CMU, Pitt Receive Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant To Plan Platform for Digital Scholarship

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Summary:

"The Andrew. W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh an 18-month, $60,000 grant to research the development of a standardized platform for digital scholarship. The award will support "Digits," a project that will explore how new technologies that make it increasingly easy to publish, share, reproduce and archive complex digital materials can be sustained in a unified and flexible way....Researchers currently invest countless time and resources creating interactive pieces and self-publishing them online. "But scholars might change web hosts or let subscriptions expire," Lavin said. "This leads to something called link rot. The responsibility of digital preservation needs to be shifted from individual researchers to journal publishers or university archives." Digits also will allow digital projects and small-scale work to be preserved and updated. "It is often considered double-dipping or even cheating to publish nearly identical research as more data becomes available," Weingart said. "Digits would provide infrastructure for regularly updating publications, as with an article that relays perpetually current popular opinions about romance fiction based on a large-scale analysis of online reviews." ..."

Link:

https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2017/september/digital-scholarship-grant.html

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oa.new oa.funding oa.digits oa.infrastructure oa.preservation oa.code4oa oa.platforms oa.dynamic oa.floss oa.economics_of oa.genres

Date tagged:

09/25/2017, 09:42

Date published:

09/25/2017, 05:42