The Spectrum of Scholarly Communication
Michael L. Nelson
WS-DL Luncheon
2019-11-07
@phonedude_mln
Establishing a professional / research identity
Take this identity and
then engage with the community
Your professional identity can be integrated with or separate from your leisure / recreational identity
There’s more to scholarly communication than just publishing papers
The Spectrum of Scholarly Communication
(In roughly descending order of conventional importance)
Journals
Conference papers
Book chapters
Technical reports
Software / data
Slides
Blogs
Tweets
These get you hired / promoted
These are citable, but not peer reviewed
Lots of interest in making these citable / reviewed, but still not there yet
Not reviewed, typically not on your CV, citable in a pinch, but indexed and discoverable by search engines!
Receives WS-DL
publication points;
the extent of conventional identity
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Example: “Social Cards Probably Provide For Better Understanding Of Web Archive Collections”
Journals
Conference papers
Book chapters
Technical reports
Software / data
Slides
Blogs
Tweets (to the left)
Scholarly communication establishes your reputation,
your reputation creates opportunities
Google Scholar is not perfect,
but it’s probably the best tool we have right now
How traffic arrives at my ODU Digital Commons
Google Scholar drives traffic, but we should add more of our references to wikipedia.
ORCIDs are DOIs for people
Tech reports / eprints:
Longer versions of published papers, ideas that are citable but not yet ready for conventional publication (priority claiming)
ACM CIKM 2019 eprint,
58 pages!
Describes a data set; cited in research publications but not suitable for a conference publication.
arXiv: Put your work where people are already reading
We open source software + data
GitHub = RCS + blog + social media + file hosting + ...
Always fill out your bio!
Slides won’t get you tenured, but they will be read
Remember assumptions about names baked into the system? SlideShare won’t let me have a middle initial.
Blogs: more than tweets, not quite tech reports
Protocol / format, for public feedback
Trip Report
Trip Report
Trip Report
Related work review
PhD summary
Lessons learned with software packages
The WS-DL blog gets a lot of traffic
Choosing a good leading image when blogging means you’ll get a good social card
At time of tweeting, this post
lead with an embedded tweet
instead of an image
This post lead with an image, which Twitter et al. know how to extract and use
Fill out your Twitter bio!
Follow your peers + colleagues
“For those who have passed, for those to come…”
We’ve had an active research group for 16+ years
Your identity is participating in a brand, the
Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group
A sampling of unsolicited feedback...
Mention @WebSciDL in your presentations
Repeat your handle in the footer. Most WebSciDL related conferences live tweet, and you don’t want to make people remember your handle.
@WebSciDL exists to amplify your identity via RTs
Writing a tweet:
Somewhere between a long title and a short abstract.
Terse tweets #1
To be fair, this was in the 140 character limit days, and best practices had yet to emerge. Also note the URL in the 2010 tweet is no longer auto-linked!
Good tweets #1
Terse tweets #2
We have 280 characters now — use them!
Repeat the title, describe the key findings, use hashtags, mentions, etc.
Good tweets #2
Good tweets #3
Good tweets #4
Threads: Make each tweet a standalone “nugget”
Got a long thread? Turn it into a blog post later.
Quote Tweet: Adding context + commentary
Engage with your peers
Announce, Engage, Link
Be positive
Participate in the full spectrum
Journals
Conference papers
Book chapters
Technical reports
Software / data
Slides
Blogs
Tweets
Your responsibility
doesn’t end here!