I held this presentation at the first PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference in Vancouver Canada, on July 12th 2007. Check out the general conference blog if you want to know more about the event: http://scholarlypublishing.blogspot.com/ You may also be interested in things marked with the "open-access" tag in my own blog: http://corpblawg.ynada.com/
- 1. eLanguage.net Shifting the paradigm in linguistics from
academic publishing to scholarly communication *Dieter Stein,
Cornelius Puschmann University of Duesseldorf [email_address]
[email_address] PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference 2007 12 July
2007
2. Contents of this presentation
- eLanguage: Concept & Organization
- The Future: Beyond the Paper Metaphor
3. A) eLanguage: Concept and Organization 4. What is
eLanguage?
- an aggregator for peer-reviewed content from OA journals in
Linguistics
- a platform for publishing scientific articles on-line
- a source of meta-information on academic Linguistics (book
reviews, department news etc)
- an academic community on the Web
5. Project Partners 6. FromLanguageto eLanguage
- roughly 7,000 individual and institutional subscribers
- issues since 2001 available via Project MUSE
- narrow focus due to space limitations
- high production and dissemination costs
- the goal was towiden the focus
- while at the same timereducing costs
- andfacilitating access ...an Open Access approach was the ideal
solution
7. eLanguage organizational structure
- the eLanguage editorial board reviews co-journal proposals
- the editor in chief is responsible for the management of the
platform
- co-journals are independent once they have been approved
Editor in Chief Editorial Board 8. Co-journal accreditation
process forms an editorial board andsubmits a proposal reviews
proposal and approves or asks for revisions is admitted as an
eLanguage co-journal eLanguage Editorial Board 9. Expanded
organizational structure content IT services 10. B) The Technology
11. A mashup of tools OJS 2.1.1 + Wordpress 2.2 12. Data from OJS
and WP aggregated on the main page blog section content (WP)
co-journal content (OJS) master feed 13. Open Source
Reliability
- all first-level products (OJS, WP) are based on second-level
FOSS technologies and protocols such as PHP, MySQL, Apache and
RSS/Atom
- mature, well-supported and well-documented products
- 90% of software development is outsourced - advantage : we can
focus on the content and on making it accessible
14. Using external tools for added services
- Google Domain Tools (admin)
- Google Custom Search (search)
- Google Groups (mailing lists)
- Google Analytics (web statistics)
- Technorati (blog management)
- Feedburner (feed diagnostics)
15. Three goals for maximum accessibility
- to make all eLanguage content accessible via search
- to make everything published in eLanguage accessible both via
library catalogs and commercial search engines
- to make access to ourcontentindependent from access to
ourwebsiteby using feeds (everything but the full text of articles
is available via feeds)
16. Benefits of the platform
- readers : content is free and easily accessible
- authors : no costs, greater impact, faster publication,
ownership of article, precise metrics
- editors : full control over their publication, less or no
headaches about technical issues, no volumes of specialized
knowledge necessary
- Linguistic Society of America : "what's good for the discipline
is good for the association", great visibility
- HBZ/DIPP : strategic value / experience
17. C) Where We Are 18. eLanguage Beta 19. Recent
developments
- as of July 2007, four journals have been accredited:
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- Anette Rosenbach (University of Paderborn, Germany),
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- Alexander Bergs (University of Osnabruck, Gemany)
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- Journal of Mesoamerican Languages and Linguistics (JMLL)
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- David Mora-Marn (University of North Carolina, USA)
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- Linguistic Issues in Language Technology (LiLT)
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- Annie Zaenen (PARC Inc / Stanford University, USA),
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- Bonnie Webber (University of Edinburgh, UK),
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- Martha Palmer (University of Colorado, USA)
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- Semantics & Pragmatics (S&P)
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- Kai von Fintel (Massachusetts of Technology, USA)
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- David Beaver (University of Texas, USA)
- a blog has been launched to keep people informed
- launch in spring/summer 2008
20. Issues
- producing content takes time
- many researchers have a wait and see approach to Open
Access
- communication must be managed well when working in a
geographically dispersed team
- for our needs, OJS could be simpler in terms of its UI, even if
that meant less functions
21. What could we do better?
- Once the platform is hugely successful we could look
into...
- unified citation database
- more "reader" involvement (blog comments? link external
sources?)
22. D) The Future: Beyond the Paper Metaphor 23. What happens if
projects like eLanguage succeed?
- Let's assume that in the future...
- a large percentage of all scholarly research is OA
- thestorageof research data is heavily centralized in a few
powerful archives
- the content isannotatedmanually by its creators, as well as
through automatic means (keyword extraction) and social web
practices (tagging)
- retrievalof this content largely takes place via commercial
search engines
- How does the role of academic libraries change if thestorage
,annotationandretrievalof information is realized elsewhere?
24. Publishing as the key role of the future
- archiving, enrichment and retrieval are likely to be strongly
centralized,
- while Net access and storage will increasingly be treated as
commodities
- What remains is to enablethe creation and disseminationof
scholarly content as it takes new forms and becomes usable in new
ways
- Universities, scholarly societies and information
infrastructure providers need to work together to achieve this
goal
25. Thank You for listening! 26. eLanguage.net Shifting the
paradigm in linguistics from academic publishing to scholarly
communication *Dieter Stein, Cornelius Puschmann University of
Duesseldorf [email_address] [email_address] PKP Scholarly
Publishing Conference 2007 12 July 2007