Digital Approaches to Publication by Bibliographical Societies

[erin-elizabeth]

This is a space in which to discuss the logistical concerns relating to a digital publication platform/strategy.

What Do You Mean By Digital Publication?

Throughout the 20th century, the BSA, BibSoc, and BSUVA played important roles establishing and maintaining a tradition of bibliographical practice, research, and scholarship by publishing some of the discipline's standard reference works in print.

How could BSA, perhaps in collaboration with BibSoc and BSUVA, continue that tradition using digital instead of print media?

Ideas on the Table

Could the BSA, BibSoc, and BSUVA work together to create a shared platform for digital publication? What issues would we need to resolve to do this?

1. Hosting – Where does funding come from, and which organization would be responsible?
2. Preservation – What kind of commitment can we make to ensuring that data is available and accessible in perpetuity?
3. Ownership and Licensing
4. Funding – We would need funding for project development, digital design, and maintenance of the site

What else?

[erin-elizabeth]

Here's an expansion of the previous post by new working group member David Pearson:

Digital Approaches to Publication by Bibliographical Societies

What Do You Mean By Digital Publication?
Throughout the 20th century, the BSA, BibSoc, and BSUVA played important roles establishing
and maintaining a tradition of bibliographical practice, research, and scholarship by publishing
some of the discipline's standard reference works in print.

In order to maintain that relevance and leadership, how could BSA, perhaps in collaboration
with BibSoc and BSUVA, continue that tradition using digital instead of print media?

Both BSA and BibSoc have mounted simple flat files online but more sophisticated reference
works need a developed and maintained database-type format.

Ideas on the Table

Could the BSA, BibSoc, and BSUVA work together to create a shared platform for digital
publication? What issues would we need to resolve to do this?

1. Hosting – By the societies directly, or with an academic or commercial partner? Where
   does funding come from, and which organization would be responsible?
2. Preservation – What kind of commitment can we make to ensure that data is available
   and accessible in perpetuity?
3. Ownership and Licensing
4. Funding – We would need funding for project development, digital design, and
   maintenance of the site – the main costs are probably around paying for development
   skills/time, rather than storage/hosting as such
5. Staffing/officer responsibilities – do new roles need to be defined?

[erin-elizabeth]

Check this out:
Dear all,

We are inviting proposals for publication in a new Paper Trails BOOC (Book as
Open Online Content), a fully open access platform which UCL Press describes
as “a living book”. Paper Trails will seek to consider our affective
relationship with research material, juxtaposing critical histories with
reflections on practice. It will focus on work undertaken on collections by
academic researchers, archive, library and educational practitioners and non-
academic communities and audiences. We are interested in a broad geographical
and chronological scope and actively welcome a diverse range of topics and
authors.

We will look to publish material in four streams, which will allow us to set
fully REF compliant academic work alongside work produced by practitioners for
their professional development: research stories, co-production, collection
profiles and engagement. Further details can be found below:

https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-collections/2019/08/23/call-for-papers-for-paper-trails-a-new-open-access-publication-with-ucl-press/

Erika Delbecque
Head of Rare Books
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
☎ 020 7679 7240
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/spec-exhibs-archives
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