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Paper abstract bibtex The Digits team (Matt Burton, Matthew J. Lavin, Jessica Otis, and Scott B. Weingart) convened around the question of how we might share, preserve, and legitimize scholarship freed from the affordances of print. For the A.W. Mellon-funded Digits Planning Grant (2016-2018), the PIs had three goals: Investigate the use of software containers for research in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Assess the infrastructural needs of digital humanists around publishing and preserving web-centric scholarship. Gather a team of experts to guide the above activities and plan how they might inform a beneficial intervention into the scholarly ecosystem. Through our investigation into the scholarly uses of containers, we discovered that the technical infrastructure needed to connect containers with digital publications is underdeveloped. We see potential for container technologies to facilitate existing digital scholarly publications and afford new forms of computational scholarship, but this process would first require a series of infrastructural bridges. The digital scholarship needs assessment we conducted, as well as our advisory board meetings, made it clear that a targeted technological intervention alone would not be enough to welcome web-first publications into the scholarly ecosystem; in-tandem cultural and institutional changes are also necessary. The first and second of our three tasks resulted in the two reports that comprise this article. The first report, A New Unit of Publication: The potential of software containers for digital scholarship, involved an environmental and secondary source scan of activities at the intersection containerization and scholarship. The second report, New Scholarship in the Digital Age: Making, publishing, maintaining, and preserving non-traditional scholarly objects, summarizes 75 interviews of scholars, technicians, publishers, and others who work towards the publication of digital-first scholarship.
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title = {Digits: {Two} {Reports} on {New} {Units} of {Scholarly} {Publication}},
volume = {22},
issn = {1080-2711},
url = {https://doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0022.105},
abstract = {The Digits team (Matt Burton, Matthew J. Lavin, Jessica Otis, and Scott B. Weingart) convened around the question of how we might share, preserve, and legitimize scholarship freed from the affordances of print. For the A.W. Mellon-funded Digits Planning Grant (2016-2018), the PIs had three goals:
Investigate the use of software containers for research in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.
Assess the infrastructural needs of digital humanists around publishing and preserving web-centric scholarship.
Gather a team of experts to guide the above activities and plan how they might inform a beneficial intervention into the scholarly ecosystem.
Through our investigation into the scholarly uses of containers, we discovered that the technical infrastructure needed to connect containers with digital publications is underdeveloped. We see potential for container technologies to facilitate existing digital scholarly publications and afford new forms of computational scholarship, but this process would first require a series of infrastructural bridges. The digital scholarship needs assessment we conducted, as well as our advisory board meetings, made it clear that a targeted technological intervention alone would not be enough to welcome web-first publications into the scholarly ecosystem; in-tandem cultural and institutional changes are also necessary.
The first and second of our three tasks resulted in the two reports that comprise this article. The first report, A New Unit of Publication: The potential of software containers for digital scholarship, involved an environmental and secondary source scan of activities at the intersection containerization and scholarship. The second report, New Scholarship in the Digital Age: Making, publishing, maintaining, and preserving non-traditional scholarly objects, summarizes 75 interviews of scholars, technicians, publishers, and others who work towards the publication of digital-first scholarship.},
language = {en},
number = {1},
urldate = {2022-01-05},
journal = {Journal of Electronic Publishing},
author = {Burton, Matt and Lavin, Matthew J. and Otis, Jessica and Weingart, Scott B.},
year = {2019},
}
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