John Theibault – THATCamp CHNM 2012 http://chnm2012.thatcamp.org The Humanities and Technology Camp Sun, 29 Jul 2012 01:05:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 Desiderata for Digital Scholarly Publications/Digital University Presses and Imprints http://chnm2012.thatcamp.org/06/15/desiderata-for-digital-scholarly-publicationsdigital-university-presses-and-imprints/ http://chnm2012.thatcamp.org/06/15/desiderata-for-digital-scholarly-publicationsdigital-university-presses-and-imprints/#comments Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:59:09 +0000 http://chnm2012.thatcamp.org/?p=675 Continue reading ]]>

Following up on the proposal by William Deal and perhaps combinable with it. Stockton is considering setting up its own digital press/imprint.  I’m interested in brainstorming/hacking a set of features/services that scholars producing digital materials not directly connected to their home institutions ought to expect from the publishers of their digital work. In traditional print publications, scholars were rarely expected to have input on the production side, but born digital projects often must specify the form that the final project will take as part of the development process. If production/coding/design expertise must be built into the project team from the outset, does that imply that the publishing site must also be agreed upon before the work is started? Or is the role of digital publisher merely editing/peer review/quality control? Or even further, are we reaching a point where the coding/design of sites is becoming sufficiently standardized that a form of “production handoff” similar to print is coming soon? (Unlikely, I think) As part of this session, I would propose generating a census of effective digital scholarly publications with information on the “publishers” and when and how they became involved in the project. My suspicion is that they are overwhelming published at digital centers by people directly associated with those centers. If that is the case, will the expansion of digital publications come from an increase in the number of digital centers, an increase in the affiliation of outside scholars with current digital centers, or some other institutions assuming the role that digital centers currently handle?

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