Open Access Week in Croatia: Who is the Author 2.0?

This year, the 2nd Open Access Week event will be held at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka, Croatia on Tuesday, Oct 23rd, at 6 p.m.

For more information visit OAYarn.

Round Table: Who is the Author 2.0?

Speakers: Senka Tomljanovi? (University Library Rijeka), Kristina Posilovi?, Sara Uha?, David Blaževi?, Boris Ruži?, Bernard Koludrovi?

Moderator/s: Katarina Lovre?i?, Matko Hrvatin

 

Writing unfolds like a game that invariably goes beyond its own rules and transgresses its limits.(Michel Foucault, What is an Author)

The internet technology inspires the idea of a digital age, the age of Web 2.0 – the age of a “roaring machine”. The machine certainly changed the way scholars do their work, but did less, or is doing more slowly, to change how the scholarly value system works. However, scholars are beginning to rethink impact, and are even looking into multiple and different n-dimensional impact spaces. All the information that we can collect on the web and share with readers is not the information that could once fit between the covers of a scientific journal. A scientific discovery may no longer be up to a single person, but a group of scientists can collectively claim to understand separate pieces of a scientific discovery.

But, how many scholars have really moved their work onto the web? How many of them are using social networks to communicate and share their ideas? How can they better understand the meaning of a shared fragment, to find the missing one or repair one. Should we take into account the influence of a single scholar on Twitter or Facebook, while we study his scholarly impact? If one does nothing but – collaborates, how can we fairly credit his work?

More importantly, can an author benefit from making his work available online, by making his work open access? And if so, can he adjust “the machine” to count more than just stats? What counts, then? The impact of an article as a whole, or the progress made because of a separate piece of information in this article?

The option to choose “what counts?” is one of the features of a digital age, the age which creates digital, living texts online – texts that do unfold like a game, texts that can be re-read, re-written, texts that can stay open-ended. And how does this change the role of – authorship? How can an author caught inside the web of a networked culture – defined by a copy, by remixing and sharing, continue to exist as a distinguished author among his fellow scholars? Is it finally time for the academy to welcome the emergence of the Author 2.0?

 

Useful links: Impact Story, Planned Obsolence, Michael Nielsen’s Blog

 

Round table text in Croatian:

Okrugli stol: Tko je autor 2.0?

Utorak 23. listopada, u 18h
u prostoriji 207 Filozofskog fakulteta u Rijeci

Govornici: Senka Tomljanovi? (Sveu?ilišna knjižnica Rijeka), Kristina Posilovi? (Pokojni), Sara Uha? (Izdava?ka akademija), David Blaževi? (BAST), Boris Ruži? (tportal), Bernard Koludrovi? (?emu)

Moderatori: Katarina Lovre?i?, Matko Hrvatin

 

“Pisanje se otvara kao igra koja konstantno mijenja svoja pravila i prevazilazi svoje granice.” (Michel Foucalt, S?to je autor)

Nac?in na koji uc?enjaci pis?u radove zasigurno se promijenio u dobu koje karakterizira brzi razvoj internetske tehnologije. Ipak, sustav kojim mjerimo vrijednost takvih radova ostaje trom, iako je potrebno brz?e rjes?enje. U tom je kontekstu moz?da vaz?no domenu u kojoj vrijednost tih radova nastaje sagledati kao mrez?u, zato s?to se i samo istraz?ivanje koje im prethodi odvija na mrez?i. Da je vrijednost utkana u vis?enamjenskom, n-dimenzionalnom virtualnom prostoru u kojoj rad dopire do c?itateljske publike ali i proizvodi odjek u znanstvenome svijetu. Kao s?to informacije koje se sakupljaju vis?e ne moz?emo smjestiti izme?u korica c?asopisa, tako moz?da pojedino znanstveno otkric?e ne ovisi vis?e o jednom c?ovjeku vec? o grupi znanstvenika koji kroz suradnju mogu zasebno razumjeti zasebne djelic?e znanosti. S?to se zaista promijenilo za znanstvenika koji aktivno koristi internet, odnosno, koliko je njih uopc?e aktivnih korisnika tehnologija? Na koji nac?in znanstvenici komuniciraju da bi uvidjeli s?to ti zasebni djelic?i znac?e za cjelinu, za validno znanstveno otkric?e? Hoc?e li te informacije oni podijeliti i me?usobno raspraviti na Twitteru, Facebooku, forumima? Treba li se taj odjek s drus?tvenih mrez?a uzeti u obzir kada ocjenjujemo pravi utjecaj znanstvenika? Kako kasnije moz?emo pravedno dijeliti zasluge za takav kolaboracijski rad?

Pitanje koje postavljamo je hoc?e li znanstvenici buduc?ih naras?taja napredovati u akademskoj karijeri kroz otvaranje svojih radova na internetu, c?inec?i ih dostupnima svima. Moz?emo li sukladno tome nauc?iti i tehnologijsku mas?inu da mjeri vis?e od samog broja? Primjerice, ne da tek mjeri trenutke u kojima se autor pojavljuje kao citiran i referenciran na mrez?i, vec? da mjeri s?to je vaz?no. A s?to je to vaz?no? Da li da sagledavamo znanstveni c?lanak kao cjelinu ili da ocjenjujemo zasebne djelic?e informacije koje rad sadrz?i? Taj si izbor moz?emo dozvoliti sada kada ne stvaramo rad koji postoji samo u analognom obliku, vec? u digitalnom, kao jedan otvoren, “z?ivuc?i” tekst u kojem se onda pisanje zaista odvija kao svojevrsna igra koja nikad ne zavrs?ava, s tekstom koji se moz?e ispravljati, nadopisivati, nadogra?ivati multimedijalnim sadrz?ajem. Mijenja li to bitno ulogu samog autorstva? Traz?i li to znac?ajan odmak od nas?eg dosadas?njeg razmis?ljanja o samom tekstu? Kako onda prevesti tekst stvoren na mrez?i, u kulturi kojom dominira ideja “kopije” i dijeljenja, u nes?to s?to je vrijedno i cijenjeno i u akademskoj zajednici? A upravo se tu zajednicu mora nagnati da prigrli promjene koje diktiraju inovacije u tehnologiji kako ne bi usporavala brzinu dolazaka do znanstvenih otkric?a.

 

Korisne poveznice: Impact Story, Planned Obsolence, Michael Nielsen’s Blog

Share Open Access Worldwide: A Reflexive Documentary Coming Soon! – Describing Open Access Week in Croatia

SHOW 2011 (share/openaccess/worldwide) was the first-of-its-kind event to celebrate Open Access Week in Croatia, organized by InTech’s Katarina Lovrecic and Ana Nodilo at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

We tried to catch a glimpse of the future age where sharing is done digitally, information can flow freely and we can decide to either build barriers to contain it or give open access to share it – worldwide. We have seen ideas floating among students and have preserved them in a jar. Now we want to open this jar, share it with you and start up a story.

Coming soon to your collection of videos with no rights reserved – a SHOW documentary will reflect on how students in Croatia were introduced to the Copyleft movement, Creative Commons licensing, Open Projects, Open Content movement, Open Access movement and the Right to Research Coalition action. Stay tuned, for we may offer you a New Year Surprise and include you in a conversation about a chance for the world of open values.

 

 

 

First Open Access Week at the University Campus in Rijeka, Croatia

SHOW (Share/OpenAccess/Worldwide) will be the first-of-its-kind event to celebrate Open Access Week in Croatia, held through October, 26 to October 27th 2011 at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences within the University Campus in Rijeka, Croatia.

The idea is to raise awareness among Croatian students about the importance of free flow of information and open access to research literature, which is not a familiar term, by raising questions about what students are already well familiar with, i.e., intellectual property.

The students will be introduced to Copyleft movement, Creative Commons licensing, Open Projects, Open Content movement, Open Access movement and the Right to Research Coalition action and they will be invited to join the debate about the chances for the world of open values.

 

More information about the SHOW and the landing page will be presented soon!

 

Some of the activities (with possible alterations) are listed below and more are to be announced. Hopefully, you will join our effort to push the OA movement forward!

 

Wednesday, October 26

1. Tomislav Medak: Creative Commons Licensing/ iCommons

Tomislav Medak is a philosopher with interests in constellations, contemporary political philosophy, media theory and aesthetics. He is co-ordinating theory program and publishing activities of the Multimedia Institute/MAMA (Zagreb, Croatia). He’s a free software and free culture advocate. He’s project lead of Croatian Creative Commons team and board member of international commons organization iCommons. He’s member of urban activist initiative Right to the City. He is a member of the Zagreb based theatre company BADco.

2. Round Table: Intellectual Property in a Digital Age

Tomislav Medak, Philosophy professors, Law professors, Science, Medicine, Technology professors, students

3. Aleksandar Blagojevic – Leader and Founder of Pirate Party Serbia: Digital Freedom and Open Projects

4. Right to Research Coalition Webcast:
Goldis Chami: Students at the University of British Columbia

Goldis Chami is a medical student at the University of British Columbia and a member of the Right to Research Coalition Steering Committee. She has led the charge for her institution to adopt an openaccess policy and serves on its Scholarly Communications Steering Committee.  She is also actively working to get more Canadian students involved in promoting Open Access and to support local advocacy efforts through her work on a forthcoming on-campus advocacy guide.  She writes regularly for The Global and Mail about medical training and healthcare.

5. Movie: Rip Remix! Manifesto

Thursday, October 27

Publishing Open Access:

1. Sara Uhac and the Publishing Academy Rijeka: Publish Open Access
Special Focus on PhD Students

 

Sara Uhac is a PhD Researcher in Communication Sciences, enrolled in a PhD course at the University of Lugano specializing in Publishing Studies. Together with her higher studies, she currently holds the position of Head of Journal Publishing at InTech – Open Access Publisher, and she is responsible for determining, implementing and managing the publishing strategy for 50+ OA STM journals.

 

2. Bernard Koludrovic: “Drugost”
open access journal presentation

3. Free Energy: Introduction to Free Energy: Project Presentation
Professors and students @ Faculty of Technology and Engineering, Rijeka, Croatia

4. Debate: A Remix Manifesto: Digital Music and Piracy

 

5. Movie: Steal This Film

6. Ducks Records: Musical plus Visual Performance
a collective of artists and non-artists/free music and video online
 

 

All Day Activities: Wednesday, Thursday:

  • Art Academy Students: “Free Information” Exhibition and Voting
  • Animations
  • Interactive Book Download
  • Peek and Poke Booth
  • Pirate Booth
  • Student Union Booths
  • Creating an Open Access Comic
  • Right to Research Petition Booth

Stay tuned!