New scenarios in scholarly publishing and debate
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Citation: Simon J. Buckingham Shum, Tamara Sumner (1998) New scenarios in scholarly publishing and debate. The Knowledge Web: Learning and Collaborating on the Net (RSS)
Tagged: scholarly publishing (RSS), argumentation (RSS), peer review (RSS), semantic publishing (RSS)
Summary:
This book chapter discusses D3E, the Digital Document Discourse Environment (open source code, description, screenshots, other references). D3E centralizes the discussion about an article, integrating with the peer-review process.
Good scholarly peer review, they say, is open, informed, dynamic, carefully constructed, cumulative, and preserved. D3E is based on these aspects, and especially focuses on opening and preserving a dynamic, easily-findable debate about a publication.
Probably one of the earliest papers about semantic publishing.
Theoretical and practical relevance:
As of 2010, 12 years after this was published, most scholarly communication still relies on the paper model ('papyrocentric'-a term credited to Stevan Harnard) in some respects. However, a closer examination would show that much has changed at least in distribution of texts online since that time. (Consider Harnad, Stevan. "Publicly Retrievable FTP Archives For Esoteric Science and Scholarship: A Subversive Proposal." which sparked a downloadable book: preprints and self-archiving are mainstream in some disciplines. This also could be relevant for envisioning and justifying peer-review post-publication. The dimensions of peer review that they emphasize could be used elswhere.
