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Evaluation of Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccination Among Newly Arrived Refugees
Authors: Lee Deborah , Weinberg Michelle , Benoit Stephen
Published: March 2017

Objectives. To assess US availability and use of measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccination documentation for refugees vaccinated overseas.

Methods. We selected 1500 refugee records from 14 states from March 2013 through July 2015 to determine whether overseas vaccination records were available at the US postarrival health assessment and integrated into the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices schedule. We assessed number of doses, dosing interval, and contraindications.

Results. Twelve of 14 (85.7%) states provided data on 1118 (74.5%) refugees. Overseas records for 972 (86.9%) refugees were available, most from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Electronic Disease Notification system (66.9%). Most refugees (829; 85.3%) were assessed appropriately for MMR vaccination; 37 (3.8%) should have received MMR vaccine but did not; 106 (10.9%) did not need the MMR vaccine but were vaccinated.

Conclusions. Overseas documentation was available at most clinics, and MMR vaccinations typically were given when needed. Further collaboration between refugee health clinics and state immunization information systems would improve accessibility of vaccination documentation.
Supply-Side Disruption in Cocaine Production Associated With Cocaine-Related Maternal and Child Health Outcomes in the United States
Authors: Delcher Chris , Livingston Melvin , Wang Yanning , Mowitz Meredith , Maldonado-Molina Mildred , Goldberger Bruce A.
Published: March 2017

Objectives. To investigate the effects of precursor chemical regulation aimed at reducing cocaine production on cocaine-related maternal and newborn hospital stays in the United States.

Methods. We analyzed monthly counts of maternal and neonatal stays from January 2002 through December 2013 by using a quasi-experimental interrupted time series design. We estimated the preregulation linear trend, postregulation change in linear trend, and abrupt change in level.

Results. The number of monthly cocaine-related maternal and neonatal stays decreased by 221 and 128 stays, respectively, following the cocaine precursor regulation change. We also observed a further decline in per-month maternal and neonatal stays of 18 and 8 stays, respectively.

Conclusions. A supply-side disruption in the United States cocaine market was associated with reduced hospital stays for 2 vulnerable populations: pregnant women and newborns. Results support findings that federal precursor regulation can positively reduce cocaine availability in the United States.
Research on Investment Preference and the MAX Effect in Chinese Stock Market
Authors: Gou Xiaoju , Bie Limei
Published: March 2017

Investors prefer to invest the stocks with high history returns, which results in that the return of the stock with high history maximum return is often lower than that with low history maximum return, i.e., the MAX effect. We show that the MAX effect is also significant in China stock market, that is, there is a significant negative relationship between maximum return and expected return. We then conduct portfolio analysis and Fama-Macbeth cross-sectional regression and find that range of price and turnover rate can explain the MAX effect in a certain extent, idiosyncratic volatility and idiosyncratic skewness cannot explain the negative relationship between maximum return and expected return. Moreover, maximum return explains the idiosyncratic volatility puzzle partially.
An Optimal Emission Mechanism of Sustainability of China: How to Achieve a Win-Win Solution Between Economy and Environment?
Authors: Liu Xiangdong , Wang Qi
Published: March 2017

The problem of pollution arises along with the rapid development of economic, and it spread from a regional problem to a nationwide one. It has caught the eyes of Chinese government and people that how to develop Chinese economy without harming environment. In this paper, to obtain a win-win solution between economy and environment, optimal results of unit emission penalty mechanism under different industrial GDP growth rates and the growth rates of industrial technical input is given, which applies multi-objective optimization methods based on an economic-ecological model. The results provide factories a way to maximize the benefits, as well as a scientific basis for government to determine the punishment standard and the technical input growth rate.
Analysis of a Single-Sever Queue with Disasters and Repairs Under Bernoulli Vacation Schedule
Authors: Ye Jingjing , Liu Liwei , Jiang Tao
Published: March 2017

This paper studies a single-sever queue with disasters and repairs, in which after each service completion the server may take a vacation with probabilityq(0≤q≤1), or begin to serve the next customer, if any, with probabilityp(= 1− q). The disaster only affects the system when the server is in operation, and once it occurs, all customers present are eliminated from the system. We obtain the stationary probability generating functions (PGFs) of the number of customers in the system by solving the balance equations of the system. Some performance measures such as the mean system length, the probability that the server is in different states, the rate at which disasters occur and the rate of initiations of busy period are determined. We also derive the sojourn time distribution and the mean sojourn time. In addition, some numerical examples are presented to show the effect of the parameters on the mean system length.
ANALISIS PERILAKU INFLASI 33 PROPINSI DI INDONESIA
Authors: Saraswati Birgitta Dian , Kaluge David
Published: March 2017

This study aims to identify the effect of food prices and the factors of demand side on the inflation rate in the 33 provinces in Indonesia. Using fixed effect panel data regression model, our result show that inflation in 33 provinces in Indonesia are caused by demand-side factors ( gross regional domestic product and government expenditure) as well as supply-side factors, namely food prices in this case the price of rice. The policy implication of this study is that monetary policy by controlling the money supply is still effective for achieving the goal of price stability. However, monetary policy alone will not be effective to achieve the inflation target. Required policy coordination among agencies or departments in order to ensure the availability of basic necessities such as rice commodities.
The Correlation Between Critical Thinking and The Learning Results of The Senior High School Students in Biology Learning Implementing Group Investigation (GI) Learning in Malang, Indonesia
Authors: Mite Yakobus , Corebima Duran Aloysius
Published: March 2017

The students’ biology learning results may vary among student, caused by several variables affecting the students’ learning results, such as, learning style, critical thinking, metacognitive skills, learning models and some others. Many researches have investigated the correlation between critical thinking and students’ learning results. However, a research investigating the correlation between critical thinking and learning results in Group Investigation (GI) learning has not been conducted. This research aims at investigating the correlation between the critical thinking and the learning results of senior high school students in Biology learning implementing the Group Investigation (GI) learning in Malang. This research was conducted in 2015 from July until December, using correlational design. The population of this research was all senior high school students in Malang. The subjects of this research were 32 students of class X MIA 2, and 33 students of class X MIA 4 of St Mary senior high school Malang. Data were analyzed using simple linear regression analysis. The results of this research showed that there was a correlation between students’ critical thinking and their learning results with the regression equation of the correlation between the two variables Y = 0.988X + 0.095, having a reliability value of 73.9%.
Scholarly and Research Communication: A Journal and Some Founding Ideas
Authors: Lorimer Rowland
Published: March 2017

Abstract: In general, publishers are motivated by social values rather than by profit. They provide a service by transforming a manuscript into an exploitable literary property targeted at a known market. STM journal publishers distinguish themselves by extracting maximum profit based on the potential financial value of the need-to-know research they report. In the 1990s and aided by the Internet, scholars began to reassert control of journals and journal publishing. Scholarly effort has focused on transmission, that is to say, production and creation of the public record. Full control by the scholarly community must embrace the transformative nature of publishing, and reinvolving publishers to provide a full range of publishing services would seem desirable. The journal Scholarly and Research Communication is being founded to document the developing study and technology involved in this quickly expanding field.
Using Open Journal Systems to Move from Paper Production to Online Open Access
Authors: Botsford Laura C , Haggerty Kevin D.
Published: March 2017

The Canadian Journal of Sociology is an independent, peer-reviewed publication, originally constituted as a charitable organization in 1975. From 1975 to 2008, CJS was printed quarterly and mailed to its subscribers. The move to Open Access and the Open Journal System has meant some adjustments philosophically and pragmatically. In outlining them below, we hope to guide other journals who may be contemplating the same move. While we focus on our use of the Open Journal System, the comments are easily transferrable to other programs and situations.
Implementing New Knowledge Environments: Year One Research Foundations
Authors: Siemens Ray , Siemens Lynne , Cunningham Richard , Galey Alan , Ruecker Stan , Warwick Claire
Published: March 2017

In this 2009 article, we present details of the first year work of the INKE (Implementing New Knowledge Environments) research group, a large international, interdisciplinary research team studying reading and texts, both digital and printed. The INKE team is comprised of researchers and stakeholders at the forefronts of fields relating to textual studies, user experience, interface design, and information management. We aim to contribute to the development of new digital information and knowledge environments that build on past textual practices. We discuss our research questions, methods, aims and research objectives, the rationale behind our work and its expected significance—specifically as it pertains to our first year goals of laying a research foundation for this endeavour.
INKE Administrative Structure: Omnibus Document
Authors: Siemens Lynne
Published: March 2017

This document reflects the distributed administrative structure to be put into practice by the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) group for the purpose of governing itself as it carries out work on its Major Collaborative Research Initiative (MCRI)-funded initiative. The INKE group consists of academic researchers, academic research partners (many invested as stakeholders as well), an international advisory board, a partners committee, individual research area groups (RAG) each with their own (co)leads who act as administrators for the group and form the overall RAG administrative group committee, and an executive committee (EC) that represents all areas of activity in the research endeavour and also includes an administrative/ management advisor (who carries out work and provides leadership on process, not research content) and a project manager. Taken as a whole, the structure of the group is an embodiment of the distributed administrative and authoritative principles that have evolved over the several years of the project's foundation, and the materials that follow have been assembled and authored by the entirety of the administrative team in that spirit. This document is also closely aligned with the processes outlined in two related documents: the annual calendar and the annual RAG planning process.
Simulating Reading: Digital Research Beyond the Database
Authors: Saper Craig
Published: March 2017

In the last decade, much digital humanities research involved databases. Digital technology allowed not only for expansion of concordances, but also, and more importantly, for new types of tagged, hyperlinked, and radiant texts. Databases changed the experience of reading. My research also involves a database, but I now realize that the consequence of building this peculiar database has led to what I believe is the next major aspect of research on the experience of reading: simulation. The reading machines on my website (www.readies.org) allude to Bob Carlton Brown’s machine proposed, in one iteration, in the late 1920s and early 1930s. He called the texts prepared for the machine “readies.” This project led to a realization that one could simulate reading situations and experiences usually only described. So, the Brown machine simulation becomes a prototype for a series of simulations on other reading situations both in the past and potential futures.
Revolutionary Reading, Evolutionary Toolmaking: (Re)development of Scholarly Reading and Annotation Tools in Response to an Ever Changing Scholarly Climate
Authors: MacGregor James B. , Joyce Michael , Hirsch Brett , Leitch Cara , Siemens Ray , Chiang Chia-Ning , Kopak Rick
Published: March 2017

As the online scholarly landscape changes, so too must the tools used to traverse it.  The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) Reading Tools provides readers a bridge from online scholarly content to a host of contextual information, to a number of discipline-specific search engines and databases, and to other tools. A lot has changed since it was originally released, such as the rise of Google Scholar as the de facto starting point for many novice (and not-so novice) researchers; the blurring line between desktop and web applications; and the increased professional use of social networking tools and websites. Recently, the University of Victoria's Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL), in cooperation with the PKP, undertook a study to determine the role and value of the existing Reading Tools, particularly in the context of Humanities Computing. The ETCL has also developed a prototype Professional Reading Environment which has been the basis for substantial analysis. Rick Kopak and Chia-Ning Chiang at the University of British Columbia (UBC) have undertaken a broad survey of the online annotation landscape, and have written a proposal for developing an annotation system for PKP software. This paper discusses how, using this research as a base and in cooperation with UBC and the PKP, the ETCL has begun a large-scale redevelopment of the PKP Reading Tools, extending the current toolset to include new social networking and research tools, as well as a robust personal annotation system, making social annotation possible between small groups and the public.
Literary Evaluation in Online Communities of Writers and Readers
Authors: Boot Peter
Published: March 2017

To date, there has been very little research into online writing communities, largely as a result of the perceived low quality of writing produced in these communities. This article examines literary evaluation within online writing communities. Specifically, the Dutch site Verhalensite, which publishes both poems and stories, is analyzed in an attempt to determine why one work may be rated more highly than another, and whether a work’s ratings create an enduring reputation for its author.
Showcase Browsing with Texttiles 2.0 and BubbleLines
Authors: Giacometti Alejandro , Ruecker Stan , Fioirentino Carlos
Published: March 2017

In this article, we argue that it is possible to effectively expand interactions with a subset of a collection of text files by using an online interface based on rich-prospect browsing principles, coupled with task-specific visualization tools. In this context, we will present the revisions carried out to create the next iteration of the Texttiles browser, based on results from a user study in 2009. These changes have produced a much more flexible platform for showcasing significant items in text collections, based on user selections of display details, arrangement of items into groups, and annotation marks. In addition, we introduce BubbleLines, an interactive visualization that sits on the Texttiles 2.0 Application Programming Interface (API) and allows users to see search results across multiple documents simultaneously.
“Reconfiguring Narrative” Using Digital Tools
Authors: Webb Sharon
Published: March 2017

This article describes the use of digital technology and text markup in the production and dissemination of scholarship. Traditional narrative, as static, linked arguments and paragraphs reflect the constraints, limitations but important use of print technology. “Reconfiguring the narrative” to reflect the capabilities of online scholarship enables readers and writers to engage in more thorough explorations of the text, theory, concepts, and interpretations (Landow, 2006).
New Theories and Methods for Screen-Centred Interfaces: A Pilot Study
Authors: Petty Sheila , Benedicenti Luigi , Riegel Christian , Robinson Katherine
Published: March 2017

There is an urgent need to examine the ways in which screen-centred interfaces present images and encode and decode meaning, identity, and culture. This project is an interdisciplinary collaboration by four researchers at the University of Regina and builds on our work on screen-centred interfaces in our respective disciplines of cognitive psychology, literary studies, media studies, and software systems engineering. The fundamental goals of our collaborative project are to engage interdisciplinary means and perspectives to systematically develop effective methodologies to measure cognitive processes, aesthetic effects, and software and hardware efficacy of the new and developing digital media. In this project/pilot study we intend to select a series of media fragments that include poetic, visual, and language texts, as well as those that combine these features, and present them on a variety of screen-centred interfaces to explore their cognitive and aesthetic effects and features.
Homer and the New Testament as “Multitexts” in the Digital Age
Authors: Clivaz Claire
Published: March 2017

The field of classical studies has undergone a radical transformation with the arrival of the digital age, particularly with regard to the editing of ancient texts. As Umberto Eco (2003) pointed out, the digital age may mean the end of the history of variants and of the notion of the “original text.” Among the texts of antiquity, the editing of Homer and of the New Testament are more especially susceptible to the effects of digital technology because of their numerous manuscripts. Whereas the “Homer Multitext” project recognizes that the notion of a synthetic critical edition is now seriously brought into question, the prototype of the online Greek New Testament continues to be based on the aim of obtaining a unique text, in the style of a printed critical edition. As it moves from a printed culture to the digital age, the editing of the Greek NT is also confronted by the emergence of non-Western scholarship. For example, the presence is to be noted of Arabic Muslim websites that examine Greek New Testament manuscripts but without directly interacting with Western scholarship.
The Beginning, The Middle, and The End: New Tools for the Scholarly Edition
Authors: Ruecker Stan , Rockwell Geoffrey , Sondheim Daniel , Ilovan Mihaela , Windsor Jennifer , Bieber Mark , Frizzera Luciano , Rodriguez Omar , Ranaweera Kamal , Florentino Carlos , Sinclair Stéfan , Radzikowska Milena , Dobson Teresa , Blandford Ann , Faisal Sarah , Giacometti Alejandro , Brown Susan , Nelson Brent , Michura Piotr
Published: March 2017

This article discusses a set of prototypes currently being designed and created by the Interface Design team of the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) project. These prototypes attempt to supplement the user experience in reading digital scholarly editions, by supporting a set of tasks that are straightforward in a digital environment but in a print edition would be sufficiently more difficult as to be prohibitive. We therefore offer these experimental prototypes as a collection of new affordances for the scholarly edition, although they may reasonably be extended, with some variation, to other kinds of digital text.
There’s More Than One Way to Skin a Book: Experimental Interfaces for Reading Illustrated Books
Authors: Bath Jon , Harkema Craig
Published: March 2017

Different readers approach a text in different ways and for different reasons, so designers of interfaces for electronic reading and scholarship must strive for flexibility. Eric Gill’s illustrations for the Golden Cockerel Press invite exploration into the social function of erotic texts, public versus private reading, fine book-making practices, and more, and we hope to provide the tools to allow scholars to engage with these texts in their multiplicity. There may also be readers who just want to read the texts and look at the pictures, and we need to make sure we do not ignore their needs. Most importantly, there are, or will be, readers who want to interact with the texts in ways that we cannot imagine, and we need to do all we can to make this experimentation possible.
From Crud to Cream: Imagining a Rich Scholarly Repository Interface
Authors: Brown Susan , Arazy Ofer , Rockwell Geoffrey , Moroz Ashley , Sellmer Megan , Ruecker Stan , Radzikowska Milena
Published: March 2017

This article addresses the design of a dynamic repository interface to support numerous scholarly activities. Starting with the four fundamental functions associated with persistent storage — create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) — we tested, as an organizing rubric for the interface, the acronym CREAM: Create (represent, illustrate); Read (sample, read); Enhance (refer, annotate, process); Analyze (search, select, visualize, mine, cluster); and Manage (track, label, transform). Based on a card-sorting exercise conducted with researchers, we conclude that a slightly modified rubric of CREAMS offers a useful starting point that emphasizes the enriched functionality a scholarly repository or similarly complex digital environment requires, as well as the immense challenge of designing conceptually clear interfaces, even for a relatively homogenous community of researchers.
Build It and They Will Come? Support for Open Access in Australia
Authors: Kingsley Danny Abigail
Published: March 2017

Australia has enjoyed governmental support for open access for approximately a decade. This paper provides a brief overview of the infrastructure now in place as a result, including widespread repositories and mandates at institutional and funding levels. In addition, the funding process for Australian universities means citation information for all research output has been collected for many years. This offers a unique test case for attempting to determine whether good infrastructure support results in a higher uptake of open access. The difficulties in establishing the percentage of research which is available open access are explored. While this means it is not possible to answer the question definitively, suggestions are made for possible future research.
Enhancing Scholarly Publications: Developing Hybrid Monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Authors: Jankowski Nicholas , Scharnhorst Andrea , Tatum Clifford , Tatum Zuotian
Published: March 2017

Enhancing publications has a long history but is gaining acceleration as authors and publishers explore electronic tablets as devices for dissemination and presentation. Enhancement of scholarly publications, in contrast, more often takes place in a Web environment and is coupled with presentation of supplementary materials related to research. The approach to enhancing scholarly publications presented in this article goes a step further and involves the interlinking of the “objects” of a document: datasets, supplementary materials, secondary analyses, and post-publication interventions. This approach connects the user-centricity of Web 2.0 with the Semantic Web. It aims at facilitating long-term content structure through standardized formats intended to improve interoperability between concepts and terms within and across knowledge domains. We explored this conception of enhancement on a small set of books prepared for traditional academic publishers. While the project was primarily an exercise in development, the conclusion section of the article reflects on areas where conceptual and empirical studies could be initiated to complement this new direction in scholarly publishing.
Libraries, Scholars, and Publishers in Digital Journal and Monograph Publishing
Authors: Lorimer Rowland
Published: March 2017

As the budget increases of the post-World War II era that favoured science and education were being rolled back in the 1970s, information and communicational technological (ICT) development began to be rolled out. Research libraries responded by developing data systems and expertise that led eventually to new services such as institutional repositories and journal hosting. Twenty years later, continued ICT development encouraged entrepreneurship in digital journal publishing among a variety of scholars in Canada and elsewhere. Globally, public and private sector funded digital projects emerged aimed at regime change in the circulation of research knowledge. These dramatic developments are noteworthy for themselves as well as in recognition of valuable library/researcher partnerships that leave content to scholars and administration to libraries. On the whole, these partnerships have not been extended to university press-based monograph publishing with the presses joining as a third partner. Instead calls for reorganization verge on subordinating university presses to institutional mandates that could well diminish freedom of inquiry. A three-way partnership among scholars, libraries and publishing professionals has much to recommend it. Such a partnership, cast as constructivist inquiry, or social science and humanities R&D, would encourage extensive public sector participation scholarly publishing and open a long-overdue dynamic into the social science and humanities research.
Responding to Change and Transition in INKE’s Year 3
Authors: Siemens Lynne
Published: March 2017

Use of project teams is increasing, however little is known about collaboration as it actually occurs over the life of projects. This paper explores the nature of collaboration within Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) after three years of funded research. The third year is characterized by change and transition with new team members, partners, and sub-research areas. INKE continues to draw upon structures and processes, including team building activities, in-person meetings, multiple communication channels, evolving governance documents to support the collaboration, and incorporating collaboration-ready individuals.  The paper concludes with recommendations for similar long term, large-scale project teams.
Regional History in a Digital Age: The Problems and Prospects of Atlantic Canadian Studies
Authors: Slumkoski Corey
Published: March 2017

This article examines the state of Atlantic Canadian digital history. As Canadian granting agencies increasingly favour applications deemed relevant to business interests, it is difficult to secure funding to present Atlantic Canadian digital history. In order to secure the funding necessary to conduct Atlantic Canadian digital history, interdisciplinary team research strategies must be adopted, as Canadian granting agencies display greater willingness to support broad, multi-institutional collaborations. Moreover, such institutional partnerships will hopefully revitalize Atlantic Canadian digital history – which thus far has simply replicated the print paradigm – by encouraging historical presentation in novel and engaging ways, such as through educational gaming.
Re/collections: From Books to Blogs
Authors: Lay Ethna Dempsey
Published: March 2017

This study considers the contemporary post-literacy moment and its kinship to the historical change from Anglo-Saxon orality to English literacy, by suggesting a parallel between the scholarship of Walter Ong and the new media scholar Lev Manovich.  Their perspectives on communication and textuality inform the conversation about how contemporary first-year writers make meaning.  Student writers exhibit remix as a kind of new orality, some sequel to literacy. This notion speaks to the students’ orientation as digital composers, for whom the written word has been displaced as the primary way to present knowledge.  Primary data is drawn from student invention blogs.
Building and Sustaining Long-term Collaboration – Lessons at the Mid-way Mark
Authors: Siemens Lynne
Published: March 2017

This paper contributes to the discussion of ways to support research collaborations by reviewing INKE’s experiences in collaboration and the creation of supportive structures and processes from the first three and a half years of collaboration.
Documenting Subjective Interpretations of Illustrated Book Covers for Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Authors: Michura Piotr , Ruecker Stan , Derksen Gerry , Radzikowska Milena , Dobson Teresa
Published: March 2017

In the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) project, our primary focus of attention has been on text. In this paper, we discuss our recent innovations in finding ways to capture the subjective interpretation of visual information that has in some way been connected with texts. Previous work has focused on test-based semantic differentials, but our current project extends beyond to triads, and beyond text-based difference poles to image-based difference poles. As our case study, we apply the method to illustrated book covers for Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
Negotiations of engaged scholarship and equity through a global network of refugee scholars
Authors: Hynie Michaela , McGrath Susan , Young Julie E.E. , Banerjee Paula
Published: March 2017

Research partnerships are the foundation of successful engaged scholarship, which typically unites partners across disciplines, institutions, sectors, and countries. While rewarding and generative, these partnerships can also be challenging due to differences in expectations, power, and culture, and difficulties in trust and communication. This article reports on interviews with members of an international refugee research network about participating in global partnerships. Responses are interpreted in light of community university partnerships and South-North partnerships and suggest that both face many similar challenges arising out of structures and norms that privilege Northern, theory-based scholarship, institutions, and outcomes. Vigilance and awareness regarding context can help to confront these challenges. Moreover, global partnerships can benefit from strategies developed in the area of community university partnerships to facilitate trust, communication, and shared ownership of international research projects.
Humanities Scholarship in a Vast Universe: Modelling integrated scholarly opportunities between scales of digital information and meaning
Authors: Saklofske Jon
Published: March 2017

Imagine a Google Earth-like opportunity to move between the “street view” of a close reading environment through aerial views of the inferences, influences, and dynamic constructions that emerge from the routes that grow up around a text, to satellite views of larger, constellated fields of contextual data. What kinds of scholarship and scholarly communication would such an environment enable? How would the inclusion of mapping and terraforming tools (that parallel the functions demonstrated in a game like Minecraft, or within Outerra’s impressive planetary mapping demo and sandbox prototype) encourage further occupation and influence? The Modelling and Prototyping group at INKE (Implementing New Knowledge Environments) is working to engage with such possibility spaces in an effort to address these questions.
Inference and Linking on the Humanist’s Semantic Web
Authors: Simpson John Edward
Published: March 2017

The Semantic Web promises that the pools of semantic data it interweaves together will enable people to find information that they could not otherwise find by revealing knowledge not explicitly visible in the distributed source data.  In order for this promise to be fulfilled within the humanities, the Semantic Web data being created must have certain features, but what are they? This article provides some background on Semantic Web inferencing and then argues that there are three things that humanists can do to prepare their data to participant in this sort of inference generation: add more data, reciprocate links across repositories, and add metadata specifically to support inferencing.
Gameplay, Visualization, and Collaboration in RefScape, A Bibliographic Management Tool
Authors: Bath Jon , Giannelli Federica , McDougall Jade , Neudorf Benjamin , Zhang Xiaohan , Research Group INKE
Published: March 2017

While many projects start out with the intention to use collaborative tools such as Wikis or communal workspaces, many have difficulty sustaining their usage over time. With this in mind, we created RefScape in order to manage bibliographic resources among multiple researchers and increase motivation through game-based strategies.
Innovation through Tradition: New Scholarly Publishing Applications Modelled on Faith-Based Electronic Publishing & Learning Environments
Authors: Lane Richard J.
Published: March 2017

Faith-based publishers were some of the earliest adopters of electronic publishing; while many such publishers continue to produce simple e-books and/or websites for personal or academic study, a smaller number have developed comprehensive, integrated, highly dynamic electronic publishing and learning environments. There are lessons to be learned for the future of secular scholarly publishing through examining how faith-based communities of readers/learners are engaging in these specific resources. The tailoring of eTheology applications to communities of users also offers a model for a potential/future integrated scholarly publishing system that would dynamically engage in levels or knowledge domains of discrete (but interconnected) “communities” of users, collect and analyze usage and needs in real time, as well as provide clusters of resources and tools tailored for the user.
Interdisciplinary, Interactive, and Online: Building open communication through multimodal scholarly articles and monographs
Authors: Christie Alex
Published: March 2017

The emergence of digital scholarship in the humanities and the social sciences has brought a renewed emphasis on culture, at the levels of modelling and communication. New forms of digital scholarship—including projects in big data, physical computing, and gameful design—experiment with methods for modelling cultural data, considering how the historical and social issues addressed by the humanities and the social sciences can be expressed through electronic means. Alongside these advances, equal progress is under way in the realm of scholarly communication. Developments in the areas of peer review, scholarly collaboration, and digital publishing, including the development of Open Journal Systems (OJS), spur the growth of online cultural and intellectual communities surrounding humanistic endeavour. As these advancements progress alongside each other, the question of how they might be integrated remains. Coupling advancements in the realm of digital scholarship with new forms of publishing and peer review promises to leverage the affordances of both, making public-facing platforms for cultural content, while building vibrant intellectual communities around them.
Linked Metadata and New Discoveries
Authors: Pascoe Julienne
Published: March 2017

This article examines the opportunities and challenges surrounding the creation and use of linked open data (LOD) for cultural heritage resources in libraries, archives, and museums. With a specific focus on the metadata projects at Canadiana.org, this article explores LOD principles and strategies for implementation within the context of cultural heritage collections, highlighting the significance of the Semantic Web for research and engagement with cultural heritage resources across disciplines and communities.
From Technical Standards to Research Communities: Implementing New Knowledge Environments Gatherings, Sydney 2014 and Whistler 2015
Authors: Arbuckle Alyssa , Mauro Aaron , Siemens Lynne
Published: March 2017

On December 8, 2014, researchers, students, librarians, and other participants gathered together in Sydney, Australia at the State Library of New South Wales for the 7th annual Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) Birds-of-a-Feather conference, “Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age.” On January 27 and 28, 2015, a similar group of stakeholders met in Whistler, BC, Canada, at the Nita Lake Lodge for the second year to discuss “Sustaining Partnerships to Transform Scholarly Production.” The events were hosted by INKE and sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). Drawing from these two gatherings, the articles collected in this latest issue of Scholarly and Research Communication reflect an ongoing conversation in SRC (see 5.4), on new ways humanities researchers, publishers, and policy makers can collaborate effectively to make the most of the new affordances of computational tools and methods.
From Angel to Agile: The Business of the Digital Humanities
Authors: Irvine Dean
Published: March 2017

This article positions historical and contemporary formations of the digital humanities in relation to different economic and business models. It examines the prototypical business partnership and economic relations between Father Roberto Busa and Thomas J. Watson as well as the collaboration between Busa and Paul Tasman at IBM. It also proposes a new business and economic prototype, modeled on the principles of agile development and networks.
The Visual Re-Mediation of a Complex Narrative: Re-Imagining the "Small World" Stories of Journey to Horseshoe Bend
Authors: Morley Rachel , Cohen Hart
Published: March 2017

This article has its foundations in a research project that was launched to compile a range of related archival records and media resources into a digital database repository with the intention of hyperlinking this material to specific and significant points in a selected text, T.G.H Strehlow’s Journey to Horseshoe Bend. There are elements of the text that are of potential and particular relevance to the Aranda community based at Ntaria – also known as Hermannsburg – in Central Australia. The article traverses across a range of issues pertinent to the knowledge communities marked out by the text, and presents a case for representing and reimagining Journey to Horseshoe Bend in database narrative form.
History Moves: Mobilizing Public Histories in Post-Digital Space
Authors: Wizinsky Matthew , Brier Jennifer
Published: March 2017

Similar to most cultural forms today, history is collected, edited, manipulated, stored, displayed, distributed, and otherwise produced through a complex network of post-digital techniques and media. It is often produced only by historians. History Moves is a public history project that aims to produce cogent and collective historical experiences within the cultural frame of mutable and highly distributed media forms. It does this by bringing history, design, and historical subjects into conversation to shape public space. The project uses a participatory process that mobilizes people to interpret history by mobilizing digital and analogue media. History Moves transforms historical subjects into history-makers while simultaneously and repeatedly transfiguring media into forms that are engaging and accessible to widely distributed audiences. This article recounts a case study where History Moves worked with a group of women living with HIV/AIDS to present a history of the epidemic and a women’s history of Chicago. We suggest that the example provides a model for how to build participatory digital history projects and collaborative history displays.
Digital Theoria, Poiesis, and Praxis: Activating Humanities Research and Communication through Open Social Scholarship Platform Design
Authors: Saklofske Jon , Group INKE Research
Published: March 2017

Background: Scholarly communication has not experienced the kinds of digital enhancements enjoyed by researchers. The continuing domination of journals and monographs as primary venues of professional exchange and validation signifies lingering habits of critical perception, but also an opportunity to imagine and implement new collaborative publishing environments, models, and platforms. Analysis: Examples of innovative projects bottlenecked by traditional reporting methods illustrate the need for such transformative practices.Conclusion and implications: Developing flexible digital environments to establish open social scholarship as the default mode of critical inquiry and reporting is essential to the digital transformation of scholarly communication.
StructureMorph: Creating Scholarly 3D Models for a Convergent, Digital Publishing Environment
Authors: Bonnett John , Anderson Mark , Tang Wei , Farrimond Brian , Robichaud Léon
Published: March 2017

Background:  The StructureMorph project rests on the premise that future publishing platforms will converge multiple applications, such as geographic information systems (GIS) and game engines, and multiple paradigms of computing, such as desktop computing and high-performance computing. Convergent platforms will also present design challenges for scholars.Analysis:  In this contribution, one response to these challenges is presented: the Complex Object. Complex Objects are 4D models that alter their shape and surface appearance in response to user interaction, and changes in world time. They also to mimic the behaviours of 2D polygons as configured in geographic information systems, graphically linking attribute data with spatial locales.Conclusion and implications:  This article discusses the concept of the Complex Object and describes the software and workflow devised to support its creation.
Humanities Research Software Design: The Wilde Trials Web App
Authors: Colligan Colette , Joyce Michael , Bull Sarah , Loyen Cécile
Published: March 2017

Background:This article discusses the design of Web-based research software to computationally analyze the international news coverage of the playwright Oscar Wilde’s 1895 sex trials. Over two months, Wilde stood three trials, eventually being convicted of “gross indecency” (1885 Criminal Law Amendment Act).Analysis: Over the past year, we have collaboratively designed a program to advance our understanding of the trials’ cultural impact as they were reported in newspapers around the world. Bridging our expertise in nineteenth-century cultural history and software engineering, we discuss the concept and design of the Wilde Trials Web App, as well as early discoveries about the French news coverage and plans for the program’s further development.Conclusion and implications: Our work stands at the forefront of software design and data-driven research on the nineteenth-century press.
Writing for Publics, Designing for Platforms: Complexity and Fluency in Service of Accessibility
Authors: Keramidas Kimon
Published: March 2017

Background: Academic work continues to be dominated by the design schema of codex-based forms of scholarly communication, the academic monograph, journal, and research paper.Analysis: This article argues that the rise of the digital medium provides us with a chance to defamiliarize these traditional modes to develop more accessible publications through new uses of both digital and non-digital platforms. The appropriate integration of digital platforms in concert with physical displays and traditional texts is exemplified by work done on two exhibitions at the Bard Graduate Center.Conclusion and implications: Applying a sense of design acuity that thoughtfully develops engaging interactions across a number of different media platforms allows for the creative development of projects that integrate accessible knowledge production with intellectual rigour.
Critically Making Humanities Cyberinfrastructure
Authors: Christie Alex
Published: March 2017

Background: This writing uses the language of the z-axis and Pedagogy Toolkit projects to map diversity at the heart of new knowledge in digital spaces. Drawing on modernist models of space, the introduction argues that genuine advances in knowledge require looking past existing conceptual models to embrace a diversity of worldviews.Analysis: This argument is then anchored in feature developments for two projects: the z-axis mapping project and the Pedagogy Toolkit project, which open the door for students with multiple literacies to discover uncharted space in the tools/projects landscape of humanities cyberinfrastructure.Conclusion and implications: The conclusion advances concrete next steps for expanding cyberinfrastructure into such uncharted spaces, pinpointing diversity as a core mode of thought required to set these steps in motion.
NEOLIBERALISMO Y “ECONOMÍA SOCIAL Y SOLIDARIA”. CONSIDERACIONES SOBRE LA IDEA DE “AUTOAYUDA” (SELF-HELP) Y LAS POLÍTICAS DE DESARROLLO EN RELACIÓN A UN ESTUDIO DE CASO.
Authors: Presta Susana Rita
Published: March 2017

En un contexto mundial atravesado por profundas crisis y transformaciones en los procesos de producción capitalistas, cobran nueva importancia las organizaciones de la llamada “economía social y solidaria”, en tanto son consideradas como una “alternativa” frente a la crisis.El presente artículo comprende el análisis de nuestro trabajo de campo realizado en una cadena de valor textil artesanal localizada en el noroeste de la provincia de Entre Ríos (Argentina), en el marco del Proyecto de la Ruta 127/12 que se inicia en el año 2004. Nos interesa centrarnos en los organismos internacionales que financian y participan en la coordinación del emprendimiento, enmarcado en la economía social y solidaria. Asimismo, analizaremos los conceptos de solidaridad, justicia social, ayúdate de ti mismo (self-help) y soberanía del consumidor presentes en los discursos de dichos organismos.Nuestra hipótesis es que la actual economía social y solidaria, y las políticas de desarrollo que la promueven, retoman conceptualizaciones propias de la Economía Social de Mercado y la impronta de los postulados de la Doctrina Social de la Iglesia, construyendo nuevas formas de gobierno de la fuerza de trabajo que implican un proceso de “hibridación” del ejercicio del poder.
Celebrities and cyber crimes: An analysis of the victimization of female film stars on the internet
Authors: Halder Debarati , Jaishankar Karuppannan
Published: March 2017

With the advent of internet and digital communication technology, online
crimes targeting celebrities have gained a momentum. This article argues
that, among the celebrities, actresses of Hollywood and Bollywood are
particularly targeted online mainly because of their sex appeal and easy
availability of contents including their images, video clippings, their
private geo-location information, etc. The perpetrators are mostly fans who
may wish to view the actresses as sex symbols. This article suggests that
production houses should take primary responsibilities to prevent such
victimisation and the actors themselves may avail legal policies such as
right to be forgotten to approach the internet companies including search
engines like Google to prevent victimisation and remove the offensive
contents.