Enhanced Publishing in the Social Sciences & Humanities: Tensions, Opportunities, & Problems Center for eResearch CeRch Seminar Series Department of Digital Humanities King’s College London 27 March 2012 Nicholas Jankowski , Clifford Tatum , Andrea Scharnhorst , Sally Wyatt The e-Humanities Group
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Enhanced Publishing in the Social Sciences & Humanities: Tensions, Opportunities, & Problems
Center for eResearch CeRch Seminar Series
Department of Digital HumanitiesKing’s College London
27 March 2012
Nicholas Jankowski, Clifford Tatum, Andrea Scharnhorst, Sally Wyatt
•Replicability– Availability of data for inspection & secondary analysis
Secondary Components
•supplementary research materials– instrumentation, additional analyses
•contextual materials– setting, object of study, background, researcher info
•Visualizations– use of color, dynamic figures
•Multimedia– podcasts, videos
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In Conclusion: ‘Persistent’ Questionsenhancing scholarly publications
•How does enhancement contribute to the quality of a scholarly argument?
•What solutions address the challenges facing enhancement of scholarly publications?
– Preserving dynamic objects in a Web environment– Interrelating objects of enhanced publications– Engaging key players (publishers, editors, authors) in enhancement
•What enhancements are desired by scholars & students; what are the differences between disciplines?
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Intermezzo 1: Questions / Comments
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Intermezzo 2: Questions / Comments
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Operationalizing Enhanced Publications
Andrea Scharnhorst
Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)
The e-Humanities Group
Enhanced Publications: Gone with the Wind?
• Authors
• Publishers
• Libraries/Archives
Nanopublications: www.nanopub.org; Barend Mons, Paul Groth, and many others
- Machine readable, RDF
- Data publishing- Bioinformatics,
semantic web
The Principle of Added Value:The Assertion arises from a well-documented procedure or observation. For example, the Predicate establishing an association between the Subject and the Object could arise from a mathematical model, co-occurrence in text, a new experimental dataset, manually curatedrelations established by experts or from the exposure of an existing database.The Principle of Transparency:The Provenance and Condition refer to who, what, where, when of the Predicate, allowing the quality of the nanopublication to be assessed by others.The Principle of Ambiguity Avoidance:The arguments of the nanopublication (all concepts in the assertion, the condition and the provenance) can be unambiguously resolved to unique concepts.The Principle of Global Reference:Where authority, namespace, accession and version of any nanopublication argument has already been established on the Web, the Unique Resource Identifier (URI) of the concept should be used. Where no URI exists, a Universal and Unique Identifier (UUID) can be generated using the ConceptWiki.
The Universe of e-Research: Grass-root emergence of a domain map
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Will publishers allow access to textshow does that relates to their own eBook efforts?What kind of enhancements do authors want and
do they have time to produce them?
Can SemanticWords be used for collective writing ofbooks? Will the tools be picked up by others?
Could we plugin other existing books to our universe, make it evolving?
Summary: experiences from practice
• Motivating contributors to contribute to EP’s when they have already finished a text is not easy. Reasons for reluctance:
• few rewards in current academic system
• ‘old’ news – move to new projects
• have to learn new skills to do it well, skills that might be out-of-date the next time they come to do such a thing
• What's the added value of pictures and other extra material?
• IP & copyright on images and texts
• Dealing with publishers who have different business model/ different expectations
• Added value of an enhancement versus added value of good publishers
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An archive as protective niche?
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Xpos’re, Leen Breure, VP Cross, NIAS project
Veteran Tapes, Stef Scagliola
‘Our EP’
… many more: DataPlus, JACL, ….
All research information under one roof
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Doctoral Theses (Dissertations)
Archaeological excavations
Publications by Tilburg University researchers
Enhanced Scientific Communication by Aggregated Publication Environments (ESCAPE)
Gallows in Late Medieval Frisia
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In conclusion: Questions / Comments
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Resources
Video 1: Enhancing Scholarly Publications
Video 2: Enhancing Scholarly Publications
Jankowski, NW, C. Tatum, Z. Tatum, A. Scharnhorst (2011). Enhancing Scholarly Publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Innovation through Hybrid Forms of Publication. In PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference 2011. Berlin. Available at SSRN