A Networked Archipelago of Digital Publishing at WVU

A Networked Archipelago of Digital Publishing at WVUDr. Cheryl E. Ball | English Department

(Digital) Publishing Studiestheorized practice focus on productioninterdisciplinaryresearch about publishing practices

courtesy of Maia C, Flickr CC license

Publishing studies > rhetoric,technical & professional writing, print culture/book history, design studies, scholarly communication, intellectual property, & editorial practices across many publication genres.

http://kairos.technorhetoric.net

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I prefer the term webtexts because that is the term that the journal I edit, Kairos, has historically used. Webtexts are screen-based, peer-reviewed scholarship that use the affordances of the Web to deliver their research arguments. Kairos publishes research about rhetoric, technology, and writing pedagogy, and is entering its 20th year of OA publication.

http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/13.2/topoi/delagrange/index.html

Principal of webtext deisgn: UNIQUE DESIGNS, where form::content meet.

A major goal of webtexts is to enact their rhetorical arguments through design work. (This is a piece from 2009, argument about juxtaposition and wunderkammers facilitating invention)

Webtext principal: Process-based researchIn the August issue of Kairos, interaction design researchers Einar Sneve Martinussen, Jrn Knutsen, and Timo Arnall (2014) published a peer-reviewed webtext that showcases the design-process methodologies they used to construct a project called Satellite Lamps.

As Martinussen (2013) explained, the team explored and visualized howGPS takes place in urban environments. The team has looked at therelationships between urban space, time and satellite-geometry, anddesign and has developed instruments and techniques for visualising the presence and the fluctuations of satellite signals.

Satellite Lamps

http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/19.1/inventio/martinussen-et-al/index.html

The opening video shows how the teams time-lapse film methodology works to visualise these signals. The three authors worked together to produce the video, as well as curate multiple slideshows from their photographic archive, research additional scholarly materials for the rich transdisciplinary literature review, write the linguistic (written) content, and design the webtext in Ruby (which they had to transfer to HTML for Kaiross archival purposes).

Kairos isnt the only journal in digital writing studies, or more broadly in media studies, that publishes webtexts. Other journals have been in or more recently joined this publishing field, such as Computers and Composition Online (published from 19961999 and 2001present), which is the strongest contender to Kairos. But there is also Enculturation, Vectors Journal, Harlot of the Arts, the Journal of Artistic Research, Public, and a few others.

> Ive researched technical sustainability and longevity of these journals, most of which dont gave a great track record.

c. Inge Ove Tysnes

All this leads me back to a lack of technical infrastructure that can handle these types of processes for innovative and multimedia journals > Vega [Fulbright, Mellon grant, name of platform, Norway, archipelago, islands/tide]

Vega FeaturesAuthor toolsmultimedia authoringLaTeX conversioncollaborative writingEditor toolsopen/closed peer-reviewa/synchronous reviewversion control & DAMVenue toolsmodular workflowsOA or embargoedrich metadatacross-refs & retraction features

modularity for venues, FREE, multimedia, data sets,

collecting beta testers & minimal publicity.timeline = Fall 2017/Spring 2018

c. Inge Ove Tysnes

While Vega is a collab project with Norwegians, it will eventually live at WVU, in WVU Libraries, specifically under banner of Digital Publishing Institute.

DPI:Digital PublishingInstituteIn progress!

whiteboard drawing after a DTF meeting

DPI branches

3 branches of DPI

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