Slides, ljubljana presentation, enhanced publications, jankowski, 10 june2011

Enhancing Scholarly Publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences:

Innovation through Hybrid Forms of Publication

Portrait of a Project

University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences10 June 2011

KNAW e-Humanities Group / Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences (VKS)

SURFfoundation Program Enhanced Publication

Project Coordinator: Nicholas W. JankowskiParticipants: Andrea Scharnhorst, Clifford Tatum, Zuotian Tatum

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Enhancing Scholarship...Illustration from long ago

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Enhancing Scholarship...contemporary example 1: Visualizing Cultures

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Enhancing Scholarship...contemporary example 2: JFK: Day by Day

Clarifying the TopicWhat is ‘enhanced publication’?

“…a publication that is enhanced with research data, extra materials, post

publication data, database records (e.g. the Protein Data Bank), and that has

an object-based structure with explicit links between the objects. In this

definition an object can be (part of) an article, a data set, an image, a movie,

a comment, a module or a link to information in a database.”

(Woutersen-Windhouwer & Brandsma, 2009: 20)

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Check list for EPs (partial)(Woutersen-Windhouwer & Brandsma, 2009: 54-55)

• persistent identifiers; unique and global• timestamp & citation info• file types: common• datasets with universal numeric ID• technical quality meriting preservation• consideration of legal issuesalso • availability & sustainability• ownership & responsibility• peer reviewed, ranked, cited & commented• balancing complexity & utility

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Enhanced Publications: clustering components

Central components •Accessibility

– Open access to publications

•Durability– Repositories for publications– Persistent identifiers for objects of publications

•Interoperability– Interlinking of objects

•Replicability– Availability of data for inspection & secondary analysis

Secondary Components•supplementary research materials

– instrumentation, additional analyses

•contextual materials– setting, object of study, background of researcher

•Visualizations– use of color, dynamic figures

•Multimedia– podcasts, videos

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Enhancing Scholarship...template

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Enhancing Scholarship...project objectives: 1

1. Hybrid book publications: Web complement to 4 books – supplementary resources (links, blogs, chapter appendices, author profiles);– chapter visualizations, color (animations, figures, tables)– Hyperlinks (internal &external to texts)– author updating– search features

Books• e-Research: Transformation in Scholarly Practice. N. W. Jankowski, ed., Routledge, 2009.• Virtual Knowledge. P. Wouters, A. Beaulieu, A. Scharnhorst & S. Wyatt, eds., submitted MIT Press.• Digital Media: Concepts & Issues, Research & Resources. N. Jankowski, Polity Press, Digital Media and Society,

forthcoming 2011.• The Long History of New Media: Technology, Historiography, and Newness Contextualized. D. Park, N. Jankowski & S.

Jones, eds., Peter Lang, part of Digital Formations series, forthcoming 2011.

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Enhancing Scholarship...project objectives: 2

2. Database: aggregation of content across sites, relationships, underpinnings & context made explicit

3. Dissemination: conference panels & workshop, instructional materials

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Enhancing Scholarshipillustrating basic principles

• Intertextuality• Intertextual discourse• Publisher initiatives• Aggregration via WordPress

(slides on above points prepared by Clifford Tatum; see presentation, 14 March 2011, Digital Scholarship)

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Next Steps

• Completion of 4 books with WordPress prototype for enhancement (Sept. 2011)

• Presentation of prototypes to publishers & authors (Sept. – Dec. 2011)

• Development & launch of a series of topic-related enhanced scholarly publications (Jan. – June 2012)

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Enhancing Scholarship...enduring questions

• To what extent does enhancement contribute to the quality of an ‘argument’ in a scholarly publication?

• What solutions are available for multiple challenges confronting enhanced scholarly publications?– Preserving / archiving dynamic objects in a Web environment– Interrelating objects of EPs– Convincing key players (publishers, editors, authors) of value and affordability

of EPs

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Enhancing PublicationsThe future...today (1) Our Choice

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Enhancing PublicationsThe future...today (2) Our Choice

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Enhancing PublicationsThe future...tomorrow: Project Xanadu

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Thank You!

Comments & Questions

Further informationDigital Scholarship

ContactKNAW e-Humanities Group / Nicholas W. Jankowski

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