Wikis in scholarly publishing
About
This page serves to draft a contribution to a special issue of Services and Use that is dedicated to the APE 2011 conference at which this talk was given. The issue will be Open Access, authors retain copyright, and our drafting the paper on this wiki has been approved by the publisher. In the spirit of wiki collaboration, we invite others to join the drafting. For some sample articles covering earlier APE conferences, see here. Submission deadline is March 1, 2011.
Title
Science as a wiki
Authors
Daniel Mietchen, Gregor Hagedorn, Konrad U. Förstner, Mark Hahnel and Lyubomir Penev
- Others are welcome to join in!
- See also Template:Publication to wiki notice TESTING.
Abstract
Wikis provide an environment that allows to collect, structure, maintain and update knowledge in a coherent fashion, yet their potential for formal publications has not been systematically explored so far. What roles can they play in scientific discourse? What have we learned about their “internal life”? Where do Wikis work – where not? How do wikis relate to “generally accepted knowledge”? And what are the signals that build trust in such results or contributions? How do researchers select and focus contributions: pick up what is new and relevant and skip the irrelevant and redundant? Where do wikis impact publishing, where do they replace it, what can be learned for publishers?
Introduction
- Refer to some Beyond the PDF stuff.
Wikis in scholarly communication
- Mention integration with scholarly workflows, including teaching.
- OpenWetWare as example for a scientific community wiki; hosting many labs and the iGEM community
Wiki Journal
Main page: WikiJournal.
Editorial policies
Main page: Editorial policies.
- add citability
Semantification
- Mention XML-based workflows at Lemon8 and Pensoft
- Mention collaboration between ZooKeys and Species-ID
- Problem:Cross-domain ontologies
Sample article
Wiki Repository
Main page: WikiRepository. See here for an example article. Not just OA "articles" but also suitably licensed blog posts and other stuff.
Business models
Obstacles
Main page: Obstacles.
- Usability - not everyone has the skills to work with wikisyntax. solution: WYSIWYG modes
- Small contributions e.g. gene annotations are not increasing the considered reputation of scientists. A measurement system and consideration of it is needed.
Alternatives
Outlook
Refer to some more Beyond the PDF stuff, especially on data publishing.
References
We will link to online references directly, leaving their metadata in the footnotes as usual. All links shall be archived with WebCite.
Figures
Charges for colour figures apply, for which we do not have funds.
Multimedia
Multimedia embeds shall not be possible on the journal site, but they can be integrated with the paper if hosted elsewhere.
- Perhaps mention "debate on the best way to present multimedia content"
Unsorted
This section contains stuff that may be useful during the writing process. It will be deleted when the article is finished.
- Kevin Kelly proposes in "Speculations on the future of science" "Wiki-Science".
- WikiGenes and a publication in Nature Genetics about it
- Gene Wiki and a publication in PLoS Biology about it
- Scientific reputation building via microcontributions
- The journal RNA biology requires a corresponding Wikipedia entry for the acceptance of publications regarding new RNA families.
