4. a blind spot. digital infrastructures for academic blogging
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A blind spot?Digital infrastructures for digital publishing
and for academic blogging in particular
Marin Dacos – CNRSOpenEdition –Director2013 October 14th
• A. The big conversation• B. The rise of the platforms• C. Hypotheses as a platform• D. The digital infrastructures gap
Academic blogging : the missing linkpublic
oral written
private
(conversation)
(conference) (publication)
(correspondance)
The conversation is the essence of collective thinking and research (disputatio)
Woodcut carved by Johann von Armssheim (1483). Portays a disputation between Christian and Jewish scholars (Soncino Blaetter, Berlin, 1929. Jerusalem, B. M. Ansbacher Collection). http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Disputation.jpg
A conversation : comments
2009 2010 2011 2012 20130.00
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Average # of comments per post
A conversation : tweets
OpenEdition Books Calenda Revues.org Hypothèses0.00
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Ratio Nb tweets by documentsept 2014
The silent conversation :fidelity of readership (sept. 2013)
Revues.org Calenda Hypotheses Hypotheses (english) Hypotheses (german)0.00
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3.50
Fidelity score
Conversation again : referrers sept 2012-sept 2013 – Source : OpenEdition – Search engines are removed.
242 000 161 000 70 000
54 00022 000 500 000
* (1500 other refferers)
• A. The big conversation• B. The rise of the platforms• C. Hypotheses as a platform• D. The digital infrastructures gap
Platforms
Critical mass of documentsVisibilityCritical mass of partnersScale economyCritical mass of featuresCapacity of the platform to
survive/evolve
• A. The big conversation• B. The rise of the platforms• C. Hypotheses as a platform• D. The digital infrastructures gap
2010 2011 2012 2013 (projections)0
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Hypotheses - Millions of visits
People are there ! Both scholars and society
1 2 3 4 5
ApplicationTechnical creation
Catalog + ISSN Headline Headline
slider
No visibilyVery light visibility
Good visibility
High visibility
Very high visibilty
Zero value
Very light value
Good value
High value
Very high value
Adding value workflows
A platform dedicated to scholarly work
• Footnotes
• Citability
• Zotero compatible
• ISSN for each blog
• Librarything plugin
• Etc.
Developping Interoperabilites:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wongjunhao/2761709029/in/faves-revuesorg/
• A. The big conversation• B. The rise of the platforms• C. Hypotheses as a platform• D. The digital infrastructures gap
Construction cost (M€)
Socia
l Scie
nces an
d Humanities
Envir
onmental
Scien
ces
Energ
y
Biological
Materia
ls&an
d Analytical
Facili
ties
Physical
Scien
ces an
d Engin
eerin
g 0
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Source : Strategy Report on Research Infrastructures - Roadmap 2010
Construction costs (%)
1% 8%
16%
22%26%
27%
Social Sciences and Humanities
Source : Strategy Report on Research Infrastructures - Roadmap 2010
http://www.flickr.com/photos/giesenbauer/4130759704/in/faves-revuesorg/
Nevertheless, these are the new archives and libraries
http://www.flickr.com/photos/giesenbauer/4130759704/in/faves-revuesorg/
Open Access.. to classic forms of publishing – books and articles… and to new forms so-called « minor forms »Is a key to reconnect HSS to Society
We call it « Le canon à idées »
« A cannon for ideas »
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