jankowski, kcl cerch presentation, enhanced scholarly publications, with notes, 27march2012

Enhanced Publishing in the Social Sciences & Humanities: Tensions, Opportunities, & Problems

Center for eResearch CeRch Seminar Series

Department of Digital HumanitiesKings’s College London

27 March 2012

Andrea Scharnhorst, Nick Jankowski, Clifford Tatum, Sally Wyatt

KNAW e-Humanities Group

Overview: Enhanced Publishing

•Part 1: Panoramic Overview (NJ)•Part 2: Conceptualizing Enhancement (CT)•Part 3: Operationalizing Enhancement (AS)•General Discussion

ca. 15 min. per partintermezzos between parts

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What is an ‘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)

* Data* Structure (linking)

* Objects (components)

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Enhancing Scholarship...Intern’l J. of Internet Science

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Enhancing Scholarship...Illustration from long ago

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Enhancing Scholarship...Visualizing Culture

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Enhancing PublicationsOur Choice; Solar System, JFK: Day by Day; Imagining the Iliad, The Waste Land

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Enhancing Scholarship...AAUP report

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Enhancing Scholarship...Bloomsbury Academic

•Hybrid•Linking•Resources•Business model?

Enhancing Scholarship...Cell Press (Cell Reports) (Elsevier, Article of the Future)

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Enhancing Scholarship...SAGE Publications: communicationspace

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Towards a Typology of EnhancementsRich Internet Publications (Beure, Voorbij, & Hoogerwerf, J. of Digital Information, 12/1, 2011)

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Enhanced Publications: clustering components

Central components

•Accessibility– Open access

•Durability– Repositories

– Persistent identifiers for objects of publications

• Interoperability– Interlinking of objects

– Dynamic references

•Discourse– Reader comments, author updates & responses

•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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