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My big news today is that I’m leaving the New York Public Library to take a new position at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, where I’ll be the Program Director for Digital Information Technology and the Dissemination of Knowledge, effective September 1. You can watch this space and others for more on where I see [...]

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The other thought that emerged was that the broader engagement that I and others (notably Cliff Lynch) have been describing as a move from "public humanities" to "citizen humanities" (and for which "crowdsourcing" seems to serve as a useful shorthand) could have very tangible benefits as increased visibility to and participation by the public translates into more public funding. The general perception of the academic humanities as far removed from the daily lives of the general public that is only heightened by isolationist jargon and publishing mechanisms that create rather than break down silos represents a massive failure to make the case for the value of that work to society, and federal/state funding (or the relative lack thereof) follows that lead.

3) How to transition from a moment of physical print publication to the twin production and public engagement phases of digital publishing.

I can't recall who made this point, but the crux of the shift in scholarship is from a moment of ink being fixed on paper to a conversation, an ongoing process of evolving engagement with the ideas in a text. We had a great discussion on Twitter about the idea of scholarly texts as version-controlled software, where Sharon Leon responded to a comment I made about successive editions as version releases by tweeting, "I'm sure lots of people would like to think that, but there are many bug fixes posing as versions out there."

Regardless of the quality of the changes, the mapping scholarly conventions like citation onto a world of mutable texts is at the heart of changing norms for digital scholarship, and one for which the example of scholarly editions might well be instructive. One could well think of editions not just as being authored but as being maintained; there's always potential for more curation, more talmudic commentary around the material at the heart of an edition. If one removes the requirement for a moment of print fixity in order to facilitate dissemination, then the edition becomes a curated data store, always potentially evolving in a way that resonates with the culture of the web itself.

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