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Minisymposium “Beyond the scientific paper”

You can find the slides of the presentations below the abstract of each presentation.

New ways of scholarly publishing

Wednesday 26 October 2011, 10:00-13:00h
Eindhoven University of Technology
Multimedia Paviljoen (MMP), room 3
Lunch included 

New ways of scholarly publishing
This minisymposium brought new ways of scholarly publishing to the attention of TU/e researchers. Various issues surrounding enhanced (or executable or adaptive) publications were discussed.

Enhanced publications
Enhanced publications are becoming ever more popular in many fields of science and technology. Enhanced publications are publications – usually textual – that have been enhanced with additional (supplementary) material. The supplementary material may consist, for example, of research data, illustrative images or video, metadata sets, or post-publication data such as comments or rankings. Adding underlying data and models to a paper makes it easier to verify and reproduce, and to re-use results of research while the option of changing post-publication data allows an enhanced publication to develop over the course of time.

Program
There were four presentations from respectively:

  • Jeroen Sondervan, publisher Humanities and Online Projects at Amsterdam University Press;
  • Pieter Van Gorp, TU/e, assistant professor at the School of Industrial Engineering, developer of Share, a platform for supporting executable papers;
  • Paul De Bra, TU/e, professor at the department of Mathematics and Computer Science, head of the Database and Hypermedia Research Group;
  • Sjoerd Miesen, TU/e, repository manager at Information Expertise Centre / Library

Together the four speakers presented an overview of new and exciting ways of academic publishing. The presentations were followed by discussion.

Speakers

Jeroen Sondervan is humanities publisher at Amsterdam University Press. He studies Media & Information Management at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA) and Media & Culture at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). As well as publishing paper books, he works on online projects, Open Access and e-journals at AUP. For the Journal of Archeology in the Low Countries he is currently involved in a long-term project concerning ‘enriched publications’ in online scientific journals.

  • The title of his talk is Scholarly enrichments in the field of archeology.
    Amsterdam University Press (AUP) has recently completed an innovative project that involved the development of enriched publications for the e-journal Journal of Archeology in the Low Countries [JALC; http://www.jalc.nl]. The project was set up to investigate the possibilities with enriched scholarly publications and to develop three actual enriched publications in JALC. His presentation gives an overview of the results achieved within the JALC project and will also give recommendations on how enrichments can lead to new ways of scholarly publishing and the use of datasets in the field of archaeology. In addition he will discuss the limitations and consequences for long-term preservation of these kinds of publications.
  • Click here for the slides of the presentation by Jeroen Sondervan.

Pieter Van Gorp [http://is.ieis.tue.nl/staff/pvgorp/research/] is an assistant professor in the TU/e Information Systems Group. He is investigating the applicability of graph transformation to standard compliant model-driven engineering since 2002. His research interests include model transformation, business process modeling and empirical software engineering. To support this research, he has contributed to MoTMoT tool and more recently to SHARE. Moreover, he has taught courses on modeling and transformation, supported by tools such as CPNtools and AToM3. He participated in the organization of national workshops since 2003 and he has co-organized international workshops such as OCL 2008, GraBaTs 2008-2009, Fujaba Days 2009 and TTC 2010-2011.

  • In his talk, Pieter Van Gorp will outline how SHARE has emerged from a specific sub-discipline of software engineering and why it is gaining increasingly broad acceptance.  He will briefly explain the technical architecture of SHARE as a so-called "cloud computing platform" for executable research papers.  Moreover, he will outline the problems of alternatives such as the open source distribution of research artifacts (software or data).  He will discuss survey results of SHARE users and related new functionality that was recently implemented. Finally, he will discuss ongoing efforts related to project funding and planned integration with Elsevier's ScienceDirect.
  • Click here for the slides of the presentation by Pieter van Gorp.

Paul De Bra [http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/~debra/] is full professor in the TU/e Information Systems Group (Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science). He studied mathematics and computer science at the University of Antwerp and joined the TU/e in December 1989. He researches adaptive (personalized) information systems and services, with applications in e-learning, e-culture, e-business and e-entertainment. He headed the EU GRAPPLE project that combined learning management systems with adaptive learning environments. He is president of User Modeling Inc. and scientific directory of the Dutch Research School SIKS on Information and Knowledge Systems.

  • The title of his talk is Towards the adaptive research paper.
    Information personalization is becoming mainstream. We get personalized newspapers, tv guides, museum guides, etc. What would personalization mean in the context of scientific publications? This talk reports on research into adaptive hypermedia, writing and publishing adaptive research papers, giving adaptive talks and even writing an adaptive PhD thesis. If research papers become personalized, are we all still seeing the same research results? How can we peer-review a paper when we don't know what the reader will see in his/her personalized view? How can we assess an adaptive PhD thesis? Are we pleasing the reader or reporting on scientific results that are independent of the reader and thus don't need personalization? These questions (and more) will be answered.
  • Click here for the slides of the presentation by Paul de Bra.

Sjoerd Miesen (born 1963) studied Chemical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology. In 1994 he gained his PhD at the subdepartment of Organic Chemistry. In 1999 he became faculty librarian in the department of Chemical Engineering. He currently holds the position of information specialist and is closely involved in the development of digital information resources at the TU/e Information Expertise Center (IEC). As Repository Manager he shares responsibility for managing the METIS research data system, the TU/e Repository and the TU/e Employee Pages.

  • The IEC has developed an application for easy contribution of so-called enhanced publications. An enhanced publication is a ‘regular’ (digital) publication including supplementary materials like underlying data sets, images, software coding etc. The application enables researchers to save the publications themselves (e.g. pdf of authors’ versions) as well as supplementary materials in personal archives in which the supplementary materials are assigned with persistent URLs (PURLs). The PURLs thus assigned can be used in the final publications for linking to the additional materials. The full text of publications as well as the supplementary materials can be uploaded into the TU/e repository via Personal Metis. All supplementary materials will then be neatly filed along with the publication at one single location in the repository. This saving facility also provides the answer whether the supplementary materials meet requirements for Open Access.
  • Click here for the slides of the presentation by Sjoerd Miesen.