Everything We Think Can in Principle Be Thought By Someone Else: A Plea for Scholarship in the Open
by Eileen Joy
Part 4 of a collective essay, "Why We Blog: An Essay in Four Movements," by Jeffrey Cohen, Mary Kate Hurley, Eileen Joy, and Karl Steel. In "E-Medieval: Teaching, Research, and the Net," ed. Orietta da Rold and Elaine Treharne, special issue of Literature Compass (2012)
This essay argues there may be more value in thinking and ‘working through’ our scholarship online, in an 'open'... more This essay argues there may be more value in thinking and ‘working through’ our scholarship online, in an 'open' environment that promotes and invites democratic, catholic, and convivial support, as well as the accidental tourist and silent voyuer, than there is in the traditional ‘finished product’ of a journal article or book. It pleads, further, for a better awareness of the fact that intellectual property is always co-extensive and communal.
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by Lee Worden
Accepted to ITP 2011 Workshop on Mathematical Wikis, August 2011, http://www.cs.ru.nl/mwitp/
WorkingWiki is a software extension for the popular MediaWiki platform that makes a wiki into a powerful environment... more WorkingWiki is a software extension for the popular MediaWiki platform that makes a wiki into a powerful environment for collaborating on publication-quality manuscripts and software projects. Developed in Jonathan Dushoff’s theoretical biology lab at McMaster University and available as free software, it allows wiki users to work together on anything that can be done by using UNIX commands to transform textual “source code” into output. Researchers can use it to collaborate on programs written in R, python, C, or any other language, and there are special features to support easy work on LaTeX documents. It develops the potential of the wiki medium to serve as a combination collaborative text editor, development environment, revision control system, and publishing platform. Its potential uses are open-ended — its processing is controlled by makefiles that are straightforward to customize — and its modular design is intended to allow parts of it to be adapted to other purposes.
