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Aggregation of Open Access Scholarship and Communities of Practice
Conference Track
6. Scholarly Communication
Keywords
scholarly communication, digital humanities
Learning Objectives
Following this session, participants will be able to use the PressForward WordPress plugin to aggregate and curate material from the open web, and consider important issues in developing community-based publications.
Abstract
The development of the PressForward plugin and the prototype publication Digital Humanities Now offers a test case in the management of new forms of scholarship while exposing the ways that technological innovations can both highlight differences between researchers and foster collaboration and resource-sharing among interested users.