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
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