Discovering Digital Medievalists

by Nicholas Jankowski June 18, 2011

A short response on the Humanist Discussion Group about journal editing software was enough to send me on a discovery trip this morning to a journal about which I was previously unaware: Digital Medievalist. Many aspects of this online-only open access title are interesting, two of which have already been noted: online and open access. [...]

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Ethics and Ethnography

by Anne Beaulieu June 15, 2011

An outcome of a fine collaboration, fed by lots of discussions with Annamaria Carusi and with members of the Virtual Ethnography Collaboratory–thanks everyone! Beaulieu, Anne and Adolfo Estalella. In Press, 2012. Rethinking Research Ethics for Mediated Settings. Information, Communication and … Continue reading →

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Augmenting WordPress for Enhanced Publication

by Clifford Tatum June 10, 2011

A recent post, titled: Web 2.0 and/or Semantic Web?, provides background and rationale for our hybrid approach to enhanced publications. The diagram below is an expression of this approach. In this project, like many others in the VKS/eHumanities portfolio, we employ WordPress Content Management Software (CMS) as the foundation for digital scholarship. The diagram displays [...]

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Enhancing Scholarly Publications: Presentation in Ljubljana

by Nicholas Jankowski June 8, 2011

I have just completed the slides for a presentation on enhanced publications to be given at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, on 10 June 2011, which are available here. It’s always a pleasure preparing slides for such presentations and I delighted this time in searching for images of Ted Nelson’s notion of [...]

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Web 2.0 and/or Semantic Web?

by Clifford Tatum June 5, 2011

The eHumanities Enhanced Publication (EP) project is envisioned as a hybrid platform that leverages Web 2.0 participatory modes of scholarly communication combined with formalized content structures imposed by Semantic Web formats. Translating this vision into a database design and formalized object relationships brings into focus contemporary tensions related to scholarly communication in the digital era. [...]

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Rankings under Groninger fire

by P.F. Wouters May 26, 2011

Rafael Wittek, director of the Internuniversity Center for
Social Science Theory and Methodology, based at the University of Groningen,
recently attacked Dutch university policies at the occasion of the 25th
anniversary of his famous gra…

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PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference 2011

by Nicholas Jankowski May 24, 2011

The Public Knowledge Project is organizing the bi-annual Third International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference, September 26 – 28, 2011, in Berlin, in collaboration  with the Freie Universität Berlin. This particular PKP conference provides opportunity to celebrate and reflect on the decade-old Open Access Initiative, launched in December 2001. We are pleased to be included in the program of this [...]

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Scholarly Communication: Symposium Panel & Journal Theme Issue

by Nicholas Jankowski May 24, 2011

Members of the eHumanities Group Enhanced Publications (EP) Project are involved in two panels scheduled in the iCS / OII Symposium A Decade in Internet Time, at the University of Oxford, 21-24 September 2011. One of the panels deals with changes in scholarly communication, including issues related to enhanced publishing; the second panel includes editors [...]

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Enhancement: Issues of Form and Content

by Nicholas Jankowski May 23, 2011

I am frequently impressed by the stunning designs of websites maintained by colleagues, research projects, and academic institutions, which strikingly refute the conventional stereotype of monochrome staidness and simplicity associated with scholarly labor. Examples of beautiful scholarly sites abound, but three serve to illustrate such contrast to the stereotype: the site of the department program [...]

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Open access, enhancement and a court injunction

by Nicholas Jankowski May 20, 2011

SAGE Open Yesterday, 19 May, SAGE announced publication of the first set of articles in its open access journal SAGE Open. The announcement about the event indicates that these articles represent the initial group of manuscripts accepted for publication from more than 400 submissions since the initiative was announced in January 2011. Such a volume within a [...]

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