Welcome to the Official Blog of the Sustainable Knowledge Project. This is the public face of a SSHRC-funded project looking to examine the strategies for maintaining the vitality of humanities scholarship and the cultural sector by means of electronic scholarly activity, including archiving, editing, and dissemination.
Over the next few months, the project will develop in a few stages.
First is the literature review. We will be asking for public input on the literature review, in the form of comments, suggestions and guidance. The review of literature is one of the most important parts of this process, as it will form a bibliography for the white paper.
Second will be a summit, to be held in Guelph, Ontario on October 29-30, 2010. The summit will be attended by leading scholars and members of Canada's digital creative community and will form the basis for the white paper.
Finally, the white paper. The paper will address
1) the state of knowledge about the impact of digital scholarship on arts activity in Canada;
2) the implications of the changing relationship between scholarship and cultural activity resulting from digital innovation; and
3) the challenges of sustaining both scholarship and the arts sector within a digital economy.
We sincerely hope that you will join us in surveying and assessing the current state of knowledge with respect to sustaining digital scholarship and, through it, the arts.
3 comments:
Great to see the blog - and congrats on the SSHRC project. I'll be curious to see how the conversation develops: Susan's points about how to finance the digital infrastructure are well taken, even though I take a skeptical view of scholarly publishing's future... Good project.
Thanks for this. I'm often skeptical too, but on my better days I think that this is a great opportunity for us, now that open and broader distribution has become relatively inexpensive, really to reinvent scholarly publishing, and in so doing strengthen the sense of the relevance of the arts and humanities beyond the academy. But I agree that scholarly publishing has it was for much of the twentieth century is not going to last.
Agreed completely. One thing I've been thinking about in a related vein is the connection between the work involved in sustaining digital scholarship and the way in which we imagine our community and/or communities pertinent to what it is we do as academics in the larger context of the world around us. When we think of 'academic community,' how important is it for us to include those who might more readily think of themselves in communities associated with words and phrases such as 'library,' 'general public,' 'publisher,' 'policy maker,' 'research funder,' 'business,' and so on. What are the boundaries of our community when we think of all that's pertinent to sustaining digital scholarship in the context of cultural sustenance?
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