Digital humanities and open access toolsPierre Mounier (EHESS -

OpenEdition)Universita’ degli studi di Torino – 23/10/2014

Are humanities and social sciences « late » on open

access ?

NEW PRACTICES

« 9. We call for open access to data and metadata, which must be documented and interoperable, both technically and

conceptually.10. We support the dissemination, exchange and free

modification of methods, code, formats and research findings. »

« New modes of research – connected, collaborative, horizontal,

multimodal, multidisciplinary and multilingual – are being developed. Digital practitioners are engaged in new activities and work with new

tools, building databases, developing software, analysing big

datasets, defining conceptual models, collaborating through wikis and pads, communicating through websites, blogs and other social

media. »

« In the field of Digital Humanities, experimental practices, reflexivity and

the collaborative elaboration of standards are deeply interconnected. They are, therefore, an occasion to rethink and extend the Humanities through new

materials, methods and hermeneutics. Furthermore, they represent an

opportunity to redefine our relationship to society through open access to cultural

heritage and the development of collaborative projects which also engage non-academic audiences. Thus, we see

them as pivotal in the future of the Humanities. »

THE EARLY ADOPTERS : OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS

The digital revolution is first and foremost the revolution of access

SURFING ON THE SOCIAL WAVE : BLOGS IN HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

Torill Mortensen & Jill Walker, « Blogging thoughts. Personal publication as an online

research tool », Researching ICTs in Context

Jill Walker, « Blogging from Inside the Ivory Tower »

Torill Mortensen, Thinking with my fingers

« Arguing is a basic ingredient of thinking: our way of structuring our thought would

have been very different without the powerful tool of verbal exchange. So, let's acknowledge that the Internet allows us to think and write in a much more natural way than the one imposed by the written culture

tradition: the dialogical dimension of our thinking is now enhanced by continuous,

liquid exchanges with others. »

G. Origgi

OPEN ACCESS REVOLUTION COMING TO BOOKS

OPEN ACCESS+SOCIAL MEDIA=HUMANITIES 2.0

The humanities and social sciences way of open

access

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Grazie!

pierre.mounier@openedition.org@piotrr70

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