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May 06, 2015
Digital scholarship: Exploration of strategies and skills for knowledge creation and dissemination
Cristobal Cobo Oxford Internet Ins2tute, Oxford University, England
Concepcion Naval,
University of Navarra, Spain 1
2 (Planned Obsolescence, Fitzpatrick., 2011)
Two relevant dimensions: knowledge generation (wikis,
e-science, online education, distributed R&D, open
innovation, open science, peer-based production, UGC)
+ new models of knowledge distribution (e-journals,
open repositories, open licenses, dataweb archive). 3
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••Today's initiatives in cyber- infrastructure, e-
Science, e-Humanities or e-Learning emerged
from a period combining technological advances
and economic-institutional redefinitions (Borgman, 2007)
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•Exponential transformation of information is
remarkable from the quantitative perspective,
but also there fragmentation of mechanisms to
create, access and distribute information. 5
••New modes of scholarship of collaborative,
trans-disciplinary and computationally
engaged research, teaching and publication. (Burdick, et al, 2012).
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•••Digital scholarship communities collaborate in
dynamic, flexible/open-ended networks, exchanging
in innovation, creativity/co-authoring.
(i.e open Science Federation)
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•Radical decentralization: Open values, ideology
and potential of technologies born of peer-to-
peer networking and wiki-ways. (Benkler, 2006)
(i.e. BioMed Central, Public Library of Science)
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drivers
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•EU Commission + ESRC: Accelerate open access..
OA journals + databases facilitating mechanism of
open peer revision + visibility/impact (avoid duplication).
1. Technology: Coordination mechanisms ‒ exchange and codify tacit knowledge, simplifying its
translation into more interchangeable resources
(i.e. DOAJ, PeerJ, Rubriq)
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(Heimeriks & Vasileiadou, 2008).
•Books > dialogical tool not simply
“finished*published” but open to dynamics +
iterations (i.e. versioning, crowd-source, peer
reviewed, remix). Burdick (et al., 2012)
2. Co-creation: Networking +Coordination +Cooperation
+Collaboration. (Rheingold, 2012)
The higher the level of negotiation the more
complex the set of skills required.
(i.e. Flat World Knowledge, Creative Crowdwriting)
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•Do-it-yourself publishing: Blogs, photos + videos (Nielsen, 2011).
Less clear distinction between popular and more specialized scholarship (Burdick, 2012).
3. Dissemination: New open-access policies (open
repositories/journals) almost anyone anywhere.
“If it doesn’t spread, it’s dead” (Jenkins et al., 2010).
4’R: reuse, revise, remix and redistribute. (Wiley, 2010).
(i.e. CreateSpace or Blurb)
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•~20 mill. papers +50years:
Cross-disciplinary teams dominate solo authors
and frequently more cited than individuals (Wuchty, 2007)
•4. Co-Authorship/beta: From solitary genius toward the
virtually boundless community of digital scholars (Burdick, et al, 2012)).
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Will universities institutionalize approaches (learning and
research) grounded in collaboration instead of celebrity
and competition?
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•a) traditional practices of peer-review. To
assure the quality of knowledge creation /
dissemination .
b) Mode 2, post-normal science + technoscience (Burdick, et al, 2012).
Critique: Need to recognize distinction between DIY
scholarship and high scholarship.
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(i.e Wikipedia)
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•More appropriate institutional recognition are needed
(i.e. A tenure evaluation system that recognizes the
value of more flexible mechanisms of knowledge
creation and new publication formats).
Is not easy to determine to what extent traditional
and new practices of scholarship will coexist.
(i.e. Reinventing Discovery, Nielsem) 2011)
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•The Stick or the carrot: academic mechanisms of
recognition (in many cases) are limited to metrics
such as ‘h-index' affecting to possibilities to
facilitate peers based collaboration (Hirsch, 2005)
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Due to these elements of exclusiveness/
individualism, knowledge-sharing in academic
organizations are often inefficient (Seonghee and Boryung, 2008)
The highly competitive environment (dysfunctional)
enhance lack of partnership (Kanwar, Kodhandaraman, and Umar, 2010).
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(Adler and Harzing, 2009)
‘The shift in knowledge landscape is disturbing to
people familiar with the earlier paradigm’. (Chesbrough, 2006)
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Appropriating these tools/practices requires a new set
of skills (i.e. Curation, editing, modelling) to work
across an information ecosystem full of new
intermediaries. 20
New cultural practices: institutional flexibility (i.e.
diversifying tenure track, re- understand concepts
such as academic visibility or digital influence).
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Oxford Internet Ins2tute Research Fellow. 22