This document discusses new forms of collaboration in humanities research enabled by technology. It outlines evidence that social scholarship is growing, including increased open access publishing and tools that support collaboration. Challenges to social scholarship include lack of recognition and concerns about intellectual property and publication quality. The document examines examples of collaborative projects like crowdsourcing transcription and open source development. It argues that applying principles of open access, participation and distribution can accelerate research by engaging communities in knowledge sharing.
4. "the practice of scholarship in which the
use of social tools is an integral part of
the research and publishing process"
5. Spiro’s Evidence
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Individual commitment by scholars to open access
Development of open access publishing outlets
Availability of tools to support collaboration
Experiments with social peer review
Development of social networks to support open
exchanges of knowledge
Support for collaboration by funding agencies
More broadly, universities are emphasizing community as
key part of graduate education.
6. Spiro’s Challenges to DS
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Lack of awareness of social scholarship
Intellectual property concerns
Skepticism about the quality of electronic-only
publications
Lack of recognition for social scholarship
Lack of time to make work available online
Cultural obstacles
Need for sound economic models for open access
publication
7. Spiro’s Proposals
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Develop tools that enable researchers to what they
already do, but better;
Make social scholarship cool;
Assuage concerns about intellectual property;
Experiment with new models for open access publication;
Make the case that social scholarship is good and good
for you
8. Freidlander
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A New Langauage
A New way of framing big questions as smaller tasks
A New means of communicating to deal with magnitude/
velocity/acceleration - inundation
The Space and Time conundrum
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Other disciplines do one or the other - not both
—> Social Networking
Call for infrastructure —> DARIAH
9. Objective
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What does collaboration 'really' mean?
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A Few tools and couple case studies
Crowdsourcing transcription
Crowdsourcing Contributions to Content
Open Source Development
10. How Do You Engage?
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Twitter
Mailing Lists / Listservs (HUMANIST)
Academia.edu/ResearchGate
Quora
Use of CommentPress/Diges.it
Attending Conferences
Forums
Dropbox / Google Drive
Digital Humanities Blogs
Email
Seminars
Webinars
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LinkedIn Groups
Moodle
Skype
Virtual Conferences
Snail Mail
Research Institutes
Face-to-Face Engagement
Zotero Groups
Hastac.org
Humanist Archives
Workshops
Podcasts (Dan Cohen)
11. Wordpress as Examplar
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Matt Mullenweg: The Four Freedoms (http://ma.tt/
2014/01/four-freedoms/)
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9.2M dowloads in Decemeber 2013
29,000 free plug-ins created
over 100,000+ make a living directly from WordPress
21% of all websites in the world powered by WP
12. Roosevelt to Stallman
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Freedom of speech.
Freedom of worship.
Freedom from want.
Freedom from fear.
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Freedom to run the program, for any
purpose.
Freedom to study how the program works
and change it to work as you wish.
Freedom to redistribute copies
so you can help your neighbor.
Freedom to distribute copies of your
modified
versions, giving the community a chance
to benefit from your changes.
13. "The most experienced entrepreneurs can cling to the
concept that your idea is something precious that must be
protected from the world, and meted out in a controlled way.
Lots of us hang on to the assumption that scarcity creates a
proprietary advantage. It’s how many non-tech markets
work."
14. "The four freedoms don’t limit us as creators — they open
possibilities for us as creators and consumers.When you
apply them to software, you get Linux,Webkit/Chrome, and
WordPress.When you apply them to medicine, you get the
Open Genomics Engine, which is accelerating cancer
research and bringing us closer to personalized treatment.
When you apply them to companies, you get radically
geographically distributed, results-based organizations like
Automattic.When you apply them to events you get TEDx,
Barcamp, and WordCamp.When you apply them to
knowledge, you get Wikipedia."
15. Language of Access Project
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Kings College London
A DH Module based on:
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Practical skills training on the running of focus groups for
members of the general public
Some of the tricks of search engine optimisation that may
help make your research more visible on Google
Explore the potential of Linked Data – a new web technology
that promises to transform access to research in the years to
come.
16. HASTAC
(Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced
Collaboratory)
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http://hastac.org
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Networks
Visualisation and Topologisation
25. Themes
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Openess
Open Access
Horizontal and Dynamic
Research Communities based on networking and interaction
Natural quality control
Collaborative research
New forms of electronic publication
Multidisciplinary and multilanguage
Confident and proactive
26. Engagement
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How can a forum or twitter augment traditional
courseware delivery?
Who pays for open access?
How can open access to research products be sustained
and maintained?
How can national libraries be engaged in this process?