1. Enhancing Scholarly Publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Innovation through Hybrid Forms of Publication SURFfoundation Program Enhanced Publication Launch Meeting 19 January 2011 KNAW e-Humanities Group/Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences ( VKS ) Project Coordinator:Nicholas W. Jankowski Participants:Anne Beaulieu, Clifford Tatum, Andrea Scharnhorst 19 Jan. 2011 KNAW e-Humanities Group

2. Enhancing Books in the Humanities & Social Sciences:Polity Press 19 Jan. 2011 KNAW e-Humanities Group 3. Enhancing Books:Univ. Of Mich. Press 19 Jan. 2011 KNAW e-Humanities Group 4. VKS: enhancinge-Research 19 Jan. 2011 KNAW e-Humanities Group 5. SURF EP project:Our Objectives

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., submittedMIT 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 ofDigital Formationsseries, forthcoming 2011.

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

Dissemination :conference panels & workshop, instructional materials

19 Jan. 2011 KNAW e-Humanities Group 6. One of the hybrids:Virtual Knowledge

Since beginnings, discussion of digital form

Different speeds

• Paper path

• Digital path

Opportunity for progress via SURF

• Incentive

• Expertise

• Structuring of activities

19 Jan. 2011 KNAW e-Humanities Group 7. Project Deliverables

Web sites complementing 4 books

• Variety of ways of engaging with books

• digital objects, enhancement of content

• communication possibilities

• visibility, presence

Database, bundling of projects=critical mass

• Technological advantage (portal-style Web site for books)

• Mutual learning, inspiration (authorss sandbox)

• Exemplar (proposal to publisher to expand database concept)

Dissemination to users-producers

• Conference panel presentations (OII: 2), workshop (AoIR)

• Preparation journal theme issue(s) (NM&S, FM)

• (self) instructional materials

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