9 research outputs found
Decentralized creation of academic documents using a Network Attached Storage (NAS) server
Scholarly document creation continues to face various obstacles. Scholarly
text production requires more complex word processors than other forms of texts
because of the complex structures of citations, formulas and figures. The need
for peer review, often single-blind or double-blind, creates needs for document
management that other texts do not require. Additionally, the need for
collaborative editing, security and strict document access rules means that
many existing word processors are imperfect solutions for academics.
Nevertheless, most papers continue to be written using Microsoft Word (Sadeghi
et al. 2017). We here analyze some of the problems with existing academic
solutions and then present an argument why we believe that running an open
source academic writing solution for academic purposes, such as Fidus Writer,
on a Network Attached Storage (NAS) server could be a viable alternative.Comment: 15 pages, paper presented at the Enabling Decentralised Scholarly
Communication workshop co-located with the Extended Semantic Web Conference
(ESWC 2017
Analyzing the network structure and gender differences among the members of the Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) community
In this paper, we analyze a major part of the research output of the Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) community in the period 2000-2016 from a network analytical perspective. We focus on the papers presented at the European and US NKOS workshops and in addition four special issues on NKOS in the last 16 years. For this purpose, we have generated an open dataset, the "NKOS bibliography" which covers the bibliographic information of the research output. We analyze the co-authorship network of this community which results in 123 papers with a sum of 256 distinct authors. We use standard network analytic measures such as degree, betweenness and closeness centrality to describe the co-authorship network of the NKOS dataset. First, we investigate global properties of the network over time. Second, we analyze the centrality of the authors in the NKOS network. Lastly, we investigate gender differences in collaboration behavior in this community. Our results show that apart from differences in centrality measures of the scholars, they have higher tendency to collaborate with those in the same institution or the same geographic proximity. We also find that homophily is higher among women in this community. Apart from small differences in closeness and clustering among men and women, we do not find any significant dissimilarities with respect to other centralities
Öffnung der wissenschaftlichen Kommunikation in den Sozialwissenschaften: Verbindung von kollaborativem Schreiben und Peer Review
The objective of the OSCOSS research project on “Opening Scholarly Communication in the Social Sciences” is to build a coherent collaboration environment that facilitates scholarly communication workflows of social scientists in the roles of authors, reviewers, editors and readers. This paper presents the implementation of the core of this environment: the integration of the Fidus Writer academic word processor with the Open Journal Systems (OJS) submission and review management system