Policy Document on the Open Access Agenda - Arcadia.org.uk

This is a brilliant, comprehensive document detailing the scholarly and societal need for an urgent implementation of the open access agenda. Click here for the link to the document.

Knowledge shared online

After the stimulating discussion and debate at last Friday's Honest to Blog, organised by Pue's Occurrences, and having had many discussions about the relative merits of social media, I took the plunge in to the twitterverse tonight.

And I found a lively, stimulating online debate amongst fellow scholars about what is happening at Glasgow at present and also a host of useful links and online discussions useful to my own interests. Paperless Archaeology is one at the Digital Classicist list.

I should have known that epigraphers would be ahead of the crowd with new media.

Honest to Blog - A Symposium on Web Legitimacy

The second symposium - under the auspices of Pue's Occurrences - is being held in TCD this Friday 4th March. It promises to be a wide ranging discussion of the Irish blogosphere.

New Media - Social Networking and Inclusion

It was everywhere - everyone was tweeting - linking and engaging in debate in almost real time - social media hit the General Election 2011.
Every news programme, every paper, almost every TD had a twitter account. Post Trafigura the oft scorned tweet has gained some gravitas, that and the impact social networking is having in the Middle East at present, coupled with the impact and immediacy of the tweet and the blog cannot be ignored.
Live blogging too has impacted enormously - whether your sport is centred on the Aviva, or the local count centre, RTE's, and the IT's enhanced coverage was excellent recently.

In 'Another blog about the role of Social Media' Éanna Ó Caollaí writes about the best Tweets in #GE2011 - they are well worth a look...

Digital History by Dan Cohen

There is an absolutely excellent online resource for anyone who is interested in digital scholarship. It is by Dan Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig and called Digital History. It discusses the shift in concepts and methodologies that the web ennables. And it is in the language of the 'techno-realist' as opposed to the 'too good to be true' optimist It is available here: Digital History. Dan's blog is at dancohen.org and has a video and pdf slides of his recent plenary at the Coalition for Networked Information posted.

Guardian review of Sherry Turkle's new book Alone Together

Sherry Turkle has written a new book Alone Together the review is here but it is the comments section where the debate is most interesting. Many respondents refute the existence of halcyon days of yore where we all struck up conversations spontaneously with stranges on public transport or in cafes and also refer to other cusp moments where new technology was derided...

Research Intelligence at Oxford's e-Science Research Centre

This is an interesting article from the THE on the inherent interdisciplinarity of what we do - and how the world has shrunk in terms of knowledge creation and sharing in real-time.