Summary of the book Digital Scholarship by Martin Weller. How technology is transforming publication

1. The Digital Scholar
how technology is transforming scholarly
practice
Martin Weller
creator: Gerald Louw

2. free open access book
Under Creative Commons License
htt://www.bloomsburyacademic.com/view/Digit
alScholar 9781849666275/bookba9781849666275.xnl

3. book published in different formats
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e-book
softcover
hardcover
iPad read PDF

4. book an example of digital scholarship
change in publishing
change in knowledge dissemination

5. Weller (2011)
scholarly practice is seeing changes effected
by the adoption and implementation of new
technologies

6. Chapter 1 - 14
Chapter 1
trilogy: digital, network, openness.
transformation
Weller(2011, 4) people become less defined
by institution and more by the online identity
they establish
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7. Chapters 2 - 4
Chapters 2 and 3
Not applicable to an academic library situation
Chapter 4
This chapter deals with scholarship and digital
scholarship
Boyer points stands out in this chapter

8. Weller (2011, 42 - 43)
Boyer includes the following aspects
discovery (new knowledge)
integration (interdisciplinary work)
application (applying of knowledge)
teaching (teaching aspect)
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9. Chapter 5
Is about research and new technologies
crowdsourcing comes to the front
inline with Boyer’s discovery
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has
Wikipedia-type approach
open approach to data gathering
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10. Chapters 6 - 8
Explain functions of Boyer in-depth
Chapters 9 - 12
are more scholarly content

11. Chapter 10 Network weather
Weller (2011, 114) metaphor adopted is one
by Adam Greenfield (2010) he termed
“network weather”
Weller (2011, 116) discussed a conference
and changes technology brings about.
twitter, live video streaming, blogging,
slideshare presentations, cloudworks

12. Chapter 11
Challenges in digital scholarship
Harley et al. (2010) “three legged stool”
research
teaching
service management
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13. Chapter 11 continuing
digital scholarship barriers
recognising digital scholarship
digital scholarship guidelines
delineate and communicate responsibilities
engage qualified reviewers
seek interdisciplinary advice
stay informed about accessibility issues
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14. Chapter 12
publishing
three concepts
digital
networked
open approach
open access publishing
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15. Chapter 13
avoiding extremism
superficiality (many Web 2.0 simple functions)
quality (appreciating different levels of quality)
brain damage
forgetting and identity
property and ownership

16. Chapter 14
digital resilience
reluctant to adopt new practices
engagement with technology
reflecting on changing scholarly practices
governmental and funding body level
discipline level

17. thank you