Comments on: Session Idea: Discussion on the Future of Digital Publications http://ncph2012.thatcamp.org/04/16/session-idea-discussion-on-the-future-of-digital-publications/ The Humanities and Technology Camp Fri, 01 Jun 2012 08:16:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 By: Session Idea: Discussion on the Future of Digital Publications … « VanRanke and Droysen http://ncph2012.thatcamp.org/04/16/session-idea-discussion-on-the-future-of-digital-publications/#comment-429 Tue, 08 May 2012 05:52:33 +0000 http://ncph2012.thatcamp.org/?p=730#comment-429 […] on ncph2012.thatcamp.org Like this:LikeBe the first to like this post. from → Uncategorized ← The Seasons of […]

]]> By: David Trowbridge http://ncph2012.thatcamp.org/04/16/session-idea-discussion-on-the-future-of-digital-publications/#comment-122 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 01:50:28 +0000 http://ncph2012.thatcamp.org/?p=730#comment-122 Thank you Jack, Lisa, Jeffrey and Anne. Hopefully we can have some fruitful discussion on this topic, either as a formal session or informally as the day progresses.

My flight leaves at 6AM and arrives in MKE at 930, so I will be a little bit late in arriving. I look forward to meeting you all tomorrow morning.

]]> By: Anne Whisnant http://ncph2012.thatcamp.org/04/16/session-idea-discussion-on-the-future-of-digital-publications/#comment-103 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:23:12 +0000 http://ncph2012.thatcamp.org/?p=730#comment-103 I also posted this on the proposal about blogging, but it seems that both of these sessions possibly intersect/inform the current discussion (which will be quite hot at the NCPH meeting) about the future directions of any “journal” published by NCPH now that ties with The Public Historian have been dissolved. I would be very interested in seeing that thread incorporated within (and informed by) these larger discussions of blogging and digital scholarly publishing.

]]> By: Blogs. | THATCamp National Council on Public History 2012 http://ncph2012.thatcamp.org/04/16/session-idea-discussion-on-the-future-of-digital-publications/#comment-98 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:26:22 +0000 http://ncph2012.thatcamp.org/?p=730#comment-98 […] It’s likely that this session will overlap with David’s session on the future of digital scholarly publishing. […]

]]> By: Jeffrey Pasley http://ncph2012.thatcamp.org/04/16/session-idea-discussion-on-the-future-of-digital-publications/#comment-84 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 03:42:19 +0000 http://ncph2012.thatcamp.org/?p=730#comment-84 This overlaps with what I was thinking about proposing. I have two questions about digital publications: what seems to be the most effective technical means of creating them, in terms of both what most scholar-authors will be able to handle? There are going to need to be some semi-standard tools and formats that many many historians are able to use if digital publications are ever to going achieve some sort of parity in the academic prestige market. Libraries and university administrations tend to prize electronic anything because students like electronic stuff better than books and because many of the adminstrators, especially, think digital is going to save them money. But it is quite otherwise among the historians, especially within most history departments, where only physical books will get you anywhere 95-99% of the time.(There are some more progressive institutions actually hiring digital specialists, but I am guessing that in many cases that person will be the only one in their department in a position to get tenure/promotion on the basis of digital work, if.) That raises my second question, which is what strategies can be adopted to break down some of the resistance to digital publications as legitimate scholarly works on par with the physical, footnoted kind?

]]> By: Lisa Silverman http://ncph2012.thatcamp.org/04/16/session-idea-discussion-on-the-future-of-digital-publications/#comment-76 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 01:24:07 +0000 http://ncph2012.thatcamp.org/?p=730#comment-76 The future of digital publications is the issue that most interests me, too. I think the discussion questions both David and Jack posed are vital, and I’d also like to discuss the possibilities of concrete action we can take at this point to actively engage with digital publications. More than anything, I hate the feeling of having to wait around passively until digital publications “arrive” in any particular field (German-Jewish studies, in my case). But I also know one scholar alone can’t singlehandedly change things. I think a discussion would help.

]]> By: Jack Dougherty http://ncph2012.thatcamp.org/04/16/session-idea-discussion-on-the-future-of-digital-publications/#comment-66 Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:29:12 +0000 http://ncph2012.thatcamp.org/?p=730#comment-66 Interesting session idea. Another question that comes to my mind is: What lessons can we learn from existing open access history journals (www.doaj.org/doaj?func=subject&cpid=13) and book publishers (www.doabooks.org/), and what should we watch for in newer initiatives, such as CHNM’s PressForward (pressforward.org/) and the CLIR/NITLE Anvil initiative (www.clir.org/initiatives-partnerships/anvil-academic-publishing)?

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