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Matt Pasiewicz and CNI have made available digital audio interviews with a number of prominent attendees at the 2006 Fall CNI Task Force Meeting. Selected interviews are below. More are available on Pasiewicz’s blog.

• An Interview about Zotero
• An Interview with Bill Arms
• An Interview with Casey Bisson
• An Interview with Christopher Blackall
• An Interview with Chuck Henry
• An Interview with Cliff Lynch
• An Interview with David Rosenthal
• An Interview with Eileen Fenton
• An Interview with Geneva Henry
• An Interview with Herbert van de Sompel
• An Interview with MacKenzie Smith

Version 66 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 2,830 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet.

The SEPB URL has changed:

http://sepb.digital-scholarship.org/

or http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html

There is a mirror site at:

http://www.digital-scholarship.com/sepb/sepb.html

The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog URL has also changed:

http://sepw.digital-scholarship.org/

or http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm

There is a mirror site at:

http://www.digital-scholarship.com/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm

The SEPW RSS feed is unaffected.

Changes in This Version

The bibliography has the following sections (revised sections are marked with an asterisk):

Table of Contents

1 Economic Issues*
2 Electronic Books and Texts
2.1 Case Studies and History*
2.2 General Works*
2.3 Library Issues*
3 Electronic Serials
3.1 Case Studies and History*
3.2 Critiques
3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals*
3.4 General Works*
3.5 Library Issues*
3.6 Research*
4 General Works*
5 Legal Issues
5.1 Intellectual Property Rights*
5.2 License Agreements*
6 Library Issues
6.1 Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata*
6.2 Digital Libraries*
6.3 General Works*
6.4 Information Integrity and Preservation*
7 New Publishing Models*
8 Publisher Issues*
8.1 Digital Rights Management*
9 Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI*
Appendix A. Related Bibliographies
Appendix B. About the Author*
Appendix C. SEPB Use Statistics

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources includes the following sections:

Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata
Digital Libraries*
Electronic Books and Texts*
Electronic Serials
General Electronic Publishing
Images
Legal
Preservation
Publishers
Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI*
SGML and Related Standards

Further Information about SEPB

The HTML version of SEPB is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a separate file. There are links to sources that are freely available on the Internet. It can be searched using a Google Search Engine. Whether the search results are current depends on Google’s indexing frequency.

In addition to the bibliography, the HTML document includes:

(1) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (biweekly list of new resources; also available by e-mail—see second URL—and RSS Feed—see third URL)

http://sepw.digital-scholarship.org/
http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=51756
http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss

(2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (directory of over 270 related Web sites)

http://sepr.digital-scholarship.org/

(3) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography)

http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/archive/sepa.htm

The 2005 annual PDF file is designed for printing. The printed bibliography is over 210 pages long. The PDF file is over 560 KB.

http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/archive/60/sepb.pdf

Related Article

An article about the bibliography has been published in The Journal of Electronic Publishing:

http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/bailey.html

The latest update of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (SEPW) is now available, which provides information about new scholarly literature and resources related to scholarly electronic publishing, such as books, journal articles, magazine articles, newsletters, technical reports, and white papers. Especially interesting are: The Complete Copyright Liability Handbook for Librarians and Educators, "Copyright Concerns in Online Education: What Students Need to Know," Digital Archiving: From Fragmentation to Collaboration, "Fixing Fair Use," "Mass Digitization of Books," MLA Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion, "Open Access: Why Should We Have It?," "Predictions for 2007," "Readers’ Attitudes to Self-Archiving in the UK," "The Rejection of D-Space: Selecting Theses Database Software at the University of Calgary Archives," "Taming the Digital Beast," and Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice.

The SEPW URL has changed. Use:

http://sepw.digital-scholarship.org/

or http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm

There is a mirror site at:

http://www.digital-scholarship.com/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm

The RSS feed is unaffected.

For weekly updates about news articles, Weblog postings, and other resources related to digital culture (e.g., copyright, digital privacy, digital rights management, and Net neutrality), digital libraries, and scholarly electronic publishing, see the latest DigitalKoans Flashback posting.

What was new and interesting during the week of 12/11/06? (Brief quotes follow article/Web page titles.)

• "5th Australian Mandate (8th Funder, 9th Institution, 17th Worldwide)"
  

  There are now 17 self-archiving mandates worldwide, 5 of them in Australia: A departmental and university-wide one at U. Tasmania, a university-wide one at QUT, and a funder mandate at ARC, joined soon after by another funder mandate (NHMRC) and reinforced by the Research Quality Framework (RQF) (the Australian counterpart of the UK Research Assessment Exercise, RAE).

• "Bill Would Extend Online Obscenity Laws to Blogs, Mailing Lists"
  

  Senator John McCain has proposed a bill to extend federal obscenity reporting guidelines to all forms of internet communications.

• "CAIRO Digital Archiving Project, University of Manchester"
  

  The University of Manchester’s CAIRO (Complex Archive Ingest for Repository Objects) is a digital archiving project funded by the United Kingdom’s JISC.

• "Blogging ‘Set to Peak Next Year’"
  

  The analysts said that during the middle of next year the number of blogs will level out at about 100 million.

• "Custom Zen: Enlightened Information Retrieval"
  

  Creator of LISZEN—the fairly new SE on the block—Garrett Hungerford used the Google Co-op tool for his CSE, which searches library blogs. . . . Garrett took a bit of time out his busy schedule last week to tell me about his vision for LISZEN, Library Zen, and the newest addition to his project: LISZEN Trends.

• "EMBO Adopts Hybrid Model for Two Journals"
  

  The EMBO Journal and EMBO reports to accept author-paid open-access articles, a press release from the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), December 14, 2006.

• "EU Withdraws Copyright Levies Plan"
  

  The European Commission said Wednesday it had withdrawn plans that could end copyright levies on electronic equipment but denied it had done so under pressure from the French government.

• "Guess Who’ll Be Running the House IP Subcommittee"
  

  But Berman’s oversight of the Judiciary Committee’s panel on the Internet and intellectual property is likely to give a splitting headache to consumer electronics makers and public interest groups advocating unfettered use of digital content.

• "How To Choose CD/DVD Archival Media"
  

  This article focuses on the history of Compact Discs, writable CD/DVD media, and why DVD+R is superior to DVD-R.

• "Huge Victory for Real People as Telco Bill Dies"
  

  The gavel has fallen on the 109th Congress marking the demise of entrenched corporate efforts to legislate away our Internet freedoms—and a stunning victory for real people who want to retain control of the Internet.

• "Kate Wittenberg on How Students Are Transforming the World of Information"
  

  As part of my continuing series of interviews leading up to the ELI 2007 Annual Meeting, I talked with Kate Wittenberg, Director of the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia University, or EPIC.

• "Is Linking to Copyright Infringing Material Illegal? In a Word, Yes."
  

  But first some background; QuickSilverScreen is a link sharing site almost solely dedicated to helping its visitors find copyright infringing material. Because QuickSilverScreen itself doesn’t host any of the video clips you might think that the site is perfectly legal. But you would be wrong.

• "Microsoft Launches Live Search Books"
  

  The launch of Live Search Books adds more competition to the book search space and adds sources that may not be available from anywhere else. . . . The initial beta shows promise for both Live Search Books and for what other OCA partners may offer.

• "Microsoft’s Live Search Books"
  

  After playing around for an hour or so with the recently released public beta version of Microsoft’s Live Search Books (LSB), I have to admit—against some vague sense that my better judgment is failing me—that I like it.

• "MIT’s New Scholarly Publishing Consultant"
  

  MIT has hired a Scholarly Publishing Consultant to advise faculty about their OA options.

• "New Chip Type May Replace Flash Memory, Disk Drives"
  

  A group of companies led by IBM have announced a new chip technology, dubbed phase-change memory, that could someday replace flash memory and tiny hard-disk drives in portable devices.

• "New Discussion Forum on OA"
  

  Open Access and Digital Libraries is a new Yahoo Group launched earlier today by Sukhdev Singh.

• "Peter Suber: Heart of the Open Access Movement"
  

  The legendarily hard-working Peter Suber manages, amazingly, to keep so up to speed on open access happenings around the world that his Open Access News blog is the authoritative source for OA news—and perspectives.

• "‘Second Life’ Hits Second Million in Eight Weeks"
  

  On Thursday, the virtual world’s home page showed that the total number of registered accounts peaked at 2 million for the first time and is currently at 2,001,551.

• "Section 108, Oh My!"
  

  The Library of Congress Study Group on Section 108 (of Title 17, the US copyright law) has issued a “notice of a public roundtable with a request for comments” in the ever-popular Federal Register. . . . This is about the worst mish-mash I have ever seen.

• "Virtually Addicted"
  

  A lawsuit against IBM is reviving debate over whether Web overuse may be classified as an addiction.

• "Why 2 Education-Networking Groups Just Can’t Get Along"
  

  In an essay in the latest issue of Educause Review called "Shame on Us," Ms. McClure gives a behind-the-scenes account of the recent merger talks between the two networking groups, Internet2 and National Lambda Rail.

• "Wikipedia Founder Remakes Web Publishing Economics"
  

  Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said on Monday his for-profit company, Wikia Inc., is ready to give away—for free—all the software, computing, storage and network access that Web site builders need to create community collaboration sites.

• "Willard McCarty’s 2006 Lyman Lecture: “The Imaginations of Computing”"
  

  Willard McCarty (King’s College, London), 2006 winner of the prestigious Richard W. Lyman award for achievements in digital humanities, recently delivered his Lyman lecture at the National Humanities Center.

Lawrence Lessig’s Code: Version 2.0 is out. This update of the now classic Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace was written using a Wiki, with Lessig editing and refining that digital text.

The resulting book is under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License.

It can be freely downloaded in PDF form. Later, the final version of the book will be available on a second Wiki.

What is Collex? The project’s About page describes it in part as follows:

Collex is a set of tools designed to aid students and scholars working in networked archives and federated repositories of humanities materials: a sophisticated COLLections and EXhibits mechanism for the semantic web.

Collex allows users to collect, annotate, and tag online objects and to repurpose them in illustrated, interlinked essays or exhibits. It functions within any modern web browser without recourse to plugins or downloads and is fully networked as a server-side application. By saving information about user activity (the construction of annotated collections and exhibits) as ‘remixable’ metadata, the Collex system writes current practice into the scholarly record and permits knowledge discovery based not only on the characteristics or ‘facets’ of digital objects, but also on the contexts in which they are placed by a community of scholars.

A detailed description of the project is available in "COLLEX: Semantic Collections & Exhibits for the Remixable Web."

You can see Collex in action at the NINES (a Networked Interface for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship) project, which also uses IVANHOE ("a shared, online playspace for readers interested in exploring how acts of interpretation get made and reflecting on what those acts mean or might mean") and Juxta ("a cross-platform tool for collating and analyzing any kind or number of textual objects").

The About 9s page identifies key objectives of the NINES project as follows:

• It will create a robust framework to support the authority of digital scholarship and its relevance in tenure and other scholarly assessment procedures.
• It will help to establish a real, practical publishing alternative to the paper-based academic publishing system, which is in an accelerating state of crisis.
• It will address in a coordinated and practical way the question of how to sustain scholarly and educational projects that have been built in digital forms.
• It will establish a base for promoting new modes of criticism and scholarship promised by digital tools.

A message by Liddy Nevile on DC-General has spawned an interesting thread about the need to have a metadata scheme that describes people. Other participants note related efforts, such as BIO, the FOAF Vocabulary Specification, GEDCOM, the North Carolina Encoded Archival Context (EAC) Project, and the XHTML Friends Network.

The MLA Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion has issued an important report. (The MLA is the Modern Language Association of America.)

Here’s some background on the report from its Executive Summary:

In 2004 the Executive Council of the Modern Language Association of America created a task force to examine current standards and emerging trends in publication requirements for tenure and promotion in English and foreign language departments in the United States. The council’s action came in response to widespread anxiety in the profession about ever-rising demands for research productivity and shrinking humanities lists by academic publishers, worries that forms of scholarship other than single-authored books were not being properly recognized, and fears that a generation of junior scholars would have a significantly reduced chance of being tenured. The task force was charged with investigating the factual basis behind such concerns and making recommendations to address the changing environment in which scholarship is being evaluated in tenure and promotion decisions.

The task force made 20 key recommendations, including:

3. The profession as a whole should develop a more capacious conception of scholarship by rethinking the dominance of the monograph, promoting the scholarly essay, establishing multiple pathways to tenure, and using scholarly portfolios. . . .

4. Departments and institutions should recognize the legitimacy of scholarship produced in new media, whether by individuals or in collaboration, and create procedures for evaluating these forms of scholarship. . . .

15. The task force encourages further study of the unfulfilled parts of its charge with respect to multiple submissions of manuscripts and comparisons of the number of books published by university presses between 1999 and 2005.

16. The task force recommends establishing concrete measures to support university presses. . . .

19. The task force encourages discussion of the current form of the dissertation (as a monograph-in-progress) and of the current trends in the graduate curriculum.

What was new and interesting during the week of 12/4/06? (Brief quotes follow article/Web page titles.)

• "Beatles Mashups—By the Beatles!"
  

  George Martin, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have produced an album of Beatles mashups.

• "Blooger Sued for Copyright Infringement"
  

  X17 filed suit against Perez (whose real name is Mario Lavendeira) on Friday, claiming the blogger, who’s dubbed himself the "Queen of All Media," knowingly and willfully used X17’s images on his blog without permission from the agency, thereby violating federal law.

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