As an open book

A metaphorical approach to reading and researching activities in network(ed) society.

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Three projects, three good news

World Bank and Open Access July 1, 2012

Paris Declaration on Open Educational Resources

June 22, 2012

PEW Internet Pew Research Center June, 22, 2012A report on Libraries, patrons, and e-books

World Bank and Open Accesseffective July 1, 2012

The World Bank approved recently a new Open Access policy for its research outputs and knowledge products.In support of the new policy the Bank is consolidating thousands of books, articles, reports and research papers in a search-engine friendly Open Knowledge Repository, and allowing the public to distribute, reuse and build upon much of its work

PEW Internet Pew Research Center

A report on Libraries, patrons, and e-books

PEW INTERNET• Released: June 22, 2012

• Libraries, patrons, and e-books

• Part 1: An introduction to the issues surrounding libraries and e-books• The emergence of digital content has disrupted industries and institutions that

have enjoyed relatively stable practices, policies, and businesses for decades. News organizations, record companies, broadcast and movie producers, and book publishers have all been dramatically affected by the change.

• So have libraries. Interest in e-books took off in late 2006 with the release of Sony Readers, and accelerated after Amazon’s Kindle was unveiled a year later. And this public interest prompted many libraries to offer e-books to borrow, and this patrons’ interest in e-books has only grown over time.

Pew InternetImaging the future of libraries

• Patrons and librarians were fairly uncertain about the exact way that libraries would function in the future. Overall, most librarians from our online panel thought that the evolution of e-book reading devices and digital content has been a good thing for libraries, and all but a few thought that the evolution of e-book reading devices and digital content has been a good thing for reading in general.

• Still, there was a strong sense in answers from librarians and users that significant change was inevitable, even as readers’ romance with printed books persists. Some patrons talked about libraries with fewer printed books and more public meeting and learning spaces. Some librarians struggled to see past a murky transition. There was a combination of apprehension and excitement in their answers without a clear consensus about the structure and shape of the institution.

Another very good news for book world

The Telegraph - 26 Jun 2012

Inmates in four federal prisons holding some of Brazil's most notorious criminals will be able to read up to 12 works of literature, philosophy, science or classics to trim a maximum 48 days off their sentence each year, the government announced.

Prisoners will have up to four weeks to read each book and write an essay which must "make correct use of paragraphs, be free of corrections, use margins and legible joined-up writing," said the notice published on Monday in the official gazette.A special panel will decide which inmates are eligible to participate in the program dubbed "Redemption through Reading".

The Triple Revolution

Lee Raine and Barry Wellman , Networked: The New Social Operating System. MIT Press, 2012

Three revolutionary keys

Internet

Movil devices

Social Networks

USER as a key

• SOCIAL AND TECHNICAL ENHANCEMENT

• A Technical enhancement offers new capacities from the device that are real affordances to social enhancement

• Social enhancements appears as new capabilities that individuals are able to expand and transforms the object (book) itself

LibraryThingA Networked Library

https://booki.shABOUT BOOKI.SHBooki.sh is an immersive reading environment – like a comfortable chair under a nice lamp – designed for the pure joy of reading. Behind the scenes, Booki.sh is also a complete web-based platform for distributing, selling and reading ebooks that is simple to use on any device with a modern web browser. https://booki.sh

http://www.overdrive.com/

How do I access the books?

The Book as Ecosystem of Scholarly Dialogue

• http://goo.gl/DJQ3k Christopher P. Long on June 25, 2012If, however, the book is not to be a mere abstract academic exercise, it will need to be published in a way that performs and enables the politics of collaborative reading for which it argues.

Scientific blogging

• http://hypotheses.org/

• Hypotheses is a publication platform for academic blogs. It enables researchers to provide real-time updates of developpements in their own research. Academic blogs can take numerous forms: accounts of archaeological excavations, current collective research or fieldwork; thematic research; books or periodicals reviews; newsletter etc. Hypotheses offers academic blogs the enhanced visibility of its humanities and social sciences platform. The Hypotheses team provides support and assistance to researchers for the technical and the editorial aspects of their project.

Google Scholar Citations

• It allows for a researcher's profile to be constructed with speed and simplicity, taking advantage of the search engine's resources and allowing the researcher to interact with the system to finetune searches, improve reliability, etc

• My profile as an example: already automatically includes a recent publication of mine which appeared in this month’s edition of Isegoría

E-book timeline

20 years ago e-book was a simple translation from analogical to digital support.

Only a support change.

It is more, much more.

INFORMATION

• Knowledge• Pleasure• Enterteinement• Gift• Other things related with the format such as

information is presented to human beings.

Openness is a Social property

• Openness is a resource to think about book• All questions that openness shows in real

society are now reconceptualized (open, clear, transparent, accessible.

• Not enclosure from the agricultural society and medieval cities to modern ones, not walls.

• Beginning new ways, roads, (data highways become opened and places to pass for everybody).

Open access libraries

The better method of conservation is the use. The most used book is the best conserved… New

bindings. User demands. NOW in a huge quantity of electronic data, the

use is very important . More use, more preservation (v.g. Most used

electronic archives are more changed to new support, new versions, etc., etc.

From data highways to informational society

• Informational society• Network society• Networked society• Networked individualism• Everything is changing • Things/ Internet/Human being interwoven • Book Internet/but now appears as a new kind

of object.

New habits to a new era

• Networked reader• Networked researcher• Networked library• Networked librarians• Networked patrons

• A NEW Set of affordances come with e2book

Seekings

Seeking. Serendipity Silent Reader Learning of new abilities to expand the new

capabilities. LIBRARIAN APPEARS AS A NEW CURATOR OF

KNOWLEDGE. Reference, management, software are embedded in the real object v.g. CrossRef, DOI, identification of the electronic objects that offers.

New literacy, e-competences.

Erasmus: reading, learning and researching

I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by nightly as well as daily use, thumb them, batter them, wear them out, who fill up all the margins with annotations of many kinds, and who prefer the marks of a fault they have erased to a neat copy full of faults.

Letter to a friend (Steyn, 1489?), The Correspondence of Erasmus Letter 31, p. 58. University of Toronto Press.

Do not be guilty of possession a library of learned books lacking learning yourself . Letter of Erasmus to Christian Northoff (1497)

USER as a key

• SOCIAL AND TECHNICAL ENHANCEMENT

• A Technical enhancement offers new capacities from the device that are real affordances to social enhancement

• Social enhancements appears as new capabilities that individuals are able to expand and transforms the object (book) itself

3M Cloud Library

3M DISCOVERY TERMINAL

iTunesU

What is open in an open e-book

• Knowledge as a public good

• A New Communication Order: Researching Literacy Practices in the Network Society

• DOI:10.1080/09500780108666805 Ilana Snyder pages 117-131

• Available online: 29 Mar 2010

Open Educational Resources

• OER-University• Drumbeat Festival• Badgets and other tools• New habits and new capabilities in network

society

Books, libraries, patrons

• A new approach to living library• A borgesian library in an Orwellian landscape

Borgwell: From Borges to Orwell• Dreams, nightmares and others

Surrounding changes in scholarly communications

PeerJ Launching this Fall

• Bloch, William Goldbloom (2008) The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges´ Library of Babel. Oxford: Oxford UP.

• M. Van der Boomen et als (comps.) Digital material: Anchoring New Media in Daily Life and Technology. Pp. 95-106. Amsterdam Amsterdam UP

• http://www.nextnature.net/about

• Zdravko Radman Corps, cerveau et beauté. La Place de L´Esthétique dans le domaine de L´Esprit pp. 50 73 diogene.

• Nathalie Casemajor Loustau (2012), “La participation culturelle sur Internet: encadrement et appropriations transgressives du patrimoine numérisé” en Communication & Langages 171, marzo 2012, pp 81- 98

• Ver revista nueva Participations 1 (1) 2011• Articulo en linea en www.necplus.eu