scholarly journals Opportunities for social knowledge creation in the digital humanities

2019 ◽  
pp. 290-300
Author(s):  
Alyssa Arbuckle
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Social Knowledge

scholarly journals The Value of Plurality in ‘The Network with a Thousand Entrances’

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ray Siemens ◽  
Alyssa Arbuckle ◽  
Lindsey Seatter ◽  
Randa El Khatib ◽  
Tracey El Hajj
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Social Knowledge ◽  
Widespread Application ◽  
Modeling Practices ◽  
The Web ◽  
Web Annotation

This contribution reflects on the value of plurality in the ‘network with a thousand entrances’ suggested by McCarty ( http://goo.gl/H3HAfs ), and others, in association with approaching time-honoured annotative and commentary practices of much-engaged texts. The question is how this approach aligns with tensions, today, surrounding the multiplicity of endeavour associated with modeling practices of annotation by practitioners of the digital humanities. Our work, hence, surveys annotative practice across its reflection in contemporary praxis, from the MIT annotation studio whitepaper ( http://goo.gl/8NBdnf ) through the work of the Open Annotation Collaboration ( http://www.openannotation.org ), and manifest in multiple tools facilitating annotation across the web up to and including widespread application in social knowledge creation suites like Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web annotation )

scholarly journals Social Knowledge Creation: Three Annotated Bibliographies

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alyssa Arbuckle ◽  
Belojevic Nina ◽  
Matthew Hiebert ◽  
Ray Siemens ◽  
Shaun Wong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Social Knowledge ◽  
New Knowledge

In 2012-2013 a team led by Ray Siemens at the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL), University of Victoria, in collaboration with Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE), developed three annotated bibliographies under the rubric of social knowledge creation. The items for the bibliographies were gathered and annotated by members of the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL) to form this tripartite document as a resource for students and researchers involved in the iNKE team and well beyond, iincluding at digital humanities seminars in Bern (June 2013) and Leipzig (July 2013).

scholarly journals Open Social Knowledge Creation and Library and Archival Metadata

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Dean Seeman ◽  
Heather Dean
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Archival Description ◽  
Social Knowledge ◽  
Social Tagging ◽  
Archival Studies ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Research Communities ◽  
Resource Description

Standardization both reflects and facilitates the collaborative and networked approach to metadata creation within the fields of librarianship and archival studies. These standards—such as Resource Description and Access and Rules for Archival Description—and the theoretical frameworks they embody enable professionals to work more effectively together. Yet such guidelines also determine who is qualified to undertake the work of cataloging and processing in libraries and archives. Both fields are empathetic to facilitating user-generated metadata and have taken steps towards collaborating with their research communities (as illustrated, for example, by social tagging and folksonomies) but these initial experiments cannot yet be regarded as widely adopted and radically open and social. This paper explores the recent histories of descriptive work in libraries and archives and the challenges involved in departing from deeply established models of metadata creation.

scholarly journals Dispersed/Networked Open Social Discovery Research: Applications for Humanistic Machine Learning & Topic Modelling

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard J. Lane
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Social Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Development ◽  
Topic Modelling ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Discovery Research ◽  
Broad Audience ◽  
Democratic Engagement ◽  
Rich Spectrum

One of the benefits of open social scholarship also presents researchers with a challenge: the dispersed nature of the knowledge breakthroughs presented by a diverse network of scholars inside and outside of the academy. Accessibility enhances the broad reach of open social scholarship, leading to a democratic engagement across a culturally rich spectrum of participants. But such processes do not necessarily provide coherent critical constellations or knowledge clusters from the perspective of the broad audience. Further, due to the positive benefits of functioning as a group, open social scholarship groups may ignore or simply not register potential discovery research breakthroughs that do not meet the criteria for the groups’ success. In all three instances (knowledge dispersal; lack of knowledge development coherence for all of the community and non-community members across a network; parallel knowledge breakthroughs that remain dispersed/unrecognized), machine learning and topic modelling can provide a methodology for recognizing and understanding open social knowledge creation.

scholarly journals Exploring Cross-Cultural Differences In Social Knowledge Creation And Exchange: A Preliminary Examination

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
John Girard ◽  
Andy Bertsch
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Cultural Models ◽  
Correlation Coefficients ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Social Knowledge ◽  
Cross Cultural Differences ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
The Social

This paper chronicles an exploratory, in-progress research project that compares the findings of Hofstede’s cross-cultural research with those of Forrester’s Social Technographics research.  The aim of the project is to determine if a relationship exists between cultural differences and social knowledge creation and exchange.  Part one of the study mapped Davenport and Prusak’s information and knowledge creation theories to the six components of Forrester’s Social Technographics study (creators, critics, collectors, joiners, spectators, and inactives).  Next, the Social Technographics results from 13 nations were compared with Hofstede’s four cultural dimensions (power distance, individualism, uncertainty avoidance, masculinity).  The analysis included exploring the relationship visually using 24 scatter diagrams, running correlation coefficients (Peasson’s r) for each relationship, testing for significance of Pearson’s r, and finally conducting regression analyses on each relationship. Although the authors believe that culture influences behaviours, this study did not reveal any reasonable relationships between culture and placement along the Social Technographics.  However, it is possible that there exists problems in the Hofstede scales.  The Hofstede scales have been highly criticized in the literature.  It may be that other cross-cultural models such as GLOBE, Schwartz, Triandis, or others may yield different results.  In this regard, further research is necessary.  The next phase of the project will compare Social Technographics with the GLOBE project findings.

Between Tradition and Web 2.0

2012 ◽  
pp. 112-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Beaulieu ◽  
Karina van Dalen-Oskam ◽  
Joris van Zundert
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Academic Practices ◽  
Virtual Research Environment ◽  
Dutch History ◽  
Hybrid Forms

Web 2.0 is characterized by values of openness of participation (unrestricted by traditional markers of expertise), collaboration across and beyond institutions, increased value of resources through distributed participation, dynamic content and context, and self-organization and scalability. These values seem to offer new possibilities for knowledge creation. They also contrast in important ways with traditional forms of knowledge creation, where expertise, institutional affiliation, and restrictions on access and circulation have been important. Yet, rather than seeing a dichotomy between Web 2.0 and non-Web 2.0 modes of working in digital humanities, the authors observe the rise of hybrid forms that combine elements of these two modes. In this chapter, the authors reflect on the reasons for such hybrids, specifically through an exploration of eLaborate. As a virtual research environment, eLaborate targets both professional scholars and volunteers working with textual resources. The environment offers tools to transcribe textual sources, to annotate these transcriptions, and to publish them as digital scholarly editions. The majority of content currently comprises texts from the cultural heritage of Dutch history and literary history, although eLaborate does not put limits on the kind of text or language. Nor does the system impose limits on the openness of contribution to any edition project. Levels of openness and access are solely determined by the groups of users working on specific texts or editions. This Web 2.0 technology-based software is now used by several groups of teachers and students, and by scholarly, educated, and interested volunteers. We conducted interviews with coordinators of and participants in different editorial groups, and we evaluate their experiences from the point of view of the described values of Web 2.0. We investigate changes in digital humanities resulting from intermediate forms between traditional academic practices and Web 2.0 modes. Rather than claim a revolution, we show how hybrid forms can actually be very powerful sites for change, through their inclusive rather than oppositional setup in relation to traditional practices.

Integrating the Social Media Engine with Large-scale Open Access Repositories: A Discussion

2020 ◽  
Vol 02 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Meneses
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Search Engine ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Social Knowledge ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
The Social

The Social Media Engine relies on interactive computer-mediated technologies and the increased impact, readership, and alt-metrics present in open access repositories—while fostering public engagement, open social scholarship, and social knowledge creation by matching readers with publications. In this paper I focus on a discussion that explores the possibilities of integrating a search engine that ranks its results according to trends in social media with large-scale open access repositories. Ultimately, this discussion aims to explore the implications of creating tools to emphasize the connections between documents that can be treated as objects of study as well.

scholarly journals Intersections Between Social Knowledge Creation and Critical Making

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alyssa Arbuckle ◽  
Alex Christie ◽  
ETCL Research Group ◽  
INKE Research Group ◽  
MVP Research Group
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Social Knowledge ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Shared Knowledge ◽  
Communication Practice ◽  
Research Production ◽  
Critical Making ◽  
Scholarly Production

This article outlines the practices of digital scholarly communication (moving research production and dissemination online), critical making (producing theoretical insights by transforming digitized heritage materials), and social knowledge creation (collaborating in online environments to produce shared knowledge products). In addition to exploring these practices and their principles, this article argues for a combination of these activities in order to engender knowledge production chains that connect multiple institutions and communities. Highlighting the relevance of critical making theory for scholarly communication practice, this article provides examples of theoretical research that offer tangible products for expanding and enriching scholarly production.

scholarly journals Foundations for On-Campus Open Social Scholarship Activities

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Randa El Khatib ◽  
Alyssa Arbuckle ◽  
Ray Siemens
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Research Output ◽  
Annotated Bibliography ◽  
Social Knowledge ◽  
Digital Medium ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
The University

Social knowledge creation, citizen scholarship, interdisciplinary collaborations, and university-community partnerships have become more common and more visible in contemporary academia. The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL) currently focuses on how to engage with such transformations in knowledge creation. In this paper we survey the intellectual foundation of social knowledge creation and major initiatives undertaken to pursue and enact this research in the ETCL. “Social Knowledge Creation: Three Annotated Bibliographies” (Arbuckle, Belojevic, Hiebert, Siemens, et al. 2014), and an updated iteration, “An Annotated Bibliography on Social Knowledge Creation,” (Arbuckle, El Hajj, El Khatib, Seatter, Siemens, et al, 2017), explore how academics collaborate to create knowledge, and how social knowledge creation can bridge the real or perceived gap between the academy and the public. This knowledgebase lays the foundation for the “Open Social Scholarship Annotated Bibliography” (El Hajj, El Khatib, Leibel, Seatter, et al. 2019), which draws on research that adopts and propagates social knowledge creation ideals and explores trends such as accessible research development and dissemination. Using these annotated bibliographies as a theoretical foundation for action, the ETCL began test-driving open social scholarship initiatives with the launch of the Open Knowledge Practicum (OKP). The OKP invites members of the community and the university to pursue their own research in the ETCL. Research output is published in open, public venues. Overall, we aim to acknowledge the expanding, social nature of knowledge production, and to detail how the ETCL utilizes in-person interaction and the digital medium to facilitate open social scholarship.

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