Hello everyone,
This Saturday I am flying to Kenya to participate in the Workshop on the Discoverability of African Scholarship Online organised by the OpenUCT Initiative and Carnegie Corporation (some info at http://openuct.uct.ac.za/events/workshop-discoverability-african-scholarship...).
As the workshop's documentation states it,
The requirement by funders and research agencies that open access outputs
not only be online, but also that content be curated and archived in repositories and databases with associated metadata in line with international best practice, additionally means that the content generated by the North will generally be shared in a fashion that facilitates optimal findability and interoperability.
Visibility and interoperability with other online platforms and databases is crucial not only in terms of boosting access to knowledge, but also in facilitating new forms of digital and inter-disciplinary research that are made possible through text mining and federated search functionality. The growing divide in content visibility and curation is therefore also highly undesirable in that it threatens to decrease the scope of the global knowledge corpus by virtue of the fact that knowledge from certain parts of the world will be less likely to have been curated and shared in line with the international protocols that facilitate content exchange and digital scholarship.
[...]
There is evidence that individual African scholars have taken the
initiative of establishing their own websites and promoting academic output online through personal or disciplinary-oriented channels. Undertaking research, digitising the outputs (or even having them 'born digital' in original electronic form) and putting these online is however not sufficient. Some strategy is required in order to approach the exercise in an efficient and cost effective manner so that research can be visible, discoverable and communicated in order to create and maximise value. These activities require specific competencies and activities which have only come into being in recent years; while rapidly emerging globally, they are generally in short supply or still largely unknown amongst many African academics, and to some extent within institutions as a whole.
I am particularly keen in having a conversation about the importance of networks when it comes to creating a critical mass if not a culture of research sharing. The evolution of free/affordable technologies that enhance access, dissemination, archiving/harvesting, citation and measurement of research has been fast in many developed economies, but their adoption in other countries and cultures is not without challenges (and opportunities) of all kinds. The burden of the individual researcher to enhance the visibility of his/her individual research can be a full time occupation for which a particularly privileged setting/working/social conditions and technical expertise is often needed.
I am sharing with you these thoughts because I am interested in what role the digital humanities can play in this context. Are DH research projects/outputs merely a subgroup of all research subject to online discoverability, or are the digital humanities a potentially key player in the development of strategies to make research visible and accessible online? Is the development of technologies and strategies to enhance the discoverability, accessibility, sustainability, preservation etc. of [particularly social sciences, arts and humanities] research?
I believe that the "global" digital humanities face some of the same challenges as African reseachers in terms of getting the work to be seen, cited, recognised, and in terms of being able to create international networks, access funding and other research development opportunities, etc.
Any thoughts from you will be incredibly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
All the best,
Ernesto
*Dr Ernesto Priego*Lecturer in Library Science #citylis City University London
MediaCommons' THE NEW EVERYDAY is happy to announce the publication of a cluster on THE MULTIMODALITY OF COMICS IN EVERYDAY LIFE, curated by Ernesto Priego of City University London and David N. Wright of Douglas College. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/tne/cluster/multimodality-comics-eve...
http://epriego.wordpress.com/ @ernestopriegohttps://twitter.com/ernestopriego Editor-in-Chief, *The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship * http://www.comicsgrid.com/ Subscribe to the Comics Grid Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/iOYAj
Apologies, one of my questions above was truncated. It meant to say:
Is the development of technologies and strategies to enhance the discoverability, accessibility, sustainability, preservation etc. of [particularly social sciences, arts and humanities] research part of the work the global digital humanities should be doing?
Cheers.
*Dr Ernesto Priego*Lecturer in Library Science #citylis City University London
MediaCommons' THE NEW EVERYDAY is happy to announce the publication of a cluster on THE MULTIMODALITY OF COMICS IN EVERYDAY LIFE, curated by Ernesto Priego of City University London and David N. Wright of Douglas College. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/tne/cluster/multimodality-comics-eve...
http://epriego.wordpress.com/ @ernestopriegohttps://twitter.com/ernestopriego Editor-in-Chief, *The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship * http://www.comicsgrid.com/ Subscribe to the Comics Grid Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/iOYAj
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 10:21 AM, Ernesto Priego efpriego@gmail.com wrote:
Hello everyone,
This Saturday I am flying to Kenya to participate in the Workshop on the Discoverability of African Scholarship Online organised by the OpenUCT Initiative and Carnegie Corporation (some info at http://openuct.uct.ac.za/events/workshop-discoverability-african-scholarship...).
As the workshop's documentation states it,
The requirement by funders and research agencies that open access outputs
not only be online, but also that content be curated and archived in repositories and databases with associated metadata in line with international best practice, additionally means that the content generated by the North will generally be shared in a fashion that facilitates optimal findability and interoperability.
Visibility and interoperability with other online platforms and databases is crucial not only in terms of boosting access to knowledge, but also in facilitating new forms of digital and inter-disciplinary research that are made possible through text mining and federated search functionality. The growing divide in content visibility and curation is therefore also highly undesirable in that it threatens to decrease the scope of the global knowledge corpus by virtue of the fact that knowledge from certain parts of the world will be less likely to have been curated and shared in line with the international protocols that facilitate content exchange and digital scholarship.
[...]
There is evidence that individual African scholars have taken the
initiative of establishing their own websites and promoting academic output online through personal or disciplinary-oriented channels. Undertaking research, digitising the outputs (or even having them 'born digital' in original electronic form) and putting these online is however not sufficient. Some strategy is required in order to approach the exercise in an efficient and cost effective manner so that research can be visible, discoverable and communicated in order to create and maximise value. These activities require specific competencies and activities which have only come into being in recent years; while rapidly emerging globally, they are generally in short supply or still largely unknown amongst many African academics, and to some extent within institutions as a whole.
I am particularly keen in having a conversation about the importance of networks when it comes to creating a critical mass if not a culture of research sharing. The evolution of free/affordable technologies that enhance access, dissemination, archiving/harvesting, citation and measurement of research has been fast in many developed economies, but their adoption in other countries and cultures is not without challenges (and opportunities) of all kinds. The burden of the individual researcher to enhance the visibility of his/her individual research can be a full time occupation for which a particularly privileged setting/working/social conditions and technical expertise is often needed.
I am sharing with you these thoughts because I am interested in what role the digital humanities can play in this context. Are DH research projects/outputs merely a subgroup of all research subject to online discoverability, or are the digital humanities a potentially key player in the development of strategies to make research visible and accessible online? Is the development of technologies and strategies to enhance the discoverability, accessibility, sustainability, preservation etc. of [particularly social sciences, arts and humanities] research?
I believe that the "global" digital humanities face some of the same challenges as African reseachers in terms of getting the work to be seen, cited, recognised, and in terms of being able to create international networks, access funding and other research development opportunities, etc.
Any thoughts from you will be incredibly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
All the best,
Ernesto
*Dr Ernesto Priego *Lecturer in Library Science #citylis City University London
MediaCommons' THE NEW EVERYDAY is happy to announce the publication of a cluster on THE MULTIMODALITY OF COMICS IN EVERYDAY LIFE, curated by Ernesto Priego of City University London and David N. Wright of Douglas College.
http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/tne/cluster/multimodality-comics-eve...
http://epriego.wordpress.com/ @ernestopriegohttps://twitter.com/ernestopriego Editor-in-Chief, *The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship * http://www.comicsgrid.com/ Subscribe to the Comics Grid Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/iOYAj
My answer is an emphatic yes for both questions:
* Are the digital humanities a potentially key player in the development of strategies to make research visible and accessible online?
* Is the development of technologies and strategies to enhance the discoverability, accessibility, sustainability, preservation etc. of [particularly social sciences, arts and humanities] research part of the work the global digital humanities should be doing?
GO::DH's work on Rewriting Wikipedia is huge for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) because of how search engines use Wikipedia for rating and delivering results to searches. Rewriting Wikipedia is part of the work of building the necessary intellectual infrastructure for access/findability/context.
For Ernesto's questions, how do the relate to individual research? Do folks feel that they have support for their personal work through institutional repositories, subject based digital repositories, collaboration with their institutions, collaboration with academic groups, etc.? For instance, for folks on this list with digital projects, are the projects well listed in Google (or any major search system) based on terms that you would expect and want people to use? Are the digital projects also well listed in library systems like WorldCat.org, Australia's Trove (which pulls records from many digital repositories, http://trove.nla.gov.au/), NINES, etc.? If not, is it a question of time/labor alone (where collaboration with libraries and others may help) or what are the concerns and questions?
I've had good success working with people towards big concerns on strategies and processes to preserve and ensure access (findability, etc.) by building from immediate, familiar needs as with individual digital projects and research, and supporting individual research is part of the process for content in addition to supporting high level strategies.
Ernesto, thanks for these great thoughts and questions! I'm very interested in other responses, perspectives, and ideas on this!
Laurie
From: globaloutlookdh-l [mailto:globaloutlookdh-l-bounces@uleth.ca] On Behalf Of Ernesto Priego Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 5:24 AM To: A list for participants in the ADHO DH Global Outlook Community Subject: Re: [globaloutlookDH-l] Visibility of Research: What can DH do to help?
Apologies, one of my questions above was truncated. It meant to say:
Is the development of technologies and strategies to enhance the discoverability, accessibility, sustainability, preservation etc. of [particularly social sciences, arts and humanities] research part of the work the global digital humanities should be doing? Cheers.
Dr Ernesto Priego Lecturer in Library Science #citylis City University London
MediaCommons' THE NEW EVERYDAY is happy to announce the publication of a cluster on THE MULTIMODALITY OF COMICS IN EVERYDAY LIFE, curated by Ernesto Priego of City University London and David N. Wright of Douglas College. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/tne/cluster/multimodality-comics-eve... http://epriego.wordpress.com/ @ernestopriegohttps://twitter.com/ernestopriego Editor-in-Chief, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship http://www.comicsgrid.com/ Subscribe to the Comics Grid Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/iOYAj
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 10:21 AM, Ernesto Priego <efpriego@gmail.commailto:efpriego@gmail.com> wrote: Hello everyone, This Saturday I am flying to Kenya to participate in the Workshop on the Discoverability of African Scholarship Online organised by the OpenUCT Initiative and Carnegie Corporation (some info at http://openuct.uct.ac.za/events/workshop-discoverability-african-scholarship... ). As the workshop's documentation states it, The requirement by funders and research agencies that open access outputs not only be online, but also that content be curated and archived in repositories and databases with associated metadata in line with international best practice, additionally means that the content generated by the North will generally be shared in a fashion that facilitates optimal findability and interoperability.
Visibility and interoperability with other online platforms and databases is crucial not only in terms of boosting access to knowledge, but also in facilitating new forms of digital and inter-disciplinary research that are made possible through text mining and federated search functionality. The growing divide in content visibility and curation is therefore also highly undesirable in that it threatens to decrease the scope of the global knowledge corpus by virtue of the fact that knowledge from certain parts of the world will be less likely to have been curated and shared in line with the international protocols that facilitate content exchange and digital scholarship.
[...]
There is evidence that individual African scholars have taken the initiative of establishing their own websites and promoting academic output online through personal or disciplinary-oriented channels. Undertaking research, digitising the outputs (or even having them 'born digital' in original electronic form) and putting these online is however not sufficient. Some strategy is required in order to approach the exercise in an efficient and cost effective manner so that research can be visible, discoverable and communicated in order to create and maximise value. These activities require specific competencies and activities which have only come into being in recent years; while rapidly emerging globally, they are generally in short supply or still largely unknown amongst many African academics, and to some extent within institutions as a whole.
I am particularly keen in having a conversation about the importance of networks when it comes to creating a critical mass if not a culture of research sharing. The evolution of free/affordable technologies that enhance access, dissemination, archiving/harvesting, citation and measurement of research has been fast in many developed economies, but their adoption in other countries and cultures is not without challenges (and opportunities) of all kinds. The burden of the individual researcher to enhance the visibility of his/her individual research can be a full time occupation for which a particularly privileged setting/working/social conditions and technical expertise is often needed. I am sharing with you these thoughts because I am interested in what role the digital humanities can play in this context. Are DH research projects/outputs merely a subgroup of all research subject to online discoverability, or are the digital humanities a potentially key player in the development of strategies to make research visible and accessible online? Is the development of technologies and strategies to enhance the discoverability, accessibility, sustainability, preservation etc. of [particularly social sciences, arts and humanities] research? I believe that the "global" digital humanities face some of the same challenges as African reseachers in terms of getting the work to be seen, cited, recognised, and in terms of being able to create international networks, access funding and other research development opportunities, etc. Any thoughts from you will be incredibly appreciated. Thanks in advance! All the best, Ernesto
Dr Ernesto Priego Lecturer in Library Science #citylis City University London
MediaCommons' THE NEW EVERYDAY is happy to announce the publication of a cluster on THE MULTIMODALITY OF COMICS IN EVERYDAY LIFE, curated by Ernesto Priego of City University London and David N. Wright of Douglas College. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/tne/cluster/multimodality-comics-eve... http://epriego.wordpress.com/ @ernestopriegohttps://twitter.com/ernestopriego Editor-in-Chief, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship http://www.comicsgrid.com/ Subscribe to the Comics Grid Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/iOYAj
Thank you Laurie for you reply, which I read before leaving to Nairobi and I found really useful.
I was disappointed not to hear from more of you in the list but I understand we are all to busy with our own things... such is the life of the 21st century academic...
In case anyone is interested though I shared a fileset with the resources presented and produced during the workshop in Nariboi. It's up with a CC-BY license on figshare:
http://figshare.com/articles/_scholarAfrica_Workshop_Resources_Fileset/96011...
If you find any of that remotely interesting please remember sharing it can go a long way.
Hope everyone is doing well.
Best regards
Ernesto
*Dr Ernesto Priego*Lecturer in Library Science #citylis City University London Editor-in-Chief, *The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship * http://www.comicsgrid.com/ http://epriego.wordpress.com/ @ernestopriegohttps://twitter.com/ernestopriego
Taking Comics Seriously: http://www.city.ac.uk/news/2014/mar/taking-comics-seriously
THE MULTIMODALITY OF COMICS IN EVERYDAY LIFE, curated by Ernesto Priego of City University London and David N. Wright of Douglas College. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/tne/cluster/multimodality-comics-eve...
Subscribe to the Comics Grid Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/iOYAj
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Taylor,Laurie Nancy Francesca < laurien@ufl.edu> wrote:
My answer is an emphatic yes for both questions:
· Are the digital humanities a potentially key player in the development of strategies to make research visible and accessible online?
· Is the development of technologies and strategies to enhance the discoverability, accessibility, sustainability, preservation etc. of [particularly social sciences, arts and humanities] research part of the work the global digital humanities should be doing?
GO::DH's work on Rewriting Wikipedia is huge for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) because of how search engines use Wikipedia for rating and delivering results to searches. Rewriting Wikipedia is part of the work of building the necessary intellectual infrastructure for access/findability/context.
For Ernesto's questions, how do the relate to individual research? Do folks feel that they have support for their personal work through institutional repositories, subject based digital repositories, collaboration with their institutions, collaboration with academic groups, etc.? For instance, for folks on this list with digital projects, are the projects well listed in Google (or any major search system) based on terms that you would expect and want people to use? Are the digital projects also well listed in library systems like WorldCat.org, Australia's Trove (which pulls records from many digital repositories, http://trove.nla.gov.au/), NINES, etc.? If not, is it a question of time/labor alone (where collaboration with libraries and others may help) or what are the concerns and questions?
I've had good success working with people towards big concerns on strategies and processes to preserve and ensure access (findability, etc.) by building from immediate, familiar needs as with individual digital projects and research, and supporting individual research is part of the process for content in addition to supporting high level strategies.
Ernesto, thanks for these great thoughts and questions! I'm very interested in other responses, perspectives, and ideas on this!
Laurie
*From:* globaloutlookdh-l [mailto:globaloutlookdh-l-bounces@uleth.ca] *On Behalf Of *Ernesto Priego *Sent:* Thursday, March 06, 2014 5:24 AM *To:* A list for participants in the ADHO DH Global Outlook Community *Subject:* Re: [globaloutlookDH-l] Visibility of Research: What can DH do to help?
Apologies, one of my questions above was truncated. It meant to say:
Is the development of technologies and strategies to enhance the discoverability, accessibility, sustainability, preservation etc. of [particularly social sciences, arts and humanities] research part of the work the global digital humanities should be doing?
Cheers.
- Dr Ernesto Priego *Lecturer in Library Science
#citylis City University London
MediaCommons' THE NEW EVERYDAY is happy to announce the publication of a cluster on THE MULTIMODALITY OF COMICS IN EVERYDAY LIFE, curated by Ernesto Priego of City University London and David N. Wright of Douglas College.
http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/tne/cluster/multimodality-comics-eve...
http://epriego.wordpress.com/ @ernestopriegohttps://twitter.com/ernestopriego
Editor-in-Chief, *The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship * http://www.comicsgrid.com/
Subscribe to the Comics Grid Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/iOYAj
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 10:21 AM, Ernesto Priego efpriego@gmail.com wrote:
Hello everyone,
This Saturday I am flying to Kenya to participate in the Workshop on the Discoverability of African Scholarship Online organised by the OpenUCT Initiative and Carnegie Corporation (some info at http://openuct.uct.ac.za/events/workshop-discoverability-african-scholarship...).
As the workshop's documentation states it,
The requirement by funders and research agencies that open access outputs not only be online, but also that content be curated and archived in repositories and databases with associated metadata in line with international best practice, additionally means that the content generated by the North will generally be shared in a fashion that facilitates optimal findability and interoperability.
Visibility and interoperability with other online platforms and databases is crucial not only in terms of boosting access to knowledge, but also in facilitating new forms of digital and inter-disciplinary research that are made possible through text mining and federated search functionality. The growing divide in content visibility and curation is therefore also highly undesirable in that it threatens to decrease the scope of the global knowledge corpus by virtue of the fact that knowledge from certain parts of the world will be less likely to have been curated and shared in line with the international protocols that facilitate content exchange and digital scholarship.
[...]
There is evidence that individual African scholars have taken the initiative of establishing their own websites and promoting academic output online through personal or disciplinary-oriented channels. Undertaking research, digitising the outputs (or even having them 'born digital' in original electronic form) and putting these online is however not sufficient. Some strategy is required in order to approach the exercise in an efficient and cost effective manner so that research can be visible, discoverable and communicated in order to create and maximise value. These activities require specific competencies and activities which have only come into being in recent years; while rapidly emerging globally, they are generally in short supply or still largely unknown amongst many African academics, and to some extent within institutions as a whole.
I am particularly keen in having a conversation about the importance of networks when it comes to creating a critical mass if not a culture of research sharing. The evolution of free/affordable technologies that enhance access, dissemination, archiving/harvesting, citation and measurement of research has been fast in many developed economies, but their adoption in other countries and cultures is not without challenges (and opportunities) of all kinds. The burden of the individual researcher to enhance the visibility of his/her individual research can be a full time occupation for which a particularly privileged setting/working/social conditions and technical expertise is often needed.
I am sharing with you these thoughts because I am interested in what role the digital humanities can play in this context. Are DH research projects/outputs merely a subgroup of all research subject to online discoverability, or are the digital humanities a potentially key player in the development of strategies to make research visible and accessible online? Is the development of technologies and strategies to enhance the discoverability, accessibility, sustainability, preservation etc. of [particularly social sciences, arts and humanities] research?
I believe that the "global" digital humanities face some of the same challenges as African reseachers in terms of getting the work to be seen, cited, recognised, and in terms of being able to create international networks, access funding and other research development opportunities, etc.
Any thoughts from you will be incredibly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
All the best,
Ernesto
- Dr Ernesto Priego *Lecturer in Library Science
#citylis City University London
MediaCommons' THE NEW EVERYDAY is happy to announce the publication of a cluster on THE MULTIMODALITY OF COMICS IN EVERYDAY LIFE, curated by Ernesto Priego of City University London and David N. Wright of Douglas College.
http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/tne/cluster/multimodality-comics-eve...
http://epriego.wordpress.com/ @ernestopriegohttps://twitter.com/ernestopriego
Editor-in-Chief, *The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship * http://www.comicsgrid.com/
Subscribe to the Comics Grid Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/iOYAj
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Networking any new friends with us sounds like a good solid first step!
Safe travels, Ernesto.
a.
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Ernesto Priego efpriego@gmail.com wrote:
Hello everyone,
This Saturday I am flying to Kenya to participate in the Workshop on the Discoverability of African Scholarship Online organised by the OpenUCT Initiative and Carnegie Corporation (some info at http://openuct.uct.ac.za/events/workshop-discoverability-african-scholarship...).
As the workshop's documentation states it,
The requirement by funders and research agencies that open access outputs
not only be online, but also that content be curated and archived in repositories and databases with associated metadata in line with international best practice, additionally means that the content generated by the North will generally be shared in a fashion that facilitates optimal findability and interoperability.
Visibility and interoperability with other online platforms and databases is crucial not only in terms of boosting access to knowledge, but also in facilitating new forms of digital and inter-disciplinary research that are made possible through text mining and federated search functionality. The growing divide in content visibility and curation is therefore also highly undesirable in that it threatens to decrease the scope of the global knowledge corpus by virtue of the fact that knowledge from certain parts of the world will be less likely to have been curated and shared in line with the international protocols that facilitate content exchange and digital scholarship.
[...]
There is evidence that individual African scholars have taken the
initiative of establishing their own websites and promoting academic output online through personal or disciplinary-oriented channels. Undertaking research, digitising the outputs (or even having them 'born digital' in original electronic form) and putting these online is however not sufficient. Some strategy is required in order to approach the exercise in an efficient and cost effective manner so that research can be visible, discoverable and communicated in order to create and maximise value. These activities require specific competencies and activities which have only come into being in recent years; while rapidly emerging globally, they are generally in short supply or still largely unknown amongst many African academics, and to some extent within institutions as a whole.
I am particularly keen in having a conversation about the importance of networks when it comes to creating a critical mass if not a culture of research sharing. The evolution of free/affordable technologies that enhance access, dissemination, archiving/harvesting, citation and measurement of research has been fast in many developed economies, but their adoption in other countries and cultures is not without challenges (and opportunities) of all kinds. The burden of the individual researcher to enhance the visibility of his/her individual research can be a full time occupation for which a particularly privileged setting/working/social conditions and technical expertise is often needed.
I am sharing with you these thoughts because I am interested in what role the digital humanities can play in this context. Are DH research projects/outputs merely a subgroup of all research subject to online discoverability, or are the digital humanities a potentially key player in the development of strategies to make research visible and accessible online? Is the development of technologies and strategies to enhance the discoverability, accessibility, sustainability, preservation etc. of [particularly social sciences, arts and humanities] research?
I believe that the "global" digital humanities face some of the same challenges as African reseachers in terms of getting the work to be seen, cited, recognised, and in terms of being able to create international networks, access funding and other research development opportunities, etc.
Any thoughts from you will be incredibly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
All the best,
Ernesto
*Dr Ernesto Priego *Lecturer in Library Science #citylis City University London
MediaCommons' THE NEW EVERYDAY is happy to announce the publication of a cluster on THE MULTIMODALITY OF COMICS IN EVERYDAY LIFE, curated by Ernesto Priego of City University London and David N. Wright of Douglas College.
http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/tne/cluster/multimodality-comics-eve...
http://epriego.wordpress.com/ @ernestopriegohttps://twitter.com/ernestopriego Editor-in-Chief, *The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship * http://www.comicsgrid.com/ Subscribe to the Comics Grid Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/iOYAj
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Hola Ernesto,
Hope you manage to read this in time.
You mention:
"I am sharing with you these thoughts because I am interested in what role the digital humanities can play in this context. Are DH research projects/outputs merely a subgroup of all research subject to online discoverability, or are the digital humanities a potentially key player in the development of strategies to make research visible and accessible online? Is the development of technologies and strategies to enhance the discoverability, accessibility, sustainability, preservation etc. of [particularly social sciences, arts and humanities] research?"
From experience here in Mexico, and Latin America in general, I think that it is more likely that formal digital publishing outputs (in particular research articles) are more likely to be of interest than DH projects/outputs that tend to takes shapes and forms that decision makers and evaluators are not sure how to deal with. In this sense DH projects/outputs can be key players in challenging notions of what academic research production can look like, but 'authorities' (can't find a better word but I mean the people that approve a project and give you funding or support) tend to like things that they recognize. So DH project/outputs have a double challenge, they are digital and they are not familiar. So online discoverability projects tend to focus on journal articles above all. Key Latin American projects such as Redalyc, Scielo, Latindex to name a few are all based on journal publishing. In the past few years there has been an increasing interest in the publication of ebooks, which are more related to the Humanities, but again more in the formal publishing line. DH projects/outputs still tend to be individual initiatives with little or no institutional back up and placed on personal web space or on the institutional website but in an informal manner.
Hope this is useful and looking forward to hearing your report from Kenya.
Best,
Isabel
---------- Dra. Isabel Galina Russell Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) igalina@unam.mx @igalina ________________________________ De: globaloutlookdh-l globaloutlookdh-l-bounces@uleth.ca en nombre de Alex Gil colibri.alex@gmail.com Enviado: martes, 18 de marzo de 2014 06:33 a.m. Para: A list for participants in the ADHO DH Global Outlook Community Asunto: Re: [globaloutlookDH-l] Visibility of Research: What can DH do to help?
Networking any new friends with us sounds like a good solid first step!
Safe travels, Ernesto.
a.
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Ernesto Priego <efpriego@gmail.commailto:efpriego@gmail.com> wrote: Hello everyone,
This Saturday I am flying to Kenya to participate in the Workshop on the Discoverability of African Scholarship Online organised by the OpenUCT Initiative and Carnegie Corporation (some info at http://openuct.uct.ac.za/events/workshop-discoverability-african-scholarship... ).
As the workshop's documentation states it,
The requirement by funders and research agencies that open access outputs not only be online, but also that content be curated and archived in repositories and databases with associated metadata in line with international best practice, additionally means that the content generated by the North will generally be shared in a fashion that facilitates optimal findability and interoperability.
Visibility and interoperability with other online platforms and databases is crucial not only in terms of boosting access to knowledge, but also in facilitating new forms of digital and inter-disciplinary research that are made possible through text mining and federated search functionality. The growing divide in content visibility and curation is therefore also highly undesirable in that it threatens to decrease the scope of the global knowledge corpus by virtue of the fact that knowledge from certain parts of the world will be less likely to have been curated and shared in line with the international protocols that facilitate content exchange and digital scholarship.
[...]
There is evidence that individual African scholars have taken the initiative of establishing their own websites and promoting academic output online through personal or disciplinary-oriented channels. Undertaking research, digitising the outputs (or even having them 'born digital' in original electronic form) and putting these online is however not sufficient. Some strategy is required in order to approach the exercise in an efficient and cost effective manner so that research can be visible, discoverable and communicated in order to create and maximise value. These activities require specific competencies and activities which have only come into being in recent years; while rapidly emerging globally, they are generally in short supply or still largely unknown amongst many African academics, and to some extent within institutions as a whole.
I am particularly keen in having a conversation about the importance of networks when it comes to creating a critical mass if not a culture of research sharing. The evolution of free/affordable technologies that enhance access, dissemination, archiving/harvesting, citation and measurement of research has been fast in many developed economies, but their adoption in other countries and cultures is not without challenges (and opportunities) of all kinds. The burden of the individual researcher to enhance the visibility of his/her individual research can be a full time occupation for which a particularly privileged setting/working/social conditions and technical expertise is often needed.
I am sharing with you these thoughts because I am interested in what role the digital humanities can play in this context. Are DH research projects/outputs merely a subgroup of all research subject to online discoverability, or are the digital humanities a potentially key player in the development of strategies to make research visible and accessible online? Is the development of technologies and strategies to enhance the discoverability, accessibility, sustainability, preservation etc. of [particularly social sciences, arts and humanities] research?
I believe that the "global" digital humanities face some of the same challenges as African reseachers in terms of getting the work to be seen, cited, recognised, and in terms of being able to create international networks, access funding and other research development opportunities, etc.
Any thoughts from you will be incredibly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
All the best,
Ernesto
Dr Ernesto Priego Lecturer in Library Science #citylis City University London
MediaCommons' THE NEW EVERYDAY is happy to announce the publication of a cluster on THE MULTIMODALITY OF COMICS IN EVERYDAY LIFE, curated by Ernesto Priego of City University London and David N. Wright of Douglas College. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/tne/cluster/multimodality-comics-eve...
http://epriego.wordpress.com/ @ernestopriegohttps://twitter.com/ernestopriego Editor-in-Chief, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship http://www.comicsgrid.com/ Subscribe to the Comics Grid Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/iOYAj
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Thank you Isabel and Alex. The workshop was last week. I came back from Nairobi on Wednesday night. The materials I shared are outcomes from the workshop.
Best
Sent from my mobile On Mar 18, 2014 7:37 PM, "igalina" igalina@unam.mx wrote:
Hola Ernesto,
Hope you manage to read this in time.
You mention:
"I am sharing with you these thoughts because I am interested in what role the digital humanities can play in this context. Are DH research projects/outputs merely a subgroup of all research subject to online discoverability, or are the digital humanities a potentially key player in the development of strategies to make research visible and accessible online? Is the development of technologies and strategies to enhance the discoverability, accessibility, sustainability, preservation etc. of [particularly social sciences, arts and humanities] research?"
From experience here in Mexico, and Latin America in general, I think that it is more likely that formal digital publishing outputs (in particular research articles) are more likely to be of interest than DH projects/outputs that tend to takes shapes and forms that decision makers and evaluators are not sure how to deal with. In this sense DH projects/outputs can be key players in challenging notions of what academic research production can look like, but 'authorities' (can't find a better word but I mean the people that approve a project and give you funding or support) tend to like things that they recognize. So DH project/outputs have a double challenge, they are digital and they are not familiar. So online discoverability projects tend to focus on journal articles above all. Key Latin American projects such as Redalyc, Scielo, Latindex to name a few are all based on journal publishing. In the past few years there has been an increasing interest in the publication of ebooks, which are more related to the Humanities, but again more in the formal publishing line. DH projects/outputs still tend to be individual initiatives with little or no institutional back up and placed on personal web space or on the institutional website but in an informal manner.
Hope this is useful and looking forward to hearing your report from Kenya.
Best,
Isabel
Dra. Isabel Galina Russell Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) igalina@unam.mx @igalina
*De:* globaloutlookdh-l globaloutlookdh-l-bounces@uleth.ca en nombre de Alex Gil colibri.alex@gmail.com *Enviado:* martes, 18 de marzo de 2014 06:33 a.m. *Para:* A list for participants in the ADHO DH Global Outlook Community *Asunto:* Re: [globaloutlookDH-l] Visibility of Research: What can DH do to help?
Networking any new friends with us sounds like a good solid first step!
Safe travels, Ernesto.
a.
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Ernesto Priego efpriego@gmail.com wrote:
Hello everyone,
This Saturday I am flying to Kenya to participate in the Workshop on the Discoverability of African Scholarship Online organised by the OpenUCT Initiative and Carnegie Corporation (some info at http://openuct.uct.ac.za/events/workshop-discoverability-african-scholarship...).
As the workshop's documentation states it,
The requirement by funders and research agencies that open access
outputs not only be online, but also that content be curated and archived in repositories and databases with associated metadata in line with international best practice, additionally means that the content generated by the North will generally be shared in a fashion that facilitates optimal findability and interoperability.
Visibility and interoperability with other online platforms and databases is crucial not only in terms of boosting access to knowledge, but also in facilitating new forms of digital and inter-disciplinary research that are made possible through text mining and federated search functionality. The growing divide in content visibility and curation is therefore also highly undesirable in that it threatens to decrease the scope of the global knowledge corpus by virtue of the fact that knowledge from certain parts of the world will be less likely to have been curated and shared in line with the international protocols that facilitate content exchange and digital scholarship.
[...]
There is evidence that individual African scholars have taken the
initiative of establishing their own websites and promoting academic output online through personal or disciplinary-oriented channels. Undertaking research, digitising the outputs (or even having them 'born digital' in original electronic form) and putting these online is however not sufficient. Some strategy is required in order to approach the exercise in an efficient and cost effective manner so that research can be visible, discoverable and communicated in order to create and maximise value. These activities require specific competencies and activities which have only come into being in recent years; while rapidly emerging globally, they are generally in short supply or still largely unknown amongst many African academics, and to some extent within institutions as a whole.
I am particularly keen in having a conversation about the importance of networks when it comes to creating a critical mass if not a culture of research sharing. The evolution of free/affordable technologies that enhance access, dissemination, archiving/harvesting, citation and measurement of research has been fast in many developed economies, but their adoption in other countries and cultures is not without challenges (and opportunities) of all kinds. The burden of the individual researcher to enhance the visibility of his/her individual research can be a full time occupation for which a particularly privileged setting/working/social conditions and technical expertise is often needed.
I am sharing with you these thoughts because I am interested in what role the digital humanities can play in this context. Are DH research projects/outputs merely a subgroup of all research subject to online discoverability, or are the digital humanities a potentially key player in the development of strategies to make research visible and accessible online? Is the development of technologies and strategies to enhance the discoverability, accessibility, sustainability, preservation etc. of [particularly social sciences, arts and humanities] research?
I believe that the "global" digital humanities face some of the same challenges as African reseachers in terms of getting the work to be seen, cited, recognised, and in terms of being able to create international networks, access funding and other research development opportunities, etc.
Any thoughts from you will be incredibly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
All the best,
Ernesto
- Dr Ernesto Priego *Lecturer in Library Science
#citylis City University London
MediaCommons' THE NEW EVERYDAY is happy to announce the publication of a cluster on THE MULTIMODALITY OF COMICS IN EVERYDAY LIFE, curated by Ernesto Priego of City University London and David N. Wright of Douglas College.
http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/tne/cluster/multimodality-comics-eve...
http://epriego.wordpress.com/ @ernestopriegohttps://twitter.com/ernestopriego Editor-in-Chief, *The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship * http://www.comicsgrid.com/ Subscribe to the Comics Grid Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/iOYAj
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Dear Ernesto, and all,
Thank you for sharing the material which was very interesting to look through. I am sorry I did not reply before the workshop; it was due to heavy workload and not lack of interest, as you also suggested.
I wonder how we as an international group could help establishing better cooperation between DH researchers, students, and others in various African countries without creating another external system talking about Africa? I think a good starting point would be an overview over DH on the continent. Does anyone know if any such overviews exist? If not: any ideas for how to make one?
A next step would then be to invite people to take part in online fora such as this one. But it would also be good if we were able to set up or take part in one or more physical meetings -- talking to people face to face is still important.
EADH (the European Association for Digital Humanities) supported such activities in Japan in several years before the establishment of JADH (the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities). We may be able to provide some support for similar work in Africa as well. It would have to happen in close cooperation with not only GO:DH as a group, but also with groups and individuals in Africa with a strong interest in the development in either national, regional, or a continental organisation of some sort.
Any ideas for how to proceed? Any members of this list -- African or from elsewhere -- who would be interested in discussing this further?
Similar discussion should and already do take part in other parts of the world of course -- the need for better cooperation is not restricted to Africa. Also: if what I suggest here is already on the way, please apologise for my lack of knowledge!
All the best,
Øyvind
On 19. mars 2014, at 09:16, Ernesto Priego wrote:
Thank you Isabel and Alex. The workshop was last week. I came back from Nairobi on Wednesday night. The materials I shared are outcomes from the workshop.
Best
Sent from my mobile
On Mar 18, 2014 7:37 PM, "igalina" igalina@unam.mx wrote: Hola Ernesto, Hope you manage to read this in time. You mention: "I am sharing with you these thoughts because I am interested in what role the digital humanities can play in this context. Are DH research projects/outputs merely a subgroup of all research subject to online discoverability, or are the digital humanities a potentially key player in the development of strategies to make research visible and accessible online? Is the development of technologies and strategies to enhance the discoverability, accessibility, sustainability, preservation etc. of [particularly social sciences, arts and humanities] research?"
From experience here in Mexico, and Latin America in general, I think that it is more likely that formal digital publishing outputs (in particular research articles) are more likely to be of interest than DH projects/outputs that tend to takes shapes and forms that decision makers and evaluators are not sure how to deal with. In this sense DH projects/outputs can be key players in challenging notions of what academic research production can look like, but 'authorities' (can't find a better word but I mean the people that approve a project and give you funding or support) tend to like things that they recognize. So DH project/outputs have a double challenge, they are digital and they are not familiar. So online discoverability projects tend to focus on journal articles above all. Key Latin American projects such as Redalyc, Scielo, Latindex to name a few are all based on journal publishing. In the past few years there has been an increasing interest in the publication of ebooks, which are more related to the Humanities, but again more in the formal publishing line. DH projects/outputs still tend to be individual initiatives with little or no institutional back up and placed on personal web space or on the institutional website but in an informal manner.
Hope this is useful and looking forward to hearing your report from Kenya. Best, Isabel
Dra. Isabel Galina Russell Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) igalina@unam.mx @igalina De: globaloutlookdh-l globaloutlookdh-l-bounces@uleth.ca en nombre de Alex Gil colibri.alex@gmail.com Enviado: martes, 18 de marzo de 2014 06:33 a.m. Para: A list for participants in the ADHO DH Global Outlook Community Asunto: Re: [globaloutlookDH-l] Visibility of Research: What can DH do to help?
Networking any new friends with us sounds like a good solid first step!
Safe travels, Ernesto.
a.
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Ernesto Priego efpriego@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone,
This Saturday I am flying to Kenya to participate in the Workshop on the Discoverability of African Scholarship Online organised by the OpenUCT Initiative and Carnegie Corporation (some info at http://openuct.uct.ac.za/events/workshop-discoverability-african-scholarship... ).
As the workshop's documentation states it,
The requirement by funders and research agencies that open access outputs not only be online, but also that content be curated and archived in repositories and databases with associated metadata in line with international best practice, additionally means that the content generated by the North will generally be shared in a fashion that facilitates optimal findability and interoperability.
Visibility and interoperability with other online platforms and databases is crucial not only in terms of boosting access to knowledge, but also in facilitating new forms of digital and inter-disciplinary research that are made possible through text mining and federated search functionality. The growing divide in content visibility and curation is therefore also highly undesirable in that it threatens to decrease the scope of the global knowledge corpus by virtue of the fact that knowledge from certain parts of the world will be less likely to have been curated and shared in line with the international protocols that facilitate content exchange and digital scholarship.
[...]
There is evidence that individual African scholars have taken the initiative of establishing their own websites and promoting academic output online through personal or disciplinary-oriented channels. Undertaking research, digitising the outputs (or even having them ‘born digital’ in original electronic form) and putting these online is however not sufficient. Some strategy is required in order to approach the exercise in an efficient and cost effective manner so that research can be visible, discoverable and communicated in order to create and maximise value. These activities require specific competencies and activities which have only come into being in recent years; while rapidly emerging globally, they are generally in short supply or still largely unknown amongst many African academics, and to some extent within institutions as a whole.
I am particularly keen in having a conversation about the importance of networks when it comes to creating a critical mass if not a culture of research sharing. The evolution of free/affordable technologies that enhance access, dissemination, archiving/harvesting, citation and measurement of research has been fast in many developed economies, but their adoption in other countries and cultures is not without challenges (and opportunities) of all kinds. The burden of the individual researcher to enhance the visibility of his/her individual research can be a full time occupation for which a particularly privileged setting/working/social conditions and technical expertise is often needed.
I am sharing with you these thoughts because I am interested in what role the digital humanities can play in this context. Are DH research projects/outputs merely a subgroup of all research subject to online discoverability, or are the digital humanities a potentially key player in the development of strategies to make research visible and accessible online? Is the development of technologies and strategies to enhance the discoverability, accessibility, sustainability, preservation etc. of [particularly social sciences, arts and humanities] research?
I believe that the "global" digital humanities face some of the same challenges as African reseachers in terms of getting the work to be seen, cited, recognised, and in terms of being able to create international networks, access funding and other research development opportunities, etc.
Any thoughts from you will be incredibly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
All the best,
Ernesto
Dr Ernesto Priego Lecturer in Library Science #citylis City University London
MediaCommons' THE NEW EVERYDAY is happy to announce the publication of a cluster on THE MULTIMODALITY OF COMICS IN EVERYDAY LIFE, curated by Ernesto Priego of City University London and David N. Wright of Douglas College. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/tne/cluster/multimodality-comics-eve...
http://epriego.wordpress.com/ @ernestopriego Editor-in-Chief, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship http://www.comicsgrid.com/ Subscribe to the Comics Grid Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/iOYAj
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Thank you Ernesto for the materials. I finally had an opportunity to read them.
I like Øyvind's suggestion. I volunteer to help with such an initiative. We have decent places to start. We have several suggestions of projects on the AroundDH listhttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmgLcm5jfVhSdGlPNm1WQ0hRYjFTU1E5QnBDdlZMQWc&usp=drive_web#gid=12(added mostly by Amanda Visconti); we have the work of Titilola Babalola who won our essay contest last year; South Africa has seen a burst of activity, with E. Vanhoutte visiting lately and Leon de Kock's advocacy work.
I myself am in a partnership with Kwara State University in Nigeria for a project on African Mother Tongues, which is just in its earliest stages, and will keep the community abreast.
In any case, count on me for the work ahead.
A.
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 7:10 AM, Øyvind Eide oyvind.eide@iln.uio.no wrote:
Dear Ernesto, and all,
Thank you for sharing the material which was very interesting to look through. I am sorry I did not reply before the workshop; it was due to heavy workload and not lack of interest, as you also suggested.
I wonder how we as an international group could help establishing better cooperation between DH researchers, students, and others in various African countries without creating another external system talking about Africa? I think a good starting point would be an overview over DH on the continent. Does anyone know if any such overviews exist? If not: any ideas for how to make one?
A next step would then be to invite people to take part in online fora such as this one. But it would also be good if we were able to set up or take part in one or more physical meetings -- talking to people face to face is still important.
EADH (the European Association for Digital Humanities) supported such activities in Japan in several years before the establishment of JADH (the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities). We may be able to provide some support for similar work in Africa as well. It would have to happen in close cooperation with not only GO:DH as a group, but also with groups and individuals in Africa with a strong interest in the development in either national, regional, or a continental organisation of some sort.
Any ideas for how to proceed? Any members of this list -- African or from elsewhere -- who would be interested in discussing this further?
Similar discussion should and already do take part in other parts of the world of course -- the need for better cooperation is not restricted to Africa. Also: if what I suggest here is already on the way, please apologise for my lack of knowledge!
All the best,
Øyvind
On 19. mars 2014, at 09:16, Ernesto Priego wrote:
Thank you Isabel and Alex. The workshop was last week. I came back from
Nairobi on Wednesday night. The materials I shared are outcomes from the workshop.
Best
Sent from my mobile
On Mar 18, 2014 7:37 PM, "igalina" igalina@unam.mx wrote: Hola Ernesto, Hope you manage to read this in time. You mention: "I am sharing with you these thoughts because I am interested in what
role the digital humanities can play in this context. Are DH research projects/outputs merely a subgroup of all research subject to online discoverability, or are the digital humanities a potentially key player in the development of strategies to make research visible and accessible online? Is the development of technologies and strategies to enhance the discoverability, accessibility, sustainability, preservation etc. of [particularly social sciences, arts and humanities] research?"
From experience here in Mexico, and Latin America in general, I think
that it is more likely that formal digital publishing outputs (in particular research articles) are more likely to be of interest than DH projects/outputs that tend to takes shapes and forms that decision makers and evaluators are not sure how to deal with. In this sense DH projects/outputs can be key players in challenging notions of what academic research production can look like, but 'authorities' (can't find a better word but I mean the people that approve a project and give you funding or support) tend to like things that they recognize. So DH project/outputs have a double challenge, they are digital and they are not familiar. So online discoverability projects tend to focus on journal articles above all. Key Latin American projects such as Redalyc, Scielo, Latindex to name a few are all based on journal publishing. In the past few years there has been an increasing interest in the publication of ebooks, which are more related to the Humanities, but again more in the formal publishing line. DH projects/outputs still tend to be individual initiatives with little or no institutional back up and placed on personal web space or on the institutional website but in an informal manner.
Hope this is useful and looking forward to hearing your report from
Kenya.
Best, Isabel
Dra. Isabel Galina Russell Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) igalina@unam.mx @igalina De: globaloutlookdh-l globaloutlookdh-l-bounces@uleth.ca en nombre de
Alex Gil colibri.alex@gmail.com
Enviado: martes, 18 de marzo de 2014 06:33 a.m. Para: A list for participants in the ADHO DH Global Outlook Community Asunto: Re: [globaloutlookDH-l] Visibility of Research: What can DH do
to help?
Networking any new friends with us sounds like a good solid first step!
Safe travels, Ernesto.
a.
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Ernesto Priego efpriego@gmail.com
wrote:
Hello everyone,
This Saturday I am flying to Kenya to participate in the Workshop on the
Discoverability of African Scholarship Online organised by the OpenUCT Initiative and Carnegie Corporation (some info at http://openuct.uct.ac.za/events/workshop-discoverability-african-scholarship...).
As the workshop's documentation states it,
The requirement by funders and research agencies that open access
outputs not only be online, but also that content be curated and archived in repositories and databases with associated metadata in line with international best practice, additionally means that the content generated by the North will generally be shared in a fashion that facilitates optimal findability and interoperability.
Visibility and interoperability with other online platforms and
databases is crucial not only in terms of boosting access to knowledge, but also in facilitating new forms of digital and inter-disciplinary research that are made possible through text mining and federated search functionality. The growing divide in content visibility and curation is therefore also highly undesirable in that it threatens to decrease the scope of the global knowledge corpus by virtue of the fact that knowledge from certain parts of the world will be less likely to have been curated and shared in line with the international protocols that facilitate content exchange and digital scholarship.
[...]
There is evidence that individual African scholars have taken the
initiative of establishing their own websites and promoting academic output online through personal or disciplinary-oriented channels. Undertaking research, digitising the outputs (or even having them 'born digital' in original electronic form) and putting these online is however not sufficient. Some strategy is required in order to approach the exercise in an efficient and cost effective manner so that research can be visible, discoverable and communicated in order to create and maximise value. These activities require specific competencies and activities which have only come into being in recent years; while rapidly emerging globally, they are generally in short supply or still largely unknown amongst many African academics, and to some extent within institutions as a whole.
I am particularly keen in having a conversation about the importance of
networks when it comes to creating a critical mass if not a culture of research sharing. The evolution of free/affordable technologies that enhance access, dissemination, archiving/harvesting, citation and measurement of research has been fast in many developed economies, but their adoption in other countries and cultures is not without challenges (and opportunities) of all kinds. The burden of the individual researcher to enhance the visibility of his/her individual research can be a full time occupation for which a particularly privileged setting/working/social conditions and technical expertise is often needed.
I am sharing with you these thoughts because I am interested in what
role the digital humanities can play in this context. Are DH research projects/outputs merely a subgroup of all research subject to online discoverability, or are the digital humanities a potentially key player in the development of strategies to make research visible and accessible online? Is the development of technologies and strategies to enhance the discoverability, accessibility, sustainability, preservation etc. of [particularly social sciences, arts and humanities] research?
I believe that the "global" digital humanities face some of the same
challenges as African reseachers in terms of getting the work to be seen, cited, recognised, and in terms of being able to create international networks, access funding and other research development opportunities, etc.
Any thoughts from you will be incredibly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
All the best,
Ernesto
Dr Ernesto Priego Lecturer in Library Science #citylis City University London
MediaCommons' THE NEW EVERYDAY is happy to announce the publication of a
cluster on
THE MULTIMODALITY OF COMICS IN EVERYDAY LIFE, curated by Ernesto Priego of City University London and David N. Wright
of Douglas College.
http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/tne/cluster/multimodality-comics-eve...
http://epriego.wordpress.com/ @ernestopriego Editor-in-Chief, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship
Subscribe to the Comics Grid Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/iOYAj
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Me too. I'm extremely keen on developing contacts there.
On 14-03-24 09:26 AM, Alex Gil wrote:
Thank you Ernesto for the materials. I finally had an opportunity to read them.
I like Øyvind's suggestion. I volunteer to help with such an initiative. We have decent places to start. We have several suggestions of projects on the AroundDH list https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmgLcm5jfVhSdGlPNm1WQ0hRYjFTU1E5QnBDdlZMQWc&usp=drive_web#gid=12 (added mostly by Amanda Visconti); we have the work of Titilola Babalola who won our essay contest last year; South Africa has seen a burst of activity, with E. Vanhoutte visiting lately and Leon de Kock's advocacy work.
I myself am in a partnership with Kwara State University in Nigeria for a project on African Mother Tongues, which is just in its earliest stages, and will keep the community abreast.
In any case, count on me for the work ahead.
A.
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 7:10 AM, Øyvind Eide <oyvind.eide@iln.uio.no mailto:oyvind.eide@iln.uio.no> wrote:
Dear Ernesto, and all, Thank you for sharing the material which was very interesting to look through. I am sorry I did not reply before the workshop; it was due to heavy workload and not lack of interest, as you also suggested. I wonder how we as an international group could help establishing better cooperation between DH researchers, students, and others in various African countries without creating another external system talking about Africa? I think a good starting point would be an overview over DH on the continent. Does anyone know if any such overviews exist? If not: any ideas for how to make one? A next step would then be to invite people to take part in online fora such as this one. But it would also be good if we were able to set up or take part in one or more physical meetings -- talking to people face to face is still important. EADH (the European Association for Digital Humanities) supported such activities in Japan in several years before the establishment of JADH (the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities). We may be able to provide some support for similar work in Africa as well. It would have to happen in close cooperation with not only GO:DH as a group, but also with groups and individuals in Africa with a strong interest in the development in either national, regional, or a continental organisation of some sort. Any ideas for how to proceed? Any members of this list -- African or from elsewhere -- who would be interested in discussing this further? Similar discussion should and already do take part in other parts of the world of course -- the need for better cooperation is not restricted to Africa. Also: if what I suggest here is already on the way, please apologise for my lack of knowledge! All the best, Øyvind On 19. mars 2014, at 09:16, Ernesto Priego wrote: > Thank you Isabel and Alex. The workshop was last week. I came back from Nairobi on Wednesday night. The materials I shared are outcomes from the workshop. > > Best > > Sent from my mobile > > On Mar 18, 2014 7:37 PM, "igalina" <igalina@unam.mx <mailto:igalina@unam.mx>> wrote: > Hola Ernesto, > Hope you manage to read this in time. > You mention: > "I am sharing with you these thoughts because I am interested in what role the digital humanities can play in this context. Are DH research projects/outputs merely a subgroup of all research subject to online discoverability, or are the digital humanities a potentially key player in the development of strategies to make research visible and accessible online? Is the development of technologies and strategies to enhance the discoverability, accessibility, sustainability, preservation etc. of [particularly social sciences, arts and humanities] research?" > > From experience here in Mexico, and Latin America in general, I think that it is more likely that formal digital publishing outputs (in particular research articles) are more likely to be of interest than DH projects/outputs that tend to takes shapes and forms that decision makers and evaluators are not sure how to deal with. In this sense DH projects/outputs can be key players in challenging notions of what academic research production can look like, but 'authorities' (can't find a better word but I mean the people that approve a project and give you funding or support) tend to like things that they recognize. So DH project/outputs have a double challenge, they are digital and they are not familiar. So online discoverability projects tend to focus on journal articles above all. Key Latin American projects such as Redalyc, Scielo, Latindex to name a few are all based on journal publishing. In the past few years there has been an increasing interest in the publication of ebooks, which are more related to the Humanities, but again more in the formal publishing line. DH projects/outputs still tend to be individual initiatives with little or no institutional back up and placed on personal web space or on the institutional website but in an informal manner. > > Hope this is useful and looking forward to hearing your report from Kenya. > Best, > Isabel > > > > ---------- > Dra. Isabel Galina Russell > Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas, > Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) > igalina@unam.mx <mailto:igalina@unam.mx> > @igalina > De: globaloutlookdh-l <globaloutlookdh-l-bounces@uleth.ca <mailto:globaloutlookdh-l-bounces@uleth.ca>> en nombre de Alex Gil <colibri.alex@gmail.com <mailto:colibri.alex@gmail.com>> > Enviado: martes, 18 de marzo de 2014 06:33 a.m. > Para: A list for participants in the ADHO DH Global Outlook Community > Asunto: Re: [globaloutlookDH-l] Visibility of Research: What can DH do to help? > > Networking any new friends with us sounds like a good solid first step! > > Safe travels, Ernesto. > > a. > > > On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Ernesto Priego <efpriego@gmail.com <mailto:efpriego@gmail.com>> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > This Saturday I am flying to Kenya to participate in the Workshop on the Discoverability of African Scholarship Online organised by the OpenUCT Initiative and Carnegie Corporation (some info at http://openuct.uct.ac.za/events/workshop-discoverability-african-scholarship-online ). > > As the workshop's documentation states it, > > The requirement by funders and research agencies that open access outputs not only be online, but also that content be curated and archived in repositories and databases with associated metadata in line with international best practice, additionally means that the content generated by the North will generally be shared in a fashion that facilitates optimal findability and interoperability. > > Visibility and interoperability with other online platforms and databases is crucial not only in terms of boosting access to knowledge, but also in facilitating new forms of digital and inter-disciplinary research that are made possible through text mining and federated search functionality. The growing divide in content visibility and curation is therefore also highly undesirable in that it threatens to decrease the scope of the global knowledge corpus by virtue of the fact that knowledge from certain parts of the world will be less likely to have been curated and shared in line with the international protocols that facilitate content exchange and digital scholarship. > > [...] > > There is evidence that individual African scholars have taken the initiative of establishing their own websites and promoting academic output online through personal or disciplinary-oriented channels. Undertaking research, digitising the outputs (or even having them ‘born digital’ in original electronic form) and putting these online is however not sufficient. Some strategy is required in order to approach the exercise in an efficient and cost effective manner so that research can be visible, discoverable and communicated in order to create and maximise value. These activities require specific competencies and activities which have only come into being in recent years; while rapidly emerging globally, they are generally in short supply or still largely unknown amongst many African academics, and to some extent within institutions as a whole. > > I am particularly keen in having a conversation about the importance of networks when it comes to creating a critical mass if not a culture of research sharing. The evolution of free/affordable technologies that enhance access, dissemination, archiving/harvesting, citation and measurement of research has been fast in many developed economies, but their adoption in other countries and cultures is not without challenges (and opportunities) of all kinds. The burden of the individual researcher to enhance the visibility of his/her individual research can be a full time occupation for which a particularly privileged setting/working/social conditions and technical expertise is often needed. > > I am sharing with you these thoughts because I am interested in what role the digital humanities can play in this context. Are DH research projects/outputs merely a subgroup of all research subject to online discoverability, or are the digital humanities a potentially key player in the development of strategies to make research visible and accessible online? Is the development of technologies and strategies to enhance the discoverability, accessibility, sustainability, preservation etc. of [particularly social sciences, arts and humanities] research? > > I believe that the "global" digital humanities face some of the same challenges as African reseachers in terms of getting the work to be seen, cited, recognised, and in terms of being able to create international networks, access funding and other research development opportunities, etc. > > Any thoughts from you will be incredibly appreciated. Thanks in advance! > > All the best, > > Ernesto > > > Dr Ernesto Priego > Lecturer in Library Science > #citylis City University London > > MediaCommons' THE NEW EVERYDAY is happy to announce the publication of a cluster on > THE MULTIMODALITY OF COMICS IN EVERYDAY LIFE, > curated by Ernesto Priego of City University London and David N. Wright of Douglas College. > http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/tne/cluster/multimodality-comics-everyday-life > > http://epriego.wordpress.com/ @ernestopriego > Editor-in-Chief, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship http://www.comicsgrid.com/ > Subscribe to the Comics Grid Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/iOYAj > > > > _______________________________________________ > globaloutlookdh-l mailing list > globaloutlookdh-l@uleth.ca <mailto:globaloutlookdh-l@uleth.ca> > http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/globaloutlookdh-l > > You are currently subscribed to this list in NON-digest mode. This means you receive every message as it is posted. > > If this represents too much traffic, you can also subscribe in DIGEST mode. This sends out a single email once a day containing the entire day's postings. 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Dear all, I would be very interested in initiatives on Africa.
Sometimes ago I was trying to know more about the African situation and I made a search at AJOL on "digital libraries" and found more than 300 articles mentioned ( http://www.ajol.info/index.php/index/search/google?search=digital+library&am...). This obviously is not exactly a survey on digital humanities in Africa but I thought it might give some insights in what is happening there.
Hope this helps, Giorgio
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 7:25 PM, Daniel O'Donnell daniel.odonnell@uleth.cawrote:
Me too. I'm extremely keen on developing contacts there.
On 14-03-24 09:26 AM, Alex Gil wrote:
Thank you Ernesto for the materials. I finally had an opportunity to read them.
I like Øyvind's suggestion. I volunteer to help with such an initiative. We have decent places to start. We have several suggestions of projects on the AroundDH listhttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmgLcm5jfVhSdGlPNm1WQ0hRYjFTU1E5QnBDdlZMQWc&usp=drive_web#gid=12(added mostly by Amanda Visconti); we have the work of Titilola Babalola who won our essay contest last year; South Africa has seen a burst of activity, with E. Vanhoutte visiting lately and Leon de Kock's advocacy work.
I myself am in a partnership with Kwara State University in Nigeria for a project on African Mother Tongues, which is just in its earliest stages, and will keep the community abreast.
In any case, count on me for the work ahead.
A.
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 7:10 AM, Øyvind Eide oyvind.eide@iln.uio.nowrote:
Dear Ernesto, and all,
Thank you for sharing the material which was very interesting to look through. I am sorry I did not reply before the workshop; it was due to heavy workload and not lack of interest, as you also suggested.
I wonder how we as an international group could help establishing better cooperation between DH researchers, students, and others in various African countries without creating another external system talking about Africa? I think a good starting point would be an overview over DH on the continent. Does anyone know if any such overviews exist? If not: any ideas for how to make one?
A next step would then be to invite people to take part in online fora such as this one. But it would also be good if we were able to set up or take part in one or more physical meetings -- talking to people face to face is still important.
EADH (the European Association for Digital Humanities) supported such activities in Japan in several years before the establishment of JADH (the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities). We may be able to provide some support for similar work in Africa as well. It would have to happen in close cooperation with not only GO:DH as a group, but also with groups and individuals in Africa with a strong interest in the development in either national, regional, or a continental organisation of some sort.
Any ideas for how to proceed? Any members of this list -- African or from elsewhere -- who would be interested in discussing this further?
Similar discussion should and already do take part in other parts of the world of course -- the need for better cooperation is not restricted to Africa. Also: if what I suggest here is already on the way, please apologise for my lack of knowledge!
All the best,
Øyvind
On 19. mars 2014, at 09:16, Ernesto Priego wrote:
Thank you Isabel and Alex. The workshop was last week. I came back from
Nairobi on Wednesday night. The materials I shared are outcomes from the workshop.
Best
Sent from my mobile
On Mar 18, 2014 7:37 PM, "igalina" igalina@unam.mx wrote: Hola Ernesto, Hope you manage to read this in time. You mention: "I am sharing with you these thoughts because I am interested in what
role the digital humanities can play in this context. Are DH research projects/outputs merely a subgroup of all research subject to online discoverability, or are the digital humanities a potentially key player in the development of strategies to make research visible and accessible online? Is the development of technologies and strategies to enhance the discoverability, accessibility, sustainability, preservation etc. of [particularly social sciences, arts and humanities] research?"
From experience here in Mexico, and Latin America in general, I think
that it is more likely that formal digital publishing outputs (in particular research articles) are more likely to be of interest than DH projects/outputs that tend to takes shapes and forms that decision makers and evaluators are not sure how to deal with. In this sense DH projects/outputs can be key players in challenging notions of what academic research production can look like, but 'authorities' (can't find a better word but I mean the people that approve a project and give you funding or support) tend to like things that they recognize. So DH project/outputs have a double challenge, they are digital and they are not familiar. So online discoverability projects tend to focus on journal articles above all. Key Latin American projects such as Redalyc, Scielo, Latindex to name a few are all based on journal publishing. In the past few years there has been an increasing interest in the publication of ebooks, which are more related to the Humanities, but again more in the formal publishing line. DH projects/outputs still tend to be individual initiatives with little or no institutional back up and placed on personal web space or on the institutional website but in an informal manner.
Hope this is useful and looking forward to hearing your report from
Kenya.
Best, Isabel
Dra. Isabel Galina Russell Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) igalina@unam.mx @igalina De: globaloutlookdh-l globaloutlookdh-l-bounces@uleth.ca en nombre
de Alex Gil colibri.alex@gmail.com
Enviado: martes, 18 de marzo de 2014 06:33 a.m. Para: A list for participants in the ADHO DH Global Outlook Community Asunto: Re: [globaloutlookDH-l] Visibility of Research: What can DH do
to help?
Networking any new friends with us sounds like a good solid first step!
Safe travels, Ernesto.
a.
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Ernesto Priego efpriego@gmail.com
wrote:
Hello everyone,
This Saturday I am flying to Kenya to participate in the Workshop on
the Discoverability of African Scholarship Online organised by the OpenUCT Initiative and Carnegie Corporation (some info at http://openuct.uct.ac.za/events/workshop-discoverability-african-scholarship...).
As the workshop's documentation states it,
The requirement by funders and research agencies that open access
outputs not only be online, but also that content be curated and archived in repositories and databases with associated metadata in line with international best practice, additionally means that the content generated by the North will generally be shared in a fashion that facilitates optimal findability and interoperability.
Visibility and interoperability with other online platforms and
databases is crucial not only in terms of boosting access to knowledge, but also in facilitating new forms of digital and inter-disciplinary research that are made possible through text mining and federated search functionality. The growing divide in content visibility and curation is therefore also highly undesirable in that it threatens to decrease the scope of the global knowledge corpus by virtue of the fact that knowledge from certain parts of the world will be less likely to have been curated and shared in line with the international protocols that facilitate content exchange and digital scholarship.
[...]
There is evidence that individual African scholars have taken the
initiative of establishing their own websites and promoting academic output online through personal or disciplinary-oriented channels. Undertaking research, digitising the outputs (or even having them 'born digital' in original electronic form) and putting these online is however not sufficient. Some strategy is required in order to approach the exercise in an efficient and cost effective manner so that research can be visible, discoverable and communicated in order to create and maximise value. These activities require specific competencies and activities which have only come into being in recent years; while rapidly emerging globally, they are generally in short supply or still largely unknown amongst many African academics, and to some extent within institutions as a whole.
I am particularly keen in having a conversation about the importance of
networks when it comes to creating a critical mass if not a culture of research sharing. The evolution of free/affordable technologies that enhance access, dissemination, archiving/harvesting, citation and measurement of research has been fast in many developed economies, but their adoption in other countries and cultures is not without challenges (and opportunities) of all kinds. The burden of the individual researcher to enhance the visibility of his/her individual research can be a full time occupation for which a particularly privileged setting/working/social conditions and technical expertise is often needed.
I am sharing with you these thoughts because I am interested in what
role the digital humanities can play in this context. Are DH research projects/outputs merely a subgroup of all research subject to online discoverability, or are the digital humanities a potentially key player in the development of strategies to make research visible and accessible online? Is the development of technologies and strategies to enhance the discoverability, accessibility, sustainability, preservation etc. of [particularly social sciences, arts and humanities] research?
I believe that the "global" digital humanities face some of the same
challenges as African reseachers in terms of getting the work to be seen, cited, recognised, and in terms of being able to create international networks, access funding and other research development opportunities, etc.
Any thoughts from you will be incredibly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
All the best,
Ernesto
Dr Ernesto Priego Lecturer in Library Science #citylis City University London
MediaCommons' THE NEW EVERYDAY is happy to announce the publication of
a cluster on
THE MULTIMODALITY OF COMICS IN EVERYDAY LIFE, curated by Ernesto Priego of City University London and David N. Wright
of Douglas College.
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Dear Giorgio,
That seems like a good strategy. I followed your lead and tried searching for "digital humanities" and actually came up with one article- http://www.ajol.info/index.php/ijhss/article/viewFile/63479/51323. It's about the University of Botswana and this could definitely be a start. Sometimes finding one contact can lead to a chain reaction. Other thoughts could be searching for "digital scholarship", "digitization", "digital projects", etc.
Best,
Isabel
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Dear all, I would be very interested in initiatives on Africa.
Sometimes ago I was trying to know more about the African situation and I made a search at AJOL on "digital libraries" and found more than 300 articles mentioned ( http://www.ajol.info/index.php/index/search/google?search=digital+library&am... ). This obviously is not exactly a survey on digital humanities in Africa but I thought it might give some insights in what is happening there.
Hope this helps, Giorgio
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 7:25 PM, Daniel O'Donnell <daniel.odonnell@uleth.camailto:daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca> wrote: Me too. I'm extremely keen on developing contacts there.
On 14-03-24 09:26 AM, Alex Gil wrote: Thank you Ernesto for the materials. I finally had an opportunity to read them.
I like Øyvind's suggestion. I volunteer to help with such an initiative. We have decent places to start. We have several suggestions of projects on the AroundDH listhttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmgLcm5jfVhSdGlPNm1WQ0hRYjFTU1E5QnBDdlZMQWc&usp=drive_web#gid=12 (added mostly by Amanda Visconti); we have the work of Titilola Babalola who won our essay contest last year; South Africa has seen a burst of activity, with E. Vanhoutte visiting lately and Leon de Kock's advocacy work.
I myself am in a partnership with Kwara State University in Nigeria for a project on African Mother Tongues, which is just in its earliest stages, and will keep the community abreast.
In any case, count on me for the work ahead.
A.
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 7:10 AM, Øyvind Eide <oyvind.eide@iln.uio.nomailto:oyvind.eide@iln.uio.no> wrote: Dear Ernesto, and all,
Thank you for sharing the material which was very interesting to look through. I am sorry I did not reply before the workshop; it was due to heavy workload and not lack of interest, as you also suggested.
I wonder how we as an international group could help establishing better cooperation between DH researchers, students, and others in various African countries without creating another external system talking about Africa? I think a good starting point would be an overview over DH on the continent. Does anyone know if any such overviews exist? If not: any ideas for how to make one?
A next step would then be to invite people to take part in online fora such as this one. But it would also be good if we were able to set up or take part in one or more physical meetings -- talking to people face to face is still important.
EADH (the European Association for Digital Humanities) supported such activities in Japan in several years before the establishment of JADH (the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities). We may be able to provide some support for similar work in Africa as well. It would have to happen in close cooperation with not only GO:DH as a group, but also with groups and individuals in Africa with a strong interest in the development in either national, regional, or a continental organisation of some sort.
Any ideas for how to proceed? Any members of this list -- African or from elsewhere -- who would be interested in discussing this further?
Similar discussion should and already do take part in other parts of the world of course -- the need for better cooperation is not restricted to Africa. Also: if what I suggest here is already on the way, please apologise for my lack of knowledge!
All the best,
Øyvind
On 19. mars 2014, at 09:16, Ernesto Priego wrote:
Thank you Isabel and Alex. The workshop was last week. I came back from Nairobi on Wednesday night. The materials I shared are outcomes from the workshop.
Best
Sent from my mobile
On Mar 18, 2014 7:37 PM, "igalina" <igalina@unam.mxmailto:igalina@unam.mx> wrote: Hola Ernesto, Hope you manage to read this in time. You mention: "I am sharing with you these thoughts because I am interested in what role the digital humanities can play in this context. Are DH research projects/outputs merely a subgroup of all research subject to online discoverability, or are the digital humanities a potentially key player in the development of strategies to make research visible and accessible online? Is the development of technologies and strategies to enhance the discoverability, accessibility, sustainability, preservation etc. of [particularly social sciences, arts and humanities] research?"
From experience here in Mexico, and Latin America in general, I think that it is more likely that formal digital publishing outputs (in particular research articles) are more likely to be of interest than DH projects/outputs that tend to takes shapes and forms that decision makers and evaluators are not sure how to deal with. In this sense DH projects/outputs can be key players in challenging notions of what academic research production can look like, but 'authorities' (can't find a better word but I mean the people that approve a project and give you funding or support) tend to like things that they recognize. So DH project/outputs have a double challenge, they are digital and they are not familiar. So online discoverability projects tend to focus on journal articles above all. Key Latin American projects such as Redalyc, Scielo, Latindex to name a few are all based on journal publishing. In the past few years there has been an increasing interest in the publication of ebooks, which are more related to the Humanities, but again more in the formal publishing line. DH projects/outputs still tend to be individual initiatives with little or no institutional back up and placed on personal web space or on the institutional website but in an informal manner.
Hope this is useful and looking forward to hearing your report from Kenya. Best, Isabel
Dra. Isabel Galina Russell Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) igalina@unam.mxmailto:igalina@unam.mx @igalina De: globaloutlookdh-l <globaloutlookdh-l-bounces@uleth.camailto:globaloutlookdh-l-bounces@uleth.ca> en nombre de Alex Gil <colibri.alex@gmail.commailto:colibri.alex@gmail.com> Enviado: martes, 18 de marzo de 2014 06:33 a.m. Para: A list for participants in the ADHO DH Global Outlook Community Asunto: Re: [globaloutlookDH-l] Visibility of Research: What can DH do to help?
Networking any new friends with us sounds like a good solid first step!
Safe travels, Ernesto.
a.
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Ernesto Priego <efpriego@gmail.commailto:efpriego@gmail.com> wrote: Hello everyone,
This Saturday I am flying to Kenya to participate in the Workshop on the Discoverability of African Scholarship Online organised by the OpenUCT Initiative and Carnegie Corporation (some info at http://openuct.uct.ac.za/events/workshop-discoverability-african-scholarship... ).
As the workshop's documentation states it,
The requirement by funders and research agencies that open access outputs not only be online, but also that content be curated and archived in repositories and databases with associated metadata in line with international best practice, additionally means that the content generated by the North will generally be shared in a fashion that facilitates optimal findability and interoperability.
Visibility and interoperability with other online platforms and databases is crucial not only in terms of boosting access to knowledge, but also in facilitating new forms of digital and inter-disciplinary research that are made possible through text mining and federated search functionality. The growing divide in content visibility and curation is therefore also highly undesirable in that it threatens to decrease the scope of the global knowledge corpus by virtue of the fact that knowledge from certain parts of the world will be less likely to have been curated and shared in line with the international protocols that facilitate content exchange and digital scholarship.
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There is evidence that individual African scholars have taken the initiative of establishing their own websites and promoting academic output online through personal or disciplinary-oriented channels. Undertaking research, digitising the outputs (or even having them ‘born digital’ in original electronic form) and putting these online is however not sufficient. Some strategy is required in order to approach the exercise in an efficient and cost effective manner so that research can be visible, discoverable and communicated in order to create and maximise value. These activities require specific competencies and activities which have only come into being in recent years; while rapidly emerging globally, they are generally in short supply or still largely unknown amongst many African academics, and to some extent within institutions as a whole.
I am particularly keen in having a conversation about the importance of networks when it comes to creating a critical mass if not a culture of research sharing. The evolution of free/affordable technologies that enhance access, dissemination, archiving/harvesting, citation and measurement of research has been fast in many developed economies, but their adoption in other countries and cultures is not without challenges (and opportunities) of all kinds. The burden of the individual researcher to enhance the visibility of his/her individual research can be a full time occupation for which a particularly privileged setting/working/social conditions and technical expertise is often needed.
I am sharing with you these thoughts because I am interested in what role the digital humanities can play in this context. Are DH research projects/outputs merely a subgroup of all research subject to online discoverability, or are the digital humanities a potentially key player in the development of strategies to make research visible and accessible online? Is the development of technologies and strategies to enhance the discoverability, accessibility, sustainability, preservation etc. of [particularly social sciences, arts and humanities] research?
I believe that the "global" digital humanities face some of the same challenges as African reseachers in terms of getting the work to be seen, cited, recognised, and in terms of being able to create international networks, access funding and other research development opportunities, etc.
Any thoughts from you will be incredibly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
All the best,
Ernesto
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