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This communication if a part of the panel Minor forms of academic communication: revamping the relationship between science and society? at the World social sciences forum http://www.wssf2013.org/fr/panel-comit%C3%A9/minor-forms-academic-communication-revamping-relationship-between-science-and-society A blind spot? Digital infrastructures for digital publishing, and for academic blogging in particular Author: Mr. Marin Dacos - OpenEdition After several centuries of development, knowledge technologies today form a highly organised ecosystem, structured around books and journals and with its own clearly identified professions, infrastructures and actors. From publishers to librarians, authors to booksellers, a book industry has emerged and encourages the circulation of ideas. With the rise of the network, these roles are slowly being redefined and new actors are rapidly emerging. The 2006 ACLS report (“Our Cultural Commonwealth: The Report of the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences”) is one of the first signs of recognition of the need for digital infrastructures. These infrastructures are not simply confined to “noble” publications i.e. books and journals. They also concern the so-called minor forms of academic communication. Yet developing such infrastructures requires much more than simply installing a server under a desk. On the contrary, digital infrastructures necessitate the creation of platforms, which in turn entail the emergence of new teams and new professions – those of digital publishing. These platforms are often developed or bought up by predatory multinationals (for example, Mendeley absorbed by Elsevier). Academic-led alternatives do exist (Zotero for bibliographies, Hypotheses for blogs), yet the academic community has failed to fully recognise the associated opportunities and risks. The academy has every interest in making sure it does not become marginalised within its own infrastructures. The alternative is to reproduce the vagaries of the extraordinarily concentrated global publishing system, which has stripped the research sector of some of its intellectual and budgetary initiative-taking capacities.
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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
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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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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
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Hypotheses - Millions of visits
People are there ! Both scholars and society
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ApplicationTechnical creation
Catalog + ISSN Headline Headline
slider
No visibilyVery light visibility
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Zero value
Very light value
Good value
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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€)
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l Scie
nces an
d Humanities
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onmental
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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 »
http://openedition.org/
http://cleo.openedition.org
http://oep.hypotheses.org
http://lab.hypotheses.org