The webinar is aimed at presenting the peer-review certification service developed in the course of the HIRMEOS project.
Peer-review has a critical importance in scholarly communication, but both its practices and understanding exhibit a great deal of opacity. This is especially true for the peer review processes concerning open access monographs.
The HIRMEOS Open Book Peer-Review Certification service is a response to the increasing need for transparency and a better understanding of book peer review processes. The certification system, developed in collaboration with the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB), provides a convenient way to reassure authors and evaluation agencies about the scientific quality of Open Access books. In the webinar, we are going to introduce this service to different communities by bringing together the perspectives of scholars, publishers, developers and librarians. It will be showcased how the service aims to open the black box of peer review by:
- Identifying several characteristics of peer review as they specifically pertain to Open Access books,
- Creating standard definitions of the various ways in which book peer reviews are conducted, and
- Informing readers about the nature of review a published work has undergone.
Speakers: Eelco Ferwerda (DOAB, OAPEN), Pierre Mounier (OPERAS), Samuel Moore (King’s College London) and Isabella Meinecke (Hamburg University Press).
Chairs: Andrea Bertino (HIRMEOS, DARIAH-DE), Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra (DARIAH-EU).
How to register
Participation in the online webinar is free, only registration is required via Eventbrite (HERE). For questions about the registration process please contact: [email protected] or [email protected] .
Technical requirements for participation:
It is very easy to participate. The webinar will be conducted using Adobe Connect. To participate from your desk you need only access to the internet, speakers/headphones and an up-to-date web-browser with installed Adobe Flash Player.
After your registration you will receive a link to join the webinar.
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Andrea C. Bertino* and Heather StainesVersion 1 : Received: 13 May 2019 / Approved: 14 May 2019 / Online: 14 May 2019 (10:03:41 CEST)
How to cite: Bertino, A.C.; Staines, H. Enabling a Conversation Across Scholarly Monographs through Open Annotation. Preprints 2019, 2019050166 (doi: 10.20944/preprints201905.0166.v1). Bertino, A.C.; Staines, H. Enabling a Conversation Across Scholarly Monographs through Open Annotation. Preprints 2019, 2019050166 (doi: 10.20944/preprints201905.0166.v1).Copy
Abstract
The digital format opens up new possibilities for interaction with monographic publications. In particular, annotation tools make it possible to broaden the discussion on the content of a book, to suggest new ideas, to report errors or inaccuracies, and to conduct open peer reviews. However, this requires the support of the users who might not yet be familiar with the annotation of digital documents. This paper will give concrete examples and recommendations for exploiting the potential of annotation in academic research and teaching. After presenting the annotation tool of Hypothesis, the article focuses on its use in the context of HIRMEOS (High Integration of Research Monographs in the European Open Science Infrastructure), a project aimed to improve the Open Access digital monograph. The general line and the aims of a post-peer review experiment with the annotation tool, as well as its usage in didactic activities concerning monographic publications are presented and proposed as potential best practices for similar annotation activities.
]]>The HIRMEOS project is looking for members of the research community and scholarly communication experts who are interested in contributing to its workshop Shaping new Ways to Open the Book by participating as a discussant. The HIRMEOS consortium will cover travel and accommodation costs of the selected participants.
Applicants will be invited to share their feedback during the open floor discussion following these four presentations:
The workshop will take place on the 2nd of June in Marseille, France as a side event of the Elpub Conference. Applications are welcome from every member of the research community (scholars, librarians, publishers, other professionals) interested in the topic, but applications coming from early-career researchers and professionals are particularly encouraged.
Successful applicants will receive a grant to support their travel costs to Marseille and a maximum of 2 hotel nights. Travel grants will be assigned continuously until the extinction of the budget.
The registration to the Elpub Conference is not supported by the grant.
If you are interested, please send your CV and a short statement (no longer than 8-10 sentences) on how you could contribute as a discussant to our workshop as soon as possible to Andrea Bertino ([email protected]).
To better plan the organization, we kindly invite all those interested in attending the workshop to register here .
PROGRAM
from 9:15 Registration
9:45 – 10:00 Welcome
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 13:00 HIRMEOS contribution to enhancing Open Access monographs
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 15:30 Writing, publishing and reading Open Access monographs: perspectives from early-career researchers
- Marina Bantiou. Creating New Communities through Open Access
- Samuel Moore. No amount of Open Access will fix the broken job market: publication strategies for early-career Open Access advocates in the humanities
- Nelson Henrique da Silva Ferreira. Editing science: issues for achieving formal uniformity and academic criteria in the current context of Open Science
- Erzsébet Toth-Czifra, Towards an interactive map of Open Access book publishers
15:30 – 15:45 Coffee break
15:45 – 16:45 Open floor discussion on the present and future of Open Access monographs. Chair: Sofie Wennström
16:45 – 17:00 Conclusions
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PROGRAM
from 9:15 Registration
9:45 – 10:00 Welcome
10:00 – 11:30 HIRMEOS contribution to enhancing Open Access monographs
11:30 – 11:45 Coffee break
11:45 – 12:30 Keynote: Lucy Montgomery. Don’t talk to me about metrics! I write books!
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 15:30 Writing, publishing and reading Open Access monographs: perspectives from early-career researchers
- Marina Bantiou. Creating New Communities through Open Access
- Samuel Moore. No amount of Open Access will fix the broken job market: publication strategies for early-career Open Access advocates in the humanities
- Nelson Henrique da Silva Ferreira. Editing science: issues for achieving formal uniformity and academic criteria in the current context of Open Science
- Erzsébet Toth-Czifra, Towards an interactive map of Open Access book publishers
15:30 – 15:45 Coffee break
15:45 – 16:45 Open floor discussion on the present and future of Open Access monographs. Chair: Sofie Wennström
16:45 – 17:00 Conclusions
Contact:
For further information, don’t hesitate to contact us: Andrea Bertino ([email protected])
Within the HIRMEOS project, Göttingen University Press aims to add on its platform new services that allow for deeper interaction with Open Access monographs. The University Press is pleased to announce that now it is possible to annotate all its publications within the browser through the Hypothes.is annotation tool.
Hypothes.is, an established and widely used annotation framework adopted by several university presses and scholarly publishers, opens up new opportunities for innovative interaction with digital monographs. Scholars could, for example, set up dedicated “Calls for Annotation” to intensify discussion on a specific topic. An interesting example is the Call for Annotations from the Hypothesis Reading Group for James Brown’s Ethical Programs: https://web.hypothes.is/blog/call-for-annotations-hypothes-is-reading-group-for-james-browns-ethical-programs/
Teaching and learning can also benefit enormously from this technology; for example, it is possible to discuss course materials and other resources in private groups.
How to use the Hypothes.is tool on the Platform of Göttingen University Press
To annotate a publication of Göttingen University Press, you will find a “View and Annotate” link down at the page of each publication, under the tab “Details”. By clicking you will be redirected to a PDF-viewer, where the Hypothes.is tool is now integrated.
To post a comment, simply click on the arrow button on the right and log in to your existing Hypothes.is account or to create a new one. To register an account you need to enter your name and a valid email address. Using the service is free of charge. Once you are logged in, you can annotate, highlight text passages, reply to existing public annotations, and more. You decide whether you want to leave private notes for yourself or whether you want your comments to be readable by others too. To start group discussions you can set up a private group that lets you share comments solely within this group.
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HIRMEOS WORKSHOPS ON ANNOTATION AND METRICS FOR OPEN ACCESS MONOGRAPHS
The HIRMEOS project organizes two workshops on 10th and 11th January 2019 at INRIA in Paris:
- Why does Open Annotation matter? (10th Jan, 10:30-17:30)
- Metrics and Altmetrics for Open Access Monographs (11th Jan, 9:30-16:30)
The topics covered by these two events – annotation of scholarly works on the one hand and the collection of usage and impact metrics for Open Access digital monographs on the other – are closely linked. Remarks and comments, when made public, can be considered an indicator of resonance, influence and impact. Therefore, any service aimed at a bibliometric analysis of scholarly production must also pay attention to text annotations. To this aim, the HIRMEOS project is both implementing an online annotation tool and standardizing usage metrics and alternative metrics on its platforms.
Annotation tools help to expand scholarly content, make peer review more efficient and transparent, and promote community participation. We will focus during the first workshop – Why does Open Annotation matter? – on possible applications of the annotation service in scholarly research and teaching, scientific blogging and open peer review. We will start by considering some cultural-historical aspects of annotating texts. Afterwards, the hypothes.is tool for annotation of digital documents will be presented and it will be shown how it has been implemented and used on the digital platforms involved in the HIRMEOS project (OpenEdition Books, OAPEN Library, EKT ePublishing, Göttingen University Press, Ubiquity Press). We will then discuss specific usage scenarios and allow participants to get some practical experiences with the annotation of digital texts. To this aim, the participants will work in groups (please bring your own laptop!) and annotate different texts together. Afterwards we will discuss the experiences and try to formulate some general recommendations for the use of the annotation tool on digital monographs and other forms of texts.
The second workshop on 11th January – Metrics and Altmetrics for Open Access Monographs – will focus on the HIRMEOS service aimed at collecting and visualizing metrics and altmetric data for Open Access monographs in the humanities and social sciences. The first part of this workshop will be dedicated to presenting the implementation on the digital platforms involved in the HIRMEOS project and the technical challenges that were involved. Afterwards, together with scholars in the social sciences and humanities, digital platform providers, members of funding institutions and librarians, we will consider the reliability of the HIRMEOS metrics service and of other tools to measure resonance, influence and impact of scholarly publications. In this way, we want to critically discuss in which way metrics tools can contribute to an informed decision-making in research evaluation, publishing, and library management. The workshop will conclude by formulating some recommendations for the implementation of the metrics service on other digital platforms outside of the project.
Workshops Agenda & Presentations
Why does Open Annotation matter?
(10th Jan, 10:30-17:30)
From 10:30 Registration
11:00 – 11:15 Welcome & introduction
11:15 – 11:30 The HIRMEOS project (Andrea Bertino, Göttingen State and University Library ; Elisabeth Heinemann, Max Weber Foundation)
11:30 – 12:00 The tradition of annotation (Christian Jacob, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales )
12:00 – 12:30 The Hypothes.is tool for open annotation (Heather Staines, Hypothes.is)
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:00 The implementation of the HIRMEOS Annotation Service (Rowan Hatherley , Ubiquity Press)
14:00 – 15:00 Annotation usage scenarios
- 14:00 – 14:20 Annotation & Teaching (Micah Vandergrift, NCSU Library)
- 14:20 – 14:40 Annotation & Scientific Blogging (Mareike König, German Historical Institute Paris)
- 14:40 – 15:00 Annotation & Open Peer Review (Edit Gorogh, Göttingen State and University Library)
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 16:30 Working Groups on the annotation usage scenarios
16:30 – 17:30 Panel discussion: Feedback from the working groups and closing remarks (Chair: Pierre Mounier, Open Edition)
Metrics and Altmetrics for Open Access Monographs
(11th Jan, 9:30-16:30)
From 9:00 Registration
9:30 – 9:45 Introduction: Annotations in the HIRMEOS Metrics Service (Rowan Hatherley and Tom Mowlam, Ubiquity Press)
9:45 – 10:15 The HIRMEOS Metrics Service (Javier Arias, Open Book Publishers)
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 12:25 Metrics and national evaluation cultures
- 10:45 – 11:10 Didier Torny (French National Centre for Scientific Research)
- 11:10 – 11:35 Ioana Galleron (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)
- 11:35 – 12:00 Gernot Deinzer (University Library of Regensburg)
- 12:00 – 12:25 Elena Giglia (Università degli Studi di Torino)
12:25 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:10 The impact of metrics on scholarly publishers, research organisations and libraries
- 13:30 – 13:55 Rupert Gatti (Open Book Publishers)
- 13:55 – 14:20 Tom Mowlam (Ubiquity Press)
- 14:20 – 14.45 Tina Rudersdorf (Max Weber Foundation)
- 14:45 – 15:10 Charles Watkinson (University of Michigan Library)
15:10 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 16:30 Roundtable and closing remarks: metrics and the scholarly monograph (Chair: Laurent Romary, INRIA)
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Tuesday, 04 September 2018, 9:30-17:00
Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
Vortragsraum, SUB historical Building
Papendieck 14
37073 Göttingen
https://goo.gl/maps/yWCuqdhtXNy
In the course of the project, different workshops are being organized in order to present and discuss the implementation of services and tools for digital monographs on Open Access publishing platforms. After the workshop at the University of Turin about the role of identifiers in research evaluation, now we want to discuss the possible application of entity recognition to digital publishing.
Entity-fishing is a service that enables the automatic extraction of concepts via Wikidata, so that persons, locations, organizations etc. can be uniquely identified and disambiguated. The HIRMEOS partners have tested various applications of this service on their digital platforms and for a quick overview you can have a look at our factsheet.
The workshop is organized into two main parts. During the morning session, the entity-fishing service and its meaning for scholarly work will be presented. In the afternoon, after a short presentation of the last experimental implementations on our platforms, we will focus on practical issues related to other possible use scenarios of the HIRMEOS entity-fishing service. To this end, we plan a roundtable in which three proposals for new usages of this service on digital platforms will be discussed in detail, paying particular attention to technical aspects. In this way, it should be possible to find concrete solutions for the specific difficulties in implementing a certain use scenario and, more generally, to define guidelines for future applications of this service by publishers who are not directly involved in the HIRMEOS project.
This is the workshop agenda:
HIRMEOS WORKSHOP
Entity-Fishing for Digital Humanities and Scholarly Publishing
Göttingen, Papendieck 14, SUB historical building, Vortragsraum, 4th September 2018
9:30–9:45 Introduction (Margo Bargheer, SUB)
9:45–10:00 The HIRMEOS Project (Andrea Bertino, SUB)
10:00–10:40 Entity-fishing: from text to concepts and beyond (Luca Foppiano and Laurent Romary, INRIA-DARIAH-EU)
10:40–11:00 Coffee break
11:00–11:45 Entity-fishing: Demo and Questions (Luca Foppiano and Laurent Romary, INRIA-DARIAH-EU)
11:50–12:30 Retrieving entities from publications in linguistics: Glottolog and Concepticon (Sebastian Nordhoff, LangSciPress)
12:30–13:40 Lunch
13:40–14:00 Entity-fishing service on the HIRMEOS platforms (Andrea Bertino, SUB)
14:00–14:15 Usage scenario I: Entity-fishing at ScholarLed (Javier Arias, Open Book Publishers)
14:15–14:30 Usage scenario II: Entity-fishing at Septentrio Academic Publishing (Aysa Ekanger, University Library of Tromsø)
14:30–14:45 Usage scenario III: Entity-fishing service for the Edition Open Access (Klaus Thoden, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
14:45–15:15 Coffee break
15:15–16:30 Roundtable on new usage scenarios. (Moderator: Stefanie Mühlhausen, SUB)
16:30–17:00 Conclusion. Overview and guidelines for service implementation (Margo Bargheer, SUB)
As space is limited, please register prior to the workshop: https://goo.gl/forms/3EAqo0w00r74bTL63
Please feel free to distribute this invitation to everyone who might be interested.
We are looking forward to seeing you soon,
The HIRMEOS consortium
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