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The Force11 members have compiled, and will continue to update, a list of other ongoing efforts to improve digital scholarship.1 You are invited to add to this living document, because we are sure that many other efforts exist, unknown to us. The catalog provides pointers to important papers, relevant blogs government and private sector reports, funding opportunities, policies, domain specific considerations, upcoming and past activities, and organizations.
Relevant papers and books are listed on the Force11 web site http://force11.org. These relate to various aspects of digital scholarship including, but not limited to the reward system, annotation, tools, repositories, text mining, citation of data, textual content in digital form other than research articles (e.g. of eBooks and technical reports), ontologies, metadata standards, semantics, provenance, features of research objects, and workflows.
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Force11 has identified the following actions that will contribute towards fulfilling the vision. Some actions apply to all stakeholders, others only to specific groups.
Improved collaborative practice, which implies:
Increased social media presence
Maximizing informal contacts through conferences, workshops, meetings, calls, webcasts
Joint grant-funded activites leading to the creation of new tools and their description in publications
Other group technology development projects
Coordinated standard and technology development, which implies:
Wholehearted adoption of W3C web standards and core ontologies
Open source development in response to user specifications from relevant stakeholders
Emphasis on reusability and extensibility
Creation of exemplars which act as drivers for future coordinated efforts, thereby insuring creativity and innovation is part of the development effort; such examples might be:
Novel tools that facilitate the use of digital objects
Development of novel metrics to measure non-traditional scholarship
Models for creating useful discipline specific digital repositories
New publishing paradigms
Advocacy, which implies:
Promoting improved digital scholarship through traditional publication and non-traditional means
Participating in appropriate committees and other organizational bodies that can precipitate change
Fundraising for specific activities in support of change in digital scholarship