Digital Scholarship Considered:

How new technologies can transform academic work

Available on slideshare.net

http://digitalscholar.wordpress.com/

Outline

Technology New technologies Scholarship Possibilities for digital scholarship Open scholarship?

Technology

Books and journals were first

Still important in some fields

Pros and cons 'Old' technologies

often persist – for good reasons!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nics_events/2394543064/

New technologies

Large number Wide variety High rate of attrition Some big successes

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stabilo-boss/93136022/

Some key characteristics

User generated content but small % of users contribute Content is stored in cloud

Perpetual beta always evolving

Lightweighthttp://oreilly.com/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html

Scholarship

Boyer's “Scholarship Reconsidered” (1990) Discovery Integration Application Teaching

How might new technology affect these dimensions?

Possibilities for digital scholarship

Changing practices not inevitable Discovery – Open data Integration – Open publishing/ social referencing Application – Open engagement? Teaching – Open education

Open data

LHC -15 petabytes p/a

Shared globally Also datacite.org

Open publishing

Open access movement

Global issues Social reference

management

Open engagement?

Blogs Stephen

Downes Danah Boyd

Twitter Dawkins 24k Stephen

Hawking 20k

Open education

OpenCourseWare OpenLearn itunes/U YouTube

Open scholarship?

“the Open Scholar is someone who makes their intellectual projects and processes digitally visible and who invites and encourages ongoing criticism of their work and secondary uses of any or all parts of it--at any stage of its development.”

http://www.academicevolution.com/2009/08/the-open-scholar.html

Next steps

Feedback on digital/open scholarship ideas Here or slideshare, blog

Potential interviewees Digital scholars