enhanced publications eHumanities Group proposal

Proposal SURF Call Enhanced Publication, VKS / KNAW e-Humanities Group

Enhancing Scholarly Publishing in the Humanities and
Social Sciences:
Innovation through Hybrid Forms of Publication

Revised proposal

Submitted to:
SURFfoundation
Platform ICT en Onderzoek
t.a.v. John Doove
Postbus 2290
3500 GG Utrecht

Coordinating institution:
KNAW e-Humanities Group
[Successor to the Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences (VKS),
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, KNAW]
Cruquiusweg 31
1019 AT Amsterdam, NL
T: +3120 8500470
F: +3120 8500271

Project coordinator:
Dr. Nicholas W. Jankowski
Visiting Fellow, VKS / KNAW e-Humanities Group

nick.jankowski@vks.knaw.nl

Date of Revised Submission: 10 January 2011

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Summary

This is a revised version of the proposal for enhanced publications submitted to the
SURFfoundation on 22 November 2010. This version has been extensively modified based
on the comments made by the SURFfoundation commission and by members of the KNAW
e-Humanities Group. The main comments from the SURFfoundation commission are
included in Appendix 1, together with an overview of how these comments have been
addressed in this version of the proposal.1

The first objective of this project is to develop hybrid forms of publications. These will
consist of Web sites to complement four books originally or currently being prepared as
printed volumes for commercial and university-based publishers. These Web sites will
contain a broad range of features that are designed to enhance the printed versions of
these books with regard to:
 supplementary resources (e.g., links, blogs, chapter appendices, author profiles);
 chapter visualizations (e.g., animations, figures, tables) in color;
 hyperlinks, both internal and external to the book texts;
 author updating of site materials;
 search features.
A provisional template with most of these Web site features is already available. The
various functionalities will be explored and tested so that, once finalized, the template will
serve as the general framework for each of the Web sites complementing the printed
versions of the books.

The second objective is to develop a database allowing for aggregation of content
attributes and associations across the individual book Web sites, such that topical
relationships, intellectual underpinnings, and contextual factors can be made explicit.
Together with a user interface, this aggregation database and related features will support
ad-hoc queries and real-time visualizations of discursive threads on the Web sites.
Fundamental to this approach is a focus on Web-based texts as dynamic and evolving
discourses rather than completed works to be archived. While there is significant value in
archiving Web-based texts and related repositories of scholarly work, this aspect is not
accentuated. Instead, we focus on engagement with emerging new scholarly practices,
particularly in the realm of informal scholarly communication. Given this, we aim to
introduce book-related texts, and associated materials, as digital proxies in the realm of
scholarship. It is common to find a wide variety of book reviews and associated
commentary on the Web. However, it is still uncommon to find the full book content on the
Web. From this perspective, scholarly work published in book format can be viewed as a
less influential contribution to Web-based discourses. This objective of the proposal is
designed to help rebalance this situation. The rationale underlying this objective is further
elaborated in Section 2, and in the specific activities are noted in Work Package 5.

The third objective of the project is to disseminate the results of the experiences in
preparing enhanced publications. This objective involves sharing experiences through the
networks of the host institution and participating staff, and with the readership of the
enhanced publications. This sharing will occur at various moments, but most concretely

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In preparation of this revised version we have benefited greatly by interventions from colleagues at
the KNAW e-Humanities Group, and staff members of the SURFfoundation and DANS. Without
naming these persons directly, we wish to express our appreciation for their remarks and
suggestions.

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during two panels planned for an upcoming symposium organized by the Oxford Internet
Institute (OII) and a workshop to be proposed for the Association of Internet Researchers
(AoIR) conference. An anticipated result of one of the OII panels is a journal theme issue on
scholarly publishing, and the participants in this project will be preparing contributions to
that issue. This objective also involves extending previous instructional experiences (e.g.,
workshops, individual tutoring) in the use of VKS Web sites by institution personnel to a
new target group: book editors and authors. One of the deliverables related to this
objective will be Web-based instructional materials and a related video intended for this
target group, particularly for editors and authors active in the humanities and social
sciences. This material is designed to assist other scholars in preparing Web sites to
complement traditionally published scholarly books, and constitutes the basis for the
workshop to be proposed for the AoIR conference.

The project is to begin on 19 January 2010 and is to be completed five months later on 31
June 2010. Four scholars affiliated with the VKS / KNAW e-Humanities Group are
collaborating in this project:
 Dr. Nicholas W. Jankowski, Visiting Fellow, Virtual Knowledge Studio for the
Humanities and Social Sciences (VKS / KNAW e-Humanities Group)
 Dr. Anne Beaulieu, Senior Research Fellow, Virtual Knowledge Studio for the
 Clifford Tatum, Digital Scholarship Fellow, Virtual Knowledge Studio for the
 Dr. Andrea Scharnhorst, Senior Research Fellow, Virtual Knowledge Studio for the
Humanities and Social Sciences (DANS/ VKS / KNAW e-Humanities Group); Scientific
Coordinator Computational Humanities Programme.

In addition, the editors of three book-length anthologies and the author of one university-
level textbook are involved in the project. These persons and books are noted below in
relation to the work packages described in this proposal; Appendix 2 contains short
descriptions of each book:
 Work Package 1: book editor, Nicholas W. Jankowski, e-Research: Transformation in
Scholarly Practice (published by Routledge, 2009).
 Work Package 2: book editors, Paul Wouters, Anne Beaulieu, Andrea Scharnhorst,
and Sally Wyatt, Virtual Knowledge (submission to MIT Press, Nov. 2010)
 Work Package 3: book author, Nicholas W. Jankowski, Digital Media: Concepts &
Issues, Research & Resources, (under contract with Polity Press, part of Digital
Media and Society series, forthcoming 2011)
 Work Package 4: book editors: David Park, Nicholas W. Jankowski, & Steve Jones,
The Long History of New Media: Technology, Historiography, and Newness
Contextualized (under contract with Peter Lang, part of Digital Formations series,
forthcoming 2011).

The KNAW e-Humanities Group, the successor to the Virtual Knowledge Studio (VKS) as of 1
January 2011, is serving as coordinating institution and providing expertise for the
construction of Web sites to complement the above-mentioned books. Inasmuch as this
proposal was initiated during the period when the VKS was operational, the name has been
included in the identifier of host institution: VKS / KNAW e-Humanities Group.

The main results of this project will constitute Web sites complementing the four scholarly
book publications. Similarities in Web site functions being developed allow for utilization of
a basic site template prepared with open source WordPress software and further refined by

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third-party software designers. These Web sites will contain a wide range of functions
facilitating information access, searching and retrieving data, and exchanging information
and communicating with other scholars.

In addition to these Web sites, practitioner-oriented Web-based instructional materials are
planned, which will serve as illustrations for preparing enhanced publications. Each of the
books will be represented in this document with short video clips involving book editors
and authors describing the complementing sites. These instructional materials are
described in Work Package 6, which addresses project dissemination more generally.

The results of this project are to be disseminated through:
 networks of scholars directly affiliated with the book publications for which
complementing Web sites are developed;
 international networks of institutions and scholars maintained by the KNAW e-
Humanities Group;
 conference papers and presentations to be revised for consideration in a journal
theme issue;
 presentation and discussion of the instructional materials at a conference
workshop.

1. Project Objectives
The central objective of this project is to contribute to and increase awareness and
utilization of the features and functions available in a Web environment for traditionally
prepared and printed scholarly books in the humanities and social sciences. In some
academic disciplines, particularly in the natural sciences, enhanced publications have
reached an advanced stage of development, but in the humanities and social sciences such
initiatives are fewer and more limited. See Appendix 3 for a definitional text and panorama
of initiatives in developing enhanced publications. This appendix also includes description of
a model of enhanced publications and tools prepared by the SURFfoundation, and a list of
additional resources related to enhanced publications. These materials have been consulted
during preparation of this revised version of the SURFfoundation proposal and will be
studied in more detail during the course of the project. The Web sites will incorporate
various tools developed in previous SURFfoundation enhanced publication projects, in pan-
European initiatives such as ESCAPE and DRIVER, and in previous Web sites prepared by
VKS. Selection of suitable tools will take place during the course of the project.

This project is directed at publications in the humanities and social sciences, and involves
three sets of activities:
1. Preparation of Web sites complementing a series of four book publications initially
and primarily prepared as printed books (to be) published by commercial or
university-based publishers;
2. Incorporation of specially-designed tools to facilitate intertextuality between
materials on the book Web sites (e.g., chapter texts and supplementary materials)
and the printed books;
3. Dissemination of the results of the project through a range of conference events,
journal articles, and instructional materials.
The first activity, preparation of Web sites to complement four traditionally published
books, involves development of those Web sites making use of a template already initiated
and nearly completed by VKS. This template makes use of WordPress as platform for

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construction of Web sites. VKS has developed considerable experience using this platform. A
total of 31 Web sites have been developed for VKS-related activities, including the general
Web site for the host institution (VKS / KNAW e-Humanities Group), sites for specific
projects (e.g., e-Research Ethics), and conference events (e.g., ‘CYSWIK’). Screen shots of
the Web sites of some of these projects are included in Appendix 5. Various applications
have been incorporated into these sites so as to increase functionality. For example, we will
customize a plug-in previously developed at the VKS that facilitates management of
bibliographic data in the WordPress environment. One particular application relevant to this
proposal is adaption of a review annotation tool developed by MediaCommons, which will
be utilized in illustrative fashion on some of the book Web sites. A second additional
application to be incorporated on these sites prepared on the WordPress platform is a
search function for information about other relevant publications, a tool utilizing Google
Scholar.

The specific Web site functionalities to be implemented on the Web sites are detailed in the
work packages below. Generally speaking, these functionalities relate to three areas: (1)
accessibility and interlinking of information, (2) provision of supplementary resources, and
(3) exchange and communicative functions (e.g., commenting on texts, sharing information,
interacting between authors and readers). The staggered completion of each book site will
enable learning within the framework of the project, since each completed project can
inform the further development of the others. This will result in increased quality and
sophistication in the preparation of subsequent sites.

The second activity augments basic WordPress functionality with the development of
special plug-ins designed to manage aggregation of content across the book Web sites and
display of intertextual discourses. To accomplish this, we develop a database to facilitate
aggregation of content attributes and associations across the individual book Web sites,
such that topical relationships, intellectual underpinnings, and contextual factors can be
made explicit. Together with a user interface, this aggregation database and related
features will support ad-hoc queries and real-time visualizations of discursive threads that
traverse the participant Web sites. The purpose of this functionality is to intensify
intertextuality among related Web-based texts, which is simultaneously intertextual within
the broader domain of the World Wide Web. Database development will be accomplished
using an open source platform (WordPress) and with the creation of open source plugins
that extend the functionality of WordPress. The notion of intertextuality is elaborated in
the next section, Project Rationale, and the development work is described in Work
Package 5.

The third activity, dissemination of project results, brings together a series of presentations
and discussions of scholarly communication / publishing. Two conference panel sessions are
planned; see Appendix 7 for details. An objective of these panels involves preparation of a
theme issue on scholarly publishing, of which enhanced publishing is considered a specific
topic. This theme issue may be limited to a single journal of which the project coordinator is
co-editor, New Media & Society, but may also be extended to a second, open access journal
title, thereby providing a range of functionalities and opportunities not present in a
traditional journal owned by a commercial publisher. This activity also involves preparation
of instructional materials that build on existing documentation developed for VKS staff to
update Web site pages. This material, essentially a Web-based tutorial on how to modify
Web site pages prepared within the WordPress platform, is to be revised in such a manner
that it will be suitable for a new target group: authors and editors of the books involved in
this project. This component strives to increase the dynamic quality of the book Web sites

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(the sites can be easily updated by persons directly involved in a book project) and to
contribute to a more horizontal organizational structure, reducing dependence on Web
specialists and increasing reliance on input from those directly involved in a specific
publication. We plan to test these instructional materials during a workshop at the annual
conference of the Association of Internet Researchers; the proposal for this workshop will
be one of the deliverables of Work Package 6.

2. Project Rationale and Organization

Rationale
Exploration of alternative modes of scholarly communication, including preparation of
enhanced publications, has been of concern among members of the Virtual Knowledge
Studio (VKS) since inception of this initiative of the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences
(KNAW) a half-decade ago. VKS staff and fellows, along with scholars involved in the newly
formed e-Humanities Group of the KNAW, have contributed to alternative modes of
scholarly communication in addition to traditional and conventional forms. The collection of
book-length manuscripts comprising the thrust of this proposal offers opportunity to extend
the boundaries through development of Web sites to complement these manuscripts being
released by established publishers of scholarship. Although the proposed Web features for
these enhanced publications may seem limited by practitioners in disciplines such as
biology,2 the features proposed are at the forefront of what is presently being considered
across the humanities and social sciences. Our conviction is that the proposed Web sites to
complement traditionally printed and published books are pioneering in the humanities and
social sciences.3 The Web sites focus on the co-creation of intertextual discourses, on
incorporation of new media into traditional forms of publishing, on notions of emergent
learning, and on user-centered approaches to development of Web environments.

Through hyperlinking, a common discursive practice in Web-based scholarly
communication, documents, collections of documents, and related audio and visual
resources are structured across the Web. This textured connectivity of scholarly discourse is
created with hyperlinking, both by human and machine (e.g., databases) actors. Unlike
traditional citations in printed text, the immediacy of hyperlinks facilitates the construction
of intertextual discourses, which are dynamic in both production and consumption. A text
published on the Web and in compliance with open Web standards can be commented on
by others, updated at a later time, and reacted to in other blogs that link back to the text.
The potential for response is both immediate and enduring. This situation implies that
meaning is more fluid in the co-construction of hyperlinked discourses when the potential

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For illustrations in the radical transformation of biology journals, see Figure 4.8 in Appendix 4
showing accentuation on visualizations; see Figure 4.9 for a video that elaborates the changes in Cell
Press biology journals. A few of these functionalities are being incorporated into social science
journals owned by houses such as SAGE Publications. In June 2010 SAGE introduced a range of
functionalities (e.g., pop-up abstracts and references) in the articles of its 500-plus journals that are
available on the site SAGE Journals Online (SJO).
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Although the proposed work in this document is pioneering, it would be misleading to claim that no
initiatives have been undertaken in the humanities and social sciences regarding enhanced
publication. One of the most far-reaching initiatives in the humanities is reflected in The Mark Twain
Papers & Project undertaken by the University of California Press. Closer to home, the Van Gogh
Letters Project, involving the Van Gogh Museum and the KNAW Huygens Institute, is similarly
pioneering. We intend to examine these and other initiatives in more detail during the course of this
project.

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for new contributions can develop over time. Consumption of hyperlinked discourses is also
influenced by this dynamic: in the opportunities to follow unique paths of hyperlinks in a
particular text, and in the potential for additions and changes over time.

A key activity is development of a central database to make connections between the Web
sites of the four books. In addition to development of individual book Web sites, this project
provides opportunity to develop a multi-book Web site with book-specific entrances. The
focus here is on the possibilities for creating a knowledge node from the contributing books.
Each book will be situated at a top-level (book title and topic). At the intermediate level,
contextual information is provided such as (a) connections to contributing authors and
related work from these authors, (b) connections to related work at other institutes and
departments, and (c) connections through organization and/or searching features that
reveal associative relationships across book contributions. It is important to stress the
illustrative nature of this initiative because of the limited availability of the texts from the
four books: sample chapters, chapter abstracts, authors' biographical sketches, reference
lists, and indices. The enhancement from this activity occurs at three levels of
interconnectivity: at the level of each individual book Web site, at the level of the collection
of book Web sites, and at the level of the Web itself. Intensifying intertextual connections
at the book and collection levels is based on aggregation functionality. As this functionality
will be developed in compliance with open Web standards, the intertextual structure
created increases visibility of book content in specialized (and popular) search engines.

With the addition of relevant contextual materials, the aim is to make visible relevant
knowledge scaffoldings associated with each book. As this component is planned to
continue beyond the end of the project, the topical focus of such a network would evolve.
Through the addition of books, another expected outcome is the emergence of thematic
clusters within the collection. Visibility of these sorts of relationships across books may also
be of interest to publishers, and this point will be accentuated in the various dissemination
activities and, most concretely, in a proposal to a publisher of scholarly monographs in
media and communication studies. This proposal will be one of the deliverables of Work
Package 5.

Development of the database will occur once the book Web sites are underway. Rather than
designing the database first to ensure that content is formatted appropriately, we will
simultaneously design both the Web sites and the central database to be used on the
WordPress CMS platform.

The editors and contributors to the volumes noted in this proposal represent scholars in the
fields of communication and media studies, sociology, law, cultural studies, Internet and
new media studies, science and technology studies, history, anthropology, computer
science, and political science. This diversity is advantageous in exposing a wide range of
scholars in these disciplines to the possibilities and challenges of enhancing scholarly
publications.

Although it is difficult to assess the size or long-term effect that the proposed project for
enhanced publications may have on members of the above disciplines, a safe observation is
that the target group is very broad and international in scope. Furthermore, with those
publications that have instructional objectives, students are exposed to new forms of
learning materials. Within the context of Work Package 6, this project intends to contribute
to both showcases of enhanced publications and to development of instructional materials
suitable for other scholars to prepare their work in a similar manner. This symbiosis of

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content and ‘how-to’ is likely to be especially convincing to the intended audience since it
links demonstration and instruction in a context relevant for these scholars.

Restrictions & Limitations
The activities in this proposal are limited to a few publications, but the books selected are
typical of the kind of scholarly monographs presently being prepared in the humanities and
social sciences. Through the contacts of the scholars involved it is anticipated that
connections will develop with other, similar initiatives elsewhere in the world. It is
particularly anticipated that contacts with the publishing houses of the books selected for
this project will extend awareness and increase contacts.

It is important to address here the uncertainty related to acquiring access to the texts for all
four books. Each of the books is in a different stage of development: one has already been
published, the manuscripts of two have recently been submitted to the respective
publishers, and the manuscript for the fourth is still being completed. This aspect reflects,
from one perspective, a limitation as to what may be achieved regarding Web availability of
full book texts. From another perspective, however, it reflects opportunity to engage in
negotiation and development of enhanced publications during different stages of
completion with different commercial and university-based publishers of scholarly texts.
From this perspective, this project will be a potentially rich learning experience for all
involved: editors, authors, and publishers.

To emphasize the central objective, this project involves publication of Web-based materials
as complementing printed books, termed a hybrid form of publication in the title of this
document. Given copyright, it may not be possible to publish all of the material contained in
the printed books in an online environment. Although the SURFfoundation commission
assessing proposals for enhanced publications, ‘strongly recommended’ dual publication of
book texts and complementing Web sites, such arrangements can only be achieved through
negotiation with the copyright holders. We are optimistic that some materials in the four
book projects will appear in a Web-based venue and will constitute a critical mass. However,
we are not able to establish what and how much text of the books will be made available
prior to negotiations with the respective publishers. As mentioned above, one of the
strengths of this proposal is the manner in which preparation of Web sites for the four book
projects is staggered. This will give us opportunity to demonstrate the actual potential of
enriched publications. As we engage each publisher subsequently, we will be able to
elaborate the concrete steps already taken, which may be a persuasive manner to secure
cooperation. Although linking of materials is facilitated when all materials are on the Web,
in the event this is not always possible alternate forms of linking will be explored, such as
use of QR tabs.

Project organization
This proposal for enhanced publications is being undertaken by scholars affiliated with the
Virtual Knowledge Studio (VKS) and, as of 1 January 2011, with the new organizational unit
known as the KNAW e-Humanities Group. As general objective, the VKS / KNAW e-
Humanities Group aims to support researchers in the humanities and social sciences in the
Netherlands in the creation of new scholarly practices, and to stimulate reflection on e-
research. A core feature of the work of this KNAW unit is the integration of analysis and
design in close cooperation between social scientists, humanities researchers, information
technology experts, and information scientists. This integrated approach provides insight
into how e-research can contribute to new research questions and methods in the
humanities and social sciences. A logical extension of this approach implies how enhanced

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publishing can facilitate scholarly presentation and discourse of research findings. Further
background and an overview of projects in which the VKS / KNAW e-Humanities Group is
engaged can be found on the VKS Web site and the Web site of the KNAW e-Humanities
Group.

Project coordinator
Dr. Nicholas W. Jankowski was a Visiting Fellow at the Virtual Knowledge Studio for the
Humanities and Social Sciences (VKS) and continues in the same capacity at the KNAW e-
Humanities Group. In 1997 he initiated and co-edits the journal New Media & Society
(NM&S). In that capacity he closely follows developments in scholarly publishing, together
with more general transformations in scholarship in the social sciences, frequently labeled
‘e-science’ and ‘e-research’. This interest resulted in his editing a journal theme issue
(JCMC) on e-science and editing a book on e-research (Routledge, 2009), both of which
chart contemporary developments in scholarship. He contributes regularly to conferences
and seminars on scholarly publishing, including a keynote address to the Association of
Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP, September 2009), a panel at a
conference of the Association of Internet Researchers on digital scholarship (IR11
Roundtable, October 2010), and an invited lecture at the University of Tampere, Finland, on
scholarship in the digital age (slides from CORE lecture, November 2010).

Project participants
In addition to the project coordinator, three persons affiliated with VKS / KNAW e-
Humanities Group are responsible for project activities: Dr. Anne Beaulieu, Senior Research
Fellow and VKS Deputy Program Leader, Clifford Tatum, Digital Scholarship Fellow, and Dr.
Andrea Scharnhorst, DANS, KNAW e-Humanities Group, and Scientific coordinator of the
Computational Humanities Programme.

Beaulieu has extensive experience in using new media for communicating outcomes of
research, as editor of Web-based journal issues (e.g., JCMC, Forum Qualitative Research)
and as developer of blogs (VKS Ethnography, Network Realism). In her past and present
research, she has been particularly committed to the use of digital visual material for the
communication of research, and this aspect will figure prominently in the current project.

Tatum is a designer and developer of Web-based digital scholarship platforms. Recent
projects at the Virtual Knowledge Studio are aimed at increasing visibility of research
practice as it happens in the field (VKS Fieldnotes), facilitating contributions to a conference
roundtable discussion (IR-11 Digital Scholarship), facilitating community co-creation of a
publishable text (eResearch Ethics), and facilitating collaborative learning (UW Honors in
Amsterdam). Tatum’s research examines the role of openness in technology-mediated
collaboration.

Scharnhorst has a background in physics and philosophy of science. Her work concentrates
on the transfer of concepts and methods from physics to social sciences. In this context she
has developed websites for on-line simulations (EVOLINO - (together with
Beaulieu/Hüsing/Ebeling); multi-functional websites for workshops (see
http://mod_know.virtualknowledgestudio.nl/; http://modelling-
science.simshelf.virtualknowledgestudio.nl/) and CMS for research documentation
(http://simshelf2.virtualknowledgestudio.nl/).

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3. Activity Planning
Preparation of the Web sites complementing the four books involves a number of common
tasks:
 Negotiations with book publishers regarding content acquisition and preparation;
 Communication and coordination with book editors and authors;
 Domain management and hosting;
 Basic Web site setup: layout, graphics, info architecture, security, syndication,
and search engine optimization;
 Insertion of book content to Web sites: intro, sample chapter, TOC, chapter
abstracts, reference list(s), word and name indices, links to publisher and purchase
opportunities;
 Author profiles: bio, image, institution, relevant publications;
 Integration of supplemental content related to book: conference presentations,
videos, teaching materials.

Special Web site features are unique to the book Virtual Knowledge, which is elaborated in
Work Package 2. Inclusion of these features accounts for the slightly larger budgetary
allowance noted in the above overview table. These features are:
 Video introductions for each chapter (authors);
 Video introduction to the book, presented by book editors;
 Chapters developed as individual, author-managed spaces.

Regarding evaluation, the activities related to each Work Package are examined at
completion of the Web sites. The overall project is evaluated at the end of the proposal
period.

Work Packages
This project consists of six work packages: one for each of the four enhanced book
publications, one for the project Web site and aggregated database’ and one for
dissemination of materials. Because the objectives, activities, deliverables, and evaluation
are nearly identical for the four enhanced book publications, there is overlap in the
presentation of this information. The time plan and budget, however, are different for each
book and this is reflected in the separate work packages.

Work Package 1: Web site complementing book: e-Research: Transformation in Scholarly
Practice.

Objective: Completion of Web site complementing e-Research book.

Responsibility: Project coordinator Jankowski is primarily responsible for this work
package. He will work closely with project participant Clifford Tatum.

Activities: As previously mentioned, work has already been initiated to prepare a
complementing Web site for the e-Research book, published in 2009. This work
resulted in a preliminary version of the site, available here (see also Figure 4.1 in
Appendix 4 showing a screen shot of the opening page of the site), which includes
most of the following features:
 Book-related materials: description of book, table of contents, chapter abstracts,
tables and figures from chapters, compilation of references, and publisher information;

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 Profiles of contributors: photos and bios of authors and editor;
 Supplementary resources: lists of institutions, publications, videos, and
presentations related to e-research (see Figures 4.6 and 4.7 in Appendix 4);
 Topic-related blogs: group blog for authors of the book, individual blogs by book
authors, and other blogs relevant to the themes in the book. Although several chapter
authors already are practitioners of blogging in an academic environment, we do not
anticipate that all authors will contribute to this component of the site. We do
anticipate, however, sufficient frequency and linking of postings from other venues to
merit inclusion of this functionality.

The following features are scheduled for completion as part of this proposal:
 Interlinking index terms with book text;
 Figures and tables reproduced on Web site; figures in color;
 Chapter references with hyperlinks and an overall bibliography for book;
 Author search via Google Scholar for other publications by author (see Figure 4.3 in
Appendix 4);
 Key word search for similar publications based on chapter.

In addition, conditional on publisher agreement, the full text of the book chapters will
be made available in pdf and html formats on the Web site. Negotiations have been
initiated with the publisher regarding such availability. Since the book was published
almost three years ago, we anticipate that there will be no commercial reservation in
making the texts available on a publically accessible Web site. If approval is granted,
the chapters will be placed on the site as both pdf and html files. Such availability will
provide the basis for four additional features of enhanced publication:
 Search facility through chapter texts;
 Hyperlinks embedded in chapters;
 Pop-up figures and tables in chapters (see Figures 4.2 and 4.8 in Appendix 4 for
illustrations);
 Reference pop-ups in html version of chapter text (see Figure 4.3 in Appendix 4).

In the event negotiations with the publisher are not successful in acquiring permission
to include full text files of the book chapters, the Web site will provide more limited
versions of these features as follows:
 Search facility through book index with listing of page numbers where search terms
appear in chapters;
 Lists of hyperlinks in activated form as found in book chapters.

Deliverable: Web site complementing e-Research book.

Time plan & activities: The Web site will be completed by 11 February. Work is related
to the above-mentioned activities.

Dissemination: Announcement of completion to contributing authors, to publisher, and
to scholars involved in the VKS / KNAW e-Humanities networks.

Work Package 2: Web site complementing the book Virtual Knowledge.

Objective: Web site complementing the book Virtual Knowledge.

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Responsibility: Project participants Beaulieu and Scharnhorst are primarily responsible
for this Work Package. They will work closely with the other book editors (Professors
Paul Wouters and Sally Wyatt) and with project participant Clifford Tatum.

Activities: The Web site template constructed in Work Package 1 that complements the
e-Research book is to serve as a template for the book Virtual Knowledge in Work
Package 2. The following features are to be included in this book Web site:
presentations related to e-research;
authors, and other blogs relevant to the themes in the book;
Appendix 4 for illustration);
 Key word search for similar publications based on chapter titles.

The manuscript for this book was submitted to the publisher in early December 2010.
Informal discussions with representatives of the publisher have been initiated
regarding preparation of a Web site to complement the printed version of the book. In
the next phase of discussions the possibility of having the full text of the book chapters
made available in pdf and html formats on the Web site will be raised. Since MIT Press,
the publisher to whom the book has been submitted has a reputation for innovation in
utilizing Web features and forms of online availability of book manuscripts and since
initial conversations were positive, we anticipate that the publisher will be amenable to
making the texts available on a publically accessible Web site. If approval is granted,
the chapters will be placed on the site as both pdf and html files. Such availability will
 ‘Hot’ hyperlinks embedded in chapters;
 Pop-up figures and tables in chapters (see Figure 4.2 in Appendix 4 for illustration);

In the event negotiations with the publisher are not successful in acquiring permission
to include full text files of the book chapters, the Web site will provide more limited
appear in chapters;

Deliverable: Web site complementing the book Virtual Knowledge.

Time plan & activities: The Web site will be completed by 6 May. Work is related to the
above-mentioned activities.

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Dissemination: Announcement of completion of Web site to contributing authors, to
publisher, and to scholars involved in the VKS / KNAW e-Humanities Group networks.
Furthermore, the widespread readership of the book – see detailed information in
Appendix 6 – will ensure further exposure to the possibilities of Web-enhanced books.

Work Package 3: Web site complementing book: The Long History of New Media:
Technology, Historiography, and Newness Contextualized

Objective: Completion of Web site complementing the book Long History of New
Media.

Responsibilities: Project coordinator Jankowski is primarily responsible for this work
package. He will work closely with the other book editors, Professors Steve Jones and
Dave Park, and with project participant Clifford Tatum.

e-Research book is to serve as a template for the book Long History of New Media in
this work package. The following features are to be included in this book Web site:
tables and figures from chapters, compilation of references, and publisher information.
 Key word search for similar publications based on chapter titles.

The manuscript for this book was submitted to the publisher mid-December 2010; the
manuscript is presently being prepared for publication and will be released by late May
2011. In January 2011 discussion will be initiated with a representative of the publisher
regarding preparation of a Web site to complement the printed version of the book.
This publisher, Peter Lang, has developed an extensive list of titles related to Internet
studies and new media, and the house may be willing to experiment in utilizing Web
features and forms of online availability of book manuscripts. If approval is granted, the
chapters will be placed on the site as both pdf and html files. Such availability will

In the event discussions with the publisher do not result in acquiring permission to
include full text files of the book chapters, the book Web site will provide more limited

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appear in chapters;

Deliverable: Web site complementing Long History of New Media book.


Dissemination: Announcement of completion of Web site to contributing authors, to
the book publisher, to scholars involved in the VKS / KNAW e-Humanities Group
networks, and to the networks of the communication historians contributing to the
volume.

Work Package 4: Web site complementing book: Digital Media: Concepts & Issues, Research
& Resources.

Objective: Completion of Web site complementing the book Digital Media.

Responsibility: Project coordinator Jankowski is primarily responsible for this Work
Package. He will work closely with project participant Clifford Tatum.

e-Research book is to serve as a template for the book Digital Media in this work
package. The following features are to be included in this book Web site:
 Key word search for similar publications based on chapters.

The manuscript for this book is scheduled to be submitted to the publisher in April
2011. Informal discussions with representatives of the publisher have been initiated
regarding preparation of a Web site to complement the printed version of the book. In
the next phase of discussions the possibility of having the full text of the book chapters
available in pdf and html formats on the Web site will be considered. Since the
publisher with which the book is under contract, Polity Press, has developed an
innovative series on digital media and has also prepared its own Web portal for the
titles in the series, it is anticipated that the publisher will be amenable to making some
texts available on a publically accessible Web site. If approval is granted, the chapters
will be placed on the site as both pdf and html files. Such availability will provide the
basis for four additional features of enhanced publication:

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In the event discussions with the publisher do not result in permission to include full
text files of the book chapters, the Web site will provide more limited versions of these
features as follows:
appear in chapters;

Deliverable: Web site complementing Digital Media book.


Dissemination: announcement of completion of Web site to contributing authors, to
publisher, and to scholars involved in the VKS / KNAW e-Humanities Group networks.

Work Package 5: Project Database

Objective: Develop a central database to facilitate interconnections between and
among the initial books and with the possibility to add books over time. While ensuring
that the individual book Web sites remain the primary entryway to the book, the
database serves to make interconnections more explicit. As book Web sites typically
provide only a summary of the full book content, this feature of the project is an effort
to make visible inter-book relationships such that more of the knowledge context is
made explicit and consumable. In this way, book consumers can benefit from individual
books being situated within a larger discourse and the book publishers would stand to
benefit from a potential increase in traffic to the individual books.

Responsibilities: Clifford Tatum is responsible for preparation of this work package; he
will confer as necessary with the other project participants.

Activities: The following activities are central to this work package:
 Make index/bibliography data available in the individual book sites via open
source standard (e.g., RSS/Atom).
 Create an aggregation plug-in to retrieve index/bibliography data from individual
book sites. Based on characteristics of the data, the aggregation plug-in may cache data
into a backend database for further data processing.
 Implement user interface to interact with the aggregated data. Central to this
interface is navigation between the central site and individual book sites.
 Facilitate export of database content to a RDF/XML formatted document. Native
WordPress functionality allows for export to XML format. This activity is specifically
aimed at exporting ad-hoc query data from our aggregation database.

Deliverable: This work package is to deliver a portal-style Web site for all four books
and an aggregation database containing the objects related to each book. Once the
portal-style site has been prepared, a short proposal will be prepared and shared with
a number of publishers have titles in the general area of media and communication

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studies. The project coordinator has contacts with these publishers and will initiate the
discussions with representatives.

Time plan & activities: The portal Web site and aggregation database will be completed
by 31 May 2011.

Work Package 6: Project Dissemination

Objective: The objective of this work package, Project Dissemination, is to make
scholars and publishers aware of our initiatives to enhance traditionally prepared book
publications. Through the journal articles, panel discussions, instructional materials
and conference workshop we hope others will consider the tools and procedures with
which we have experimented in this project.

Responsibility: Each project participant will contribute materials related to the other
work packages related to dissemination; Jankowski will coordinate collection of the
material and preparation of journal theme issues. Tatum is primarily responsible for
preparation of the instructional materials of this work package. He will collaborate with
the other project participants, Beaulieu, Jankowski, and Scharnhorst, about specific
details in the instructional materials. All project participants will be involved in panel
presentations and workshop instruction.

Activities: dissemination of materials related to this project is concentrated around: (1)
papers for conference panels, (2) preparation of articles for journal publication, and (3)
preparation of instructional materials. Proposals for two conference panels have been
submitted and we anticipate hearing whether these have been accepted for the events
by February 2011. Both panels provide present and reflect on facets of this project. The
papers for these panels can be considered candidate manuscripts for the journal theme
issue (the proposal for that theme issue is one of the deliverables of this work
package). Finally, a series of activities regarding project dissemination relate to
preparation of the instructional materials; these activities include:
 Web-based tutorial to include instructions on:
o Introduction to the workspace
o Adding or editing a text
o Adding and editing bibliographic content
o Adding images or uploading file attachment
o Posting to a collaborative blog
 WordPress templates for creating a new book Web site:
o Basic content layout with supplemental plug-ins
o Reference management plug-in
o Author profile template
 Video Production: produce an instructional video intended for editors and authors
active in the humanities and social sciences:
o Filming
o develop graphic aids
o film editing

Deliverables: The deliverables for this work package are directly related to the above-
mentioned three clusters of activities: conference panels, journal theme issue, and
instructional materials. Regarding the conference panels, preliminary drafts of papers

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will be prepared during this project for the two panels (see proposals for these panels
in Appendix 87). The final versions of these papers will be prepared after completion of
this project and by the conference deadline of 1 August 2011.

Regarding the journal theme issue, a proposal will be prepared within the time frame
of this project, and will be submitted to the journal editors for consideration by late
May 2011. Consultation with candidate authors and journal editors will have taken
place prior to that date in order to ascertain whether the theme issue will involve a
single journal title or, possibly, a second open access title.

Regarding the Web-based instructional materials, a proposal for a pre-conference
workshop will be prepared and submitted by the conference call deadline: 1 March
2011. This workshop will provide opportunity to test out the instructional materials
noted above. This workshop, like the above-mentioned panels, is scheduled after
completion of this project. Much of the preparation for the workshop, however, will be
undertaken during the project and will be included in the instructional material
deliverable.

Time plan & activities: The materials for this work package will be completed by 31
May.

Dissemination: Information on this project will be provided through: announcement of
completion of the materials to editors, authors, and publishers of the books described
in the other work packages. Also, announcement of the materials will be made via the
networks of scholars and practitioners maintained by the VKS / KNAW e-Humanities
Group.

4. Knowledge Dissemination
This project is directed at broad dissemination of the materials emerging from the work,
both the Web sites complementing the four books as well as the instructional materials
related to preparation of the Web sites. As previously indicated, the networks of scholars
directly involved with each of the books (editors, contributing authors) and the extensive
networks of the host institution, VKS / KNAW e-Humanities Group, will be made aware of
these Web sites complementing the books. It is anticipated that preparation of
complementing Web sites will contribute to further exploration of a hybrid business model
by university and commercial publishers allowing for both print and Web-based publication.
Finally, readers of the books, both scholars and students, will constitute an important target
audience for the dissemination of these enhanced publications. This last category, readers,
is particularly important inasmuch as they are members of the wider scholarly community
for which enhanced publications are intended.

Various conference presentations and papers, and preparation of journal articles based on
those presentations, will contribute to further dissemination of the fruits of this project. At
this point two proposals have been submitted for inclusion in a symposium organized by the
Oxford Internet Institute, entitled ‘A Decade of Internet Time’. These panels involve the
collaborators of this SURFfoundation proposal for Enhanced Publications as well as the
editors and authors of the four books. These two proposals are included in Appendix 7 and
serve to illustrate the additional forms of dissemination being planned.

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In addition, a special pre-conference workshop being proposed for the annual Association of
Internet Researchers conference provides opportunity to test out the instructional materials
prepared and to discuss more generally the possibilities of enhanced publication within the
humanities and social sciences.

5. Time Plan Overview
Below is an overview of the main tasks for the work packages of this proposal, together with
when tasks are expected to be completed.

14 January Launch of project; meeting of project participants to discuss work package tasks
and completion; preparation of presentation at SURFfoundation launch meeting.

19 January Pending SURFfoundation approval, participation in kick-off meeting of
SURFfoundation enhanced publication projects; presentation of this e-Humanities
Group project.

20 January Presentation of project in Research Meeting of KNAW e-Humanities Group

11 February Completion of remaining features of Web site template, the deliverable for Work
Package 1; this template is to be used by other book publications described in Work
Packages 2, 3, and 4. Evaluation of Work Package 1.

1 March Deadline for submission of workshop proposal for the AoIR conference (deliverable
for Work Package 6)

11 March Initial preparation of book Web sites related to Work Packages 2, 3, and 4; meeting
of project participants responsible for these packages. Initial preparation of
materials for Work Package 6, Project Dissemination.

8 April Monitoring of progress on preparation of book Web sites; specification of
remaining tasks for completion of sites. Monitoring of progress on instructional
materials (part of Work Package 6); specification of remaining tasks.

6 May Completion of book Web sites; near completion of instructional materials;
annotated outline of final report; division of tasks in preparation of report by
project participants.

31 May Deliverables for Work Packages 1 through 6 completed (book
Web sites, project database and portal Web site, and dissemination activities; final
report in draft version; evaluation of work packages; overall evaluation of project.

10 June Submission of project final report.

14 June Participation in concluding meeting of SURFfoundation enhanced publication
projects.

6. Budget Overview
The budget overview has been deleted from this version of the proposal.

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7. Risk Assessment and Management
There are several potential risks involved in this project; these are noted below along with
strategies to deal with the possibilities. The presentation is per Work Package.

Work Package 1: enhanced publication to complement book e-Research
The main uncertainty regarding this work package is whether the publisher of the book,
Routledge, subsidiary of Taylor & Francis, will be willing to make available digital files of the
book chapters in both pdf and html formats. As described in the description of Work
Package 1 above, most Web site features can be implemented without the texts of the book
chapters, but several features (e.g., pop-up visualizations and references, text searching) are
dependent on the text.

A second uncertainty is whether contributors to the volume will be willing to update the
materials supplementing their chapters (e.g., new analyses, new resources resources).
Although the book editor is in frequent contact with several of the contributors, there
remains a degree of uncertainty that requests for material will be honored. In the event
there is limited response, the Web site complementing the book remains intact and
valuable.

Work Package 2: enhanced publication to complement to the book Virtual Knowledge.
As with the book in Work Package 1, there is uncertainty whether the targeted publisher of
the book, MIT Press, will be willing to make available digital files of the book chapters in
both pdf and html formats. As described earlier, preliminary conversations with the
acquisition editor from this publisher were positive and MIT Press has a history of
innovations in book and journal publishing; based on these signals, we remain confident. In
the event full text is not made available, the Web site complementing the book will have
most of the features described, but not those requiring full text.

Unlike the book e-Research, all of the contributing authors to Virtual Knowledge are closely
tied to VKS and we anticipate full cooperation in providing requested materials related to
their chapters. We also anticipate willingness to periodically update the material over the
next two to three-year period.

Work Package 3: enhanced publication to complement to book Long History of New Media.
As with the books in Work Packages 1 and 2, there is uncertainty whether the publisher of
this book, Peter Lang, will be willing to make available digital files of the book chapters in
both pdf and html formats. Given the long-standing work relation between one of the book
editors as series editor for this publisher, it is imaginable that Peter Lang will be willing to
experiment with a business model gaining a degree of acceptance among university houses:
a hybrid model involving Web access to full text and purchase of printed versions of these
book texts. In the event full text is not made available, the Web site complementing the
book will have most of the features described, but not those requiring full text.

Work Package 4: enhanced publication to complement to book Digital Media.
As with the books in Work Packages 1 and 2, there is uncertainty whether the publisher of
the book Digital Media, Polity Press, will be willing to make available digital files of the book
chapters in both pdf and html formats. Such accessibility is not anticipated and the Work
Package has been prepared in such a way that the complementing Web site is presentable
without features requiring full text.

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Work Package 5: project database
Risk in database development activities is mitigated by maintaining a distributed
(decentralized) development architecture. Each website will have a dedicated database
whereby localized functionality occurs independently of the other sites. The aggregation
database will not store data from the others sites. Rather, queries will be facilitated through
standard syndication interfaces (e.g., RSS, Atom).

Work Package 6: dissemination of project materials.
The proposals for conference panels have been submitted, but not accepted. The pre-
conference proposal for a workshop related to the instructional materials will be submitted
but it is not known whether the conference organizing committee will accept the proposal.
Similarly, a proposal for a journal theme issue will be prepared, but submission is not
equivalent to acceptance. These are clearly uncertainties regarding the activities of this
work package. At the same time, there is much reason to anticipate positive response for all
of the above initiatives: we, both as individuals and as an institution, are well known by the
organizers of the conferences and we anticipate a positive reaction to the proposals.

There is a similar degree of risk involved in having a proposal for a theme issue of a journal
accepted. In the case of one of the journal titles, New Media & Society, the project
coordinator is co-editor of that journal and responsible for coordinating theme issues. In the
case of a possible second open access journal, we have working relations with the editors of
the main title under consideration and anticipate serious consideration of a proposal that
will be submitted pending consultation with candidate authors.

Regarding the instructional materials, given previous work in preparing such materials, no
uncertainties are envisioned.

6. Project Sustainability
Enhanced publishing is an ongoing interest on the part of Virtual Knowledge Studio and
KNAW e-Humanities Group. Other KNAW institutes such as DANS are also developing
expertise in this area. The KNAW embraces enhanced publishing at the level of individual
institutes as well as at the level of cross-institutional collaborative efforts (e.g., AlfaLab and
Computational Humanities Programme). The VKS / KNAW e-Humanities Group anticipates
incorporating the experiences of this project in future publications and in promoting such
forms of scholarly communication among its partners in other initiatives, particularly under
the new institutional construction of VKS, the KNAW e-Humanities Group. For example, the
Center for Language and Speech Technology (CLPT) has a long-range objective to develop
tools for speech and technology research, and development of enhanced publications is one
component of that objective. We have initiated discussions with members of this center and
envision collaboration in the future, preparing enhanced publications where full text of
book manuscripts is available, allowing for incorporation of CLPT tools for text annotation
and searching.

In addition, discussions have been initiated with members of DANS regarding enhanced
publications. Particularly through the dual affiliation of project participant Scharnhorst, we
anticipate being able to intensify the alliance between this institution and the KNAW e-
Humanities Group with regard to development of enhanced publications.

The VKS / KNAW e-Humanities Group plans to maintain accessibility to the Web sites
developed in the context of this proposal in the foreseeable future, and will invest the

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relatively minimal expenses associated with annual domain name registration (ca. 200 Euros
per year). More substantially, the book editors are continuing within the new institutional
construction of the KNAW e-Humanities Group and will be periodically updating the sites,
together with the scholars that have contributed to these publications.

For longer range matters of sustainability, discussions will be initiated with representatives
from research libraries in the Netherlands experienced in archiving materials related to
enhanced publications. Once suitable arrangements have been made, the materials related
to the four enhanced publications will be transferred to the digital holdings of an
institutional research library. In the meanwhile, the Web objects related to these enhanced
publications will remain accessible and secure on the servers of the KNAW e-Humanities
Group.

Appendices
Appendix 1: Assessment of Proposal
This appendix contains a summary of responses by proposal authors to report and letter.

Reactions to SURFfoundation Commission Evaluation

Nr. Comments: SURFfoundation Commission Responses: proposal authors
1 Hoewel genoemd wordt dat ook “exchange and This point will be elaborated in the revised proposal.
communicative functions” zullen worden
toegevoegd, waarbij er dus interactie tussen lezer
en auteur is, is mij dit niet duidelijk geworden uit
het projectvoorstel.

2 Het staat niet bij voorbaat vast dat de publicatie The uncertainty regarding availability of book texts in an online
zelf ook online komt, in alle gevallen zijn hierover environment may be seen as an element of risk. It is, nevertheless,
nog geen harde afspraken met de uitgever reflection of the dominant reality of scholarly book publishing. The
challenge in such situations is to explore with stakeholders, including
gemaakt. Dit wordt dan ook gezien als een risico,
the copyright holders of the texts, possibilities for Web-based
maar de websites kunnen ook zelfstandig presentation. As described in the proposal, we are optimistic in
functioneren. some instances; in other instances we anticipate need for creative
exploration with some of the publishers to achieve a degree of Web-
based availability of texts.
This reference to preparation of an article is to be elaborated further
3 Daarnaast zal er een artikel geschreven worden in the revised proposal. At this point, we anticipate two conference
over dit project. papers that will be deposited in the Social Science Research Network
(SSRN) repository. These papers will be candidates for theme issues
planned for one, possibly two journals. The overarching plan
involves a conference panel and subsequent journal issues; these
plans, as developed in a proposal submitted to a conference, will be
appended to the revised version of the SURFfoundation proposal.
Collaboration entails, virtually by definition, dependence on the
4 Bij het samenstellen van de extra informatie is contributions of the involved parties. The collaborative endeavors of
minstens één publikatie erg afhankelijk van de the three book anthologies noted in the proposal involve scholars
goede wil van de schrijvers van het boek, bij een with relatively long and productive histories of cooperation. That
andere publikatie kunnen ze die bijdragen beter said, some contributors will be involved less than others. Overall, we
sturen. anticipate high levels of interest and contribution to the preparation
of the three Web sites. The fourth Web site is to complement a
single-authored textbook that is being prepared by the principle
investigator of this SURFfoundation proposal; for that book, no
dependence or author collaboration is involved.
Yes, these features are illustrations of enhanced publications and will
5 De genoemde faciliteiten die de websites zullen be included in all four books. Depending on availability of
bieden, kun je inderdaad een verrijking noemen copyrighted materials, some of these features may be extended and
voor de mensen die de papieren versie reeds in will be elaborated in the revised proposal.
bezit hebben, zoals bijvoorbeeld een zoekindex op
het papieren boek met referentie naar de pagina.

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The revised proposal will refer to persistent identifiers and we will
6 In het projectvoorstel wordt niet gerefereerd aan include development of them in a new proposed work package.
Persistent Identifiers / Persistent URL’s o.i.d.. Reference will also be made to the various models developed
Evenmin wordt gerefereerd aan het informatie en regarding enhanced publications, especially the OAI-ORE model and
datamodel van verrijkte publicaties; voor zover ik the general model / formulation of enhanced publications prepared
kan zien is het opslaan van onderzoeksdata hier by Woutersen-Windhouwer and Brandsma (2009). Yes, these
niet aan de orde. publications do not involve archiving and making available research
data. That is, interestingly, one of the topics in a chapter in the e-
Research book title, and that chapter explores how such access
varies radically between disciplines.
The point of preservation of the Web sites will be elaborated in the
7 Wel wordt opgemerkt dat de websites na het revised proposal. The EUR repository may not be the most suitable
project toegankelijk blijven en bijgewerkt zullen location because that institution is not presently involved in Web
worden en waarschijnlijk in de repository van EUR site archiving. Related to archiving is the issue of updating material;
opgeslagen gaan worden. this, too, will be elaborated in the revised proposal.

Nr. Summary points in Response: proposal authors
letter from SURF
1 …the evaluation This proposal involves publication of Web-based materials in addition to the printed books. Given
commission would copyright issues, we may not be able to publish all of the material contained in the printed
strongly recommend that books in the online environment. Although such dual publication may be ‘strongly recommended’,
such arrangements can only be achieved through negotiation with the
online publications are
copyright holders. While we remain optimistic that some materials in the four book projects will
published as well as the appear in an online venue, we are not able to establish what and how much prior to negotiations
proposed traditional with the publishers. Yes, linking becomes easier when all materials are online, but in the event there
paper publications. is a difference between what is available online and offline, an alternate form of linking will be
explored, such as QR tab employed by JALC.
2 …possible solution for the Yes, subsequent publications such as the originally mentioned journal article, will link to the sites
uncertainty of the use of proposed in this proposal. The initial idea for a journal article has been expanded into one and
online publications possibly two journal theme issues, which will emerge from preparations for a conference panel;
this plan is detailed in an appendix to the revised proposal. This development provides
(books) is to link all the
additional opportunities for linking materials that are Web-based and printed on paper. This
material to the proposed panel and related journal issue also provides increased opportunity to explore both facets of
journal article. enhanced publishing and, more generally, transformations in scholarly publishing and
communication.
3 …publication date of the The publication dates of the four printed books vary from already published to forthcoming in
publications is one of the 2011 and 2012. We see this as a potentially positive situation: the book already published in
major concerns for the 2009, the e-Research title, will probably result in copyright release of the text and provide
opportunity for preparing many of the links between components of the text about which the
commission.
commission has expressed concern. The new media history book is planned for release in May
2011. We anticipate sample materials will be authorized by the publisher for inclusion on the
book Web site, and some of these may lend themselves to linking as recommended by the
commission. Further, we anticipate a high level of engagement among the contributing authors
to this book in preparing a Web site complementing the printed text. During the launch of the
book, either at a conference in May (ICA) or another event in October (AoIR) we will organize a
roundtable discussion that will allow presentation and promotion of both the print and online
versions of this title. The VKS anthology probably will not be available before late 2011 or early
2012, but a panel discussion of the book is being planned during a conference (OII) in September
2011. This event provides opportunity to present materials from the printed and online versions
of the book. We anticipate strong commitment among contributors to this book in preparing
materials for the online version. Finally, the digital media textbook will rely heavily on Web-
based materials. The text for the printed book is being prepared simultaneously to the materials
for the Web site, and the two will relate directly with each other. That said, the full text of the
printed book will not appear in its entirety on the Web.

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4 …how the project relates Explicit reference will be made regarding various details related to preparation of enhanced
to the Enhanced publications, particularly creation of referencing. Regarding linking, we will explore use of RDF/XML
Publication standards and rather than HTML; we understand that the commission regards this as a condition
and we will do all possible to work in that direction. Use of persistent identifiers will also be
techniques (the creating
incorporated into development of the sites. Much of these aspects are elaborated in a new
and storing relationships Work Package in the revised proposal.
between the
publication(s), website
material and other
information)…. are the
intended links merely
HTML or would the
RDF/XML be used for
describing the
relationships? It is
actually a condition that
RDF/XML is used.

5 …whether the proposed The printed books are being published by established (and largely traditional) commercial and
publications (and the university publishing houses. One title may be open access inasmuch as the publisher (MIT
journal article) are Press) has some prior experience in developing such titles. The other three books are under
contract with commercial publishers and will not be open access. This is not an unusual
intended to be Open
situation; most scholarly books prepared by commercial and university publishing houses are not
Access? available in an open access form. The exceptions to this situation (e.g., Duke University Press,
University of Michigan Press) are few and far between.

Regarding the article, the planned article will probably be included in the overarching idea for
one or two journal theme issues. One of the components of that idea is to arrange collaboration
between a traditional scholarly journal (New Media & Society) with an open access title (e.g.,
First Monday) in order to allow the features (and advantages) of both venues for contributors.
Although it is too early to present concrete details on this plan, various aspects are already in
place to facilitate such a project (e.g., editorship of the traditional journal title, close relations
with the editors of the open access title).

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Appendix 2: Descriptions of Books with Complementing Web Sites
Book Serving as Basis for Work Package 1
Jankowski, Nicholas W. (ed.), e-Research: Transformation in Scholarly Practice. New
York: Routledge, 2009).

No less than a revolutionary transformation of the research enterprise is underway. This
transformation extends beyond the natural sciences, where ‘e-research’ has become the
modus operandi, and is penetrating the social sciences and humanities, sometimes with
differences in accent and label. Many suggest that the very essence of scholarship in these
areas is changing. The everyday procedures and practices of traditional forms of scholarship
are affected by these and other features of e-research. This volume, which features
renowned scholars from across the globe that are active in the social sciences and
humanities, provides critical reflection on the overall emergence of e-research, particularly
on its adoption and adaptation by the social sciences and humanities.

Wouters, Paul, Beaulieu, Anne, Scharnhorst, Andrea, & Wyatt, Sally (eds.), Virtual
Knowledge. Submitted to MIT Press, Nov. 2010.

The long-established hierarchies and practices of scholarly knowledge production are
undergoing change, challenged from within and also by broader social developments. Over
the past 50 years, universities have become accessible to a wider range of people and many
new (inter)disciplines have emerged. National and international science and other policy
makers have played an increasingly important role in steering and evaluating academic
output in both teaching and research. They have also been engaged in promoting particular
forms of work organization, by investing in research infrastructures and by encouraging large
scale collaboration often on an interdisciplinary and/or international basis. A wider range of
social actors, including for-profit corporations as well as civil society organizations, are no
longer simply the passive recipients of knowledge produced elsewhere but are increasingly
active in its production.

Digital technologies have a role to play in all of these processes, including the facilitation of
collaboration, monitoring and evaluation as well as communication of results both within
the scientific community as well as to wider audiences. The implications of digitization,
globalization and commercialization for the natural sciences and engineering have already
received a great deal of attention in the literature. The proposed volume starts from the
observation that the social sciences and humanities (SSH) are also undergoing profound
changes that bring to the fore the very notion of knowledge. Digital technologies provide a
useful probe enabling a deeper understanding of the processes affecting SSH. This is not to
suggest that these processes are reducible to technology (which certainly is the suggestion
by some policy actors) but rather that analysis of the use of technology offers a way into
understanding how traditional locations, hierarchies and processes of knowledge production
in the SSH are being disrupted. Contributors to this volume analyze changing work practices
of scholars, involvement of new actors in new locations, development and use of new forms
of representation, new and hybrid forms of data, as well as the content of research itself.

The Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences (VKS) was established
by the Royal Netherlands Academy for Arts and Sciences at the beginning of 2006. Its
mission is to analyze the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the
social sciences and humanities (SSH) in order both to better understand the dynamics of
knowledge creation and to contribute to policy discussions about the development of
research infrastructures, methods and techniques in SSH.

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Park, David, Jankowski, Nicholas W., & Jones, Steve (eds), The Long History of New
Media: Technology, Historiography, and Newness Contextualized. New York: Peter
Lang forthcoming 2011. To be published in Digital Formations series.

This edited collection is designed to explore the historical grounding of ‘new media’.
Historical attention to new media is, in itself, a scholarly challenge, and this volume
represents an attempt on the part of the editors and contributors to counteract presentist
tendencies evident in many descriptions of new media through a sober and scholarly
approach to the history of new media. Some chapters in this volume are dedicated to
historical descriptions of the development of new media, asking questions concerning the
oft-concealed formation and emergence of media forms. Other chapters hinge on the issue
of new-ness as it relates to existing practices in media history. Still others address the
shifting patterns of storage at work in media inscription, as they relate to the practice of
history, and to the past and contemporary cultural formations.

This proposal emerges from two pre-conferences held at meetings of the International
Communication Association (2008 & 2009). These pre-conferences addressed the relation
between new media and history. A selection of these papers, combined with a small number
of specially commissioned papers, constitutes the material from which chapters have been
developed.

Jankowski, Nicholas W., Digital Media: Concepts & Issues, Research & Resources.
Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, forthcoming 2011. To be published in Digital Media
and Society series.

The text below is excerpted from an annotated outline of the textbook and is intended to
reflect the book structure and content of one of the chapters.

The book consists of 12 chapters, each around 7500 words in length. The manuscript,
including appendices, bibliography and indexes, is approximately 100,000 words. Below is
the table of contents for the book with short sketches of each chapter. The book is designed
as a textbook and, as such, is structured in a manner intended to serve as a learning tool.
Various conventional features will be incorporated into the chapters: boxed texts as
illustrations, generic chapter sub-divisions repeated for each of the chapters; suggestions for
homework, assignments, and projects; short lists of annotated literature; and lists of
additional resources, particularly to Web-based materials. The chapters will be related to a
separate Web site dedicated to the book where many other resources will be provided with
the ease of hyperlinks. Audio and video resources will be referenced on this site in more
abundance than in the text.

The introductory chapter sets the stage for the book and provides an overview of
developments, characteristics and issues related to digital media. This chapter begins with a
sketch that reflects the diversity and extensiveness of the transformations in media ongoing;
it includes a ‘story’ that personalizes the change, bringing it into the everyday lives of the
intended audience of this textbook, university students at both the undergraduate and
master’s level, persons that have been, by and large, ‘born digital’. A panoramic overview is
offered for digital media, and comparisons made with related developments including new
media, multimedia and Internet studies. Through this definitional exercise, the importance
and centrality of digitalization is presented as well as the rationale for a new field of study.
This chapter outlines how the book is organized and its relation to a Web site
complementing the text.

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Appendix 3: Enhanced Publication: Description and Development

An increasing body of literature is appearing that elaborates the idea of an ‘enhanced publication’;
see list of resources at the end of this appendix for some of these materials. One of the more
extensive reviews of this literature has been prepared by Woutersen-Windhouwer and Brandsma
th
(2009), prepared as a deliverable of the EU 7 Framework project DRIVER-II (Digital Repository
Infrastructure vision for European Research). On the basis of a review of various models, these
authors propose a definition of enhanced publication:
a publication that is enhanced with research data, extra materials, post publication data,
database records (e.g. the Protein Data Bank), and that has an object-based structure with
explicit links between the objects. In this definition an object can be (part of) an article, a
data set, an image, a movie, a comment, a module or a link to information in a database.
(Woutersen-Windhouwer & Brandsma, 2009: 20)

In the SURFfoundation 2010 call for proposals further elaboration of the term is provided:
Een Verrijkte Publicatie bestaat uit een publicatie, meestal in de vorm van tekst, verrijkt met
extra materialen. Een publicatie kan een artikel in een tijdschrift, een proefschrift, rapport,
notitie of een hoofdstuk uit een boek zijn. Voorwaarde is dat het over (wetenschappelijk)
onderzoek gaat en een interpretatie of analyse bevat van primaire data of een afgeleide
daarvan. Het begeleidende materiaal kan bijvoorbeeld bestaan uit onderzoeksdata,
beeldmateriaal ter illustratie, metadatasets en post-publicatie data zoals commentaren en
ranking gegevens. Door de veranderende post-publicatie data is het mogelijk dat een
Verrijkte Publicatie zich blijft doorontwikkelen in de tijd. (Wat is een Verrijkte Publicatie?)

Enhancement of publications involves a range of concrete tasks, and Woutersen-Windhouwer and
Brandsma (2009: 54-55) propose a checklist for preparation of the objects included in an enhanced
publication:
 persistent identifiers that are unique and global;
 timestamp and citation information;
 file types commonly available;
 datasets with universal numeric identification;
 satisfactory technical quality to merit preservation;
 consideration of possible legal implications.
They also suggest various forms of additional information related to objects in enhanced
publications: availability and sustainability; ownership and responsibility; and indication whether an
object has been peer reviewed, ranked, cited, and commented upon. The linking of objects within an
enhanced publication merits consideration in a meaningful manner, they suggest, balancing
complexity with utility. Moreover, the relation between linked objects (e.g., a chapter being part of a
book) should be made clear.

Various standards, protocols, and tools have been developed to facilitate preparation of enhanced
publications. Perhaps the most important is the Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange
(OAI-ORE), which “develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the
efficient dissemination of content” Woutersen-Windhouwer and Brandsma (2009: 51). The figure
below depicts the relation between the components of OAI-ORE.

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Model of OAI-ORE (Source: Woutersen-Windhouwer & Brandsma, 2009: 19)

Forms of enhanced publications, sometimes developed under different labels, are emerging outside
the parameters of the DRIVER project and of the SURFfoundation. For example, the University of
California has developed a broad program of publishing activities, called eScholarship, and the
University of Michigan Press and UM Research Library have initiated a far-reaching collaborative
program between these two traditionally distinct divisions that is concerned with hybrid forms of
dissemination of scholarship, both printed and digital forms, and is concerned with preservation and
accessibility of these publications.

A panorama of such initiatives was presented in a lecture by Jankowski at the University of Tampere
in October 2010; see slides available at SlideShare. Perhaps the most pioneering initiative in this
series is the Elsevier ‘Article of the Future’, launched in July 2009 and, as of August 2010,
implemented in a dozen journal titles; see Cell Press announcement. Many of the Web features
found on the Cell Press journal articles are suitable for inclusion in Web sites accompanying printed
book monographs; screen shots of these features are illustrated in Appendix 3 of this proposal. Most
of these features are not commonly found on the Web sites prepared to accompany printed
scholarly books in the humanities and social sciences, and in that regard incorporation of these
features represents a significant step forward in the development of enhanced publications for these
divisions of scholarship.

Resources
This is a list of resources compiled during preparation of the revised version of the proposal for the
SURFfoundation call for enhanced publications. These resources will be consulted in more detail
during the project.
 Enhanced Publications
o Verrijkte Publicaties. General publication prepared by SURF, 2010.
o Enhanced Publications in Archaeology. Hoogerwerf et al. 2009. Background for
launching an open access journal for this field: Journal of Archaeology in the Low
Countries (JALC).
o Enhanced Publications. Slides of presentation by John Doove, SURFfoundation, at
rd
3 Scientific Publishing in Natural History Institutions, EDIT (European Distributed
Institute of Taxonomy) October 2010.

 ESCAPE materials
o Durable Enhanced Publications. M. Hoogerwerf, Data Archiving and Networked
Services (DANS). Elaboration of ESCAPE project.

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