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

Transcribing Bentham

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

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 Youshawn.day@ucc.ie @iridium