCamp. When you apply them to
knowledge, you get Wikipedia."
Language of Access Project‣ Kings College London ‣ A DH Module based on: ‣ Practical skills training on the running of focus groups for
members of the general public ‣ Some of the tricks of search engine optimisation that may
help make your research more visible on Google ‣ Explore the potential of Linked Data – a new web technology
that promises to transform access to research in the years to come.
HASTAC(Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory)‣ http://hastac.org ‣ €€€€’s Fellowships ‣ Networks ‣ Visualisation and Topologisation
Collaborating: HubZERO‣ http://hubzero.org ‣ Modules Include: ‣ Person Services ‣ Resource Management ‣ Issue Tracker ‣ Code or Data Repository ‣ Website/Wiki ‣ Documentation Management
Collaborating: GitHUB‣ https://github.com/ ‣ Modules Include: ‣ Resource Management ‣ Issue Tracker ‣ Code or Data Repository ‣ Website/Wiki ‣ Documentation Management
Collaboration/Project Management: BaseCamp‣ https://basecamp.com ‣ Project Management ‣ Integrated Messaging ‣ Resource Management ‣ Scheduling ‣ Document Sharing
Scripto‣ Alternatives ‣ Also Mediawiki Based ‣ and works on top: ‣ Omeka ‣ Wordpress ‣ Drupal
Zooniverse‣ http://zooniverse.org
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‣ Space, Climate, Nature, Biology ‣ Citizen Scientists = Crowdsourcing ‣ Nearly 1M registered partners ‣ Old Weather
Themes‣ Openess ‣ Open Access ‣ Horizontal and Dynamic ‣ Research Communities based on networking and interaction ‣ Natural quality control ‣ Collaborative research ‣ New forms of electronic publication ‣ Multidisciplinary and multilanguage ‣ Confident and proactive
Engagement‣ How can a forum or twitter augment traditional
courseware delivery? ‣ Who pays for open access? ‣ How can open access to research products be sustained
and maintained? ‣ How can national libraries be engaged in this process?
Next Week: Finding Please take a look at:
The Europeana Strategic Plan
Thank [email protected] @iridium