Tag Team and the Open Access Tracking Project
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The document discusses the Tag Team & Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) developed by Heather Morrison and Peter Suber at Harvard, focusing on open-source software and collaborative research through a folksonomy-ontology model. It highlights user engagement through tagging, alerting, and sharing content, alongside the project's alignment with modern media evolution and W3C design principles. Additionally, it includes references to media theory and the project's goals of enhancing access to open access resources.
Tag Team and the Open Access Tracking Project
- 1. Tag Team & Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) http://tagteam.harvard.edu/remix/oatp/items • Tag Team: open source software • folksonomy in, ontology out • ontology = standard vocabulary • e.g.: oa.journals official tag; oa.journal automatically converted • facilitates research group collaboration • developed by Suber & colleagues at Harvard Heather Morrison Associate Professor, University of Ottawa School of Information Studies https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/?lang=en#/members/706 Developed for ISI 6351, social media, spring 2018 With substantive corrections & additions by Peter Suber. All remaining errors by Heather Morrison http://bit.ly/tagteam-harvard http://bit.ly/o-a-t-p
- 2. Alerting, sharing, collating service– two user groups: taggers & readers • Alerting: • web http://tagteam.harvard.edu/remix/oatp/items • twitter: @oatp • feeds: https://cyber.harvard.edu/hoap/OATP_feeds (RSS, Atom, JSON + 5) • Sharing: • crowdsourced tagging – join instructions here bit.ly/oatp-start-tagging • Collating: • tweetable link to all items on OA in Ethiopia http://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/tag/oa.ethiopia
- 3. OATP in media evolution • non-linearity of Scolari’s (2013) media evolution model: borrows from and adds to contemporary media (folksonomy, twitter, JSON, etc.) • fits W3C (2016) design principle of “web for rich interaction” & vision of “one web” • “mass self-regulating learning process…made possible by the electronic media” Enzensberger (1974, p. 106) • emerging phase (Scolari); innovation / early adopters (Stöber, 2004) Enzensberger, H. M. (1974). Constituents of a theory of the media. In: The consciousness industry on literature, politics and the media (pp. 95-118). Scolari, C. (2013). Media evolution: emergence, dominance, survival and extinction in the media ecology. International Journal of Communication 7, 1418-1441. Retrieved April 16, 2018 from http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/1919 Stöber, R. (2004). What media evolution is: a theoretical approach to the history of new media. European Journal of Communication 19:4: 483-505. doi:10.1177/0267323104049461. W3C (2016). Mission. Retrieved April 16, 2018 from https://www.w3.org/Consortium/mission.html
Editor's Notes
- #2: Hi! I am Heather Morrison . My topic is Tag Team and the Open Access Tracking Project or OATP, developed by Peter Suber and colleagues at Harvard. I chose Tag Team because I am a tagger and reader. I would like to thank Suber for feedback on a draft of this presentation. Tag team is open source software and is designed as an extension of folksonomy or user tagging. The advance of tag team is ontology or standard vocabulary. For example, in order to gather items tagged as being about open journals, the official tag is oa.journal. If tagger types oa.journals, this is automatically corrected. On this slide is an excerpt of the OATP webpage with two items by two different taggers, one about copyright reform in the EU and the other about Couperin cutting their subscriptions big deal with Springer. :51:44
- #3: Taggers and readers use OATP for alerting, sharing, and collating information on open access. Readers can keep up with developments by going to the web site, following on twitter, or one of 8 other feeds, including RSS, Atom, and JSON. I follow OATP on twitter, receive daily e-mail updates, and use the web site. Many readers might want to become taggers. It’s a great way to alert others about OA developments in your region or area of interest. As a tagger, I can alert interested readers about my research updates as soon as they are published. New taggers are welcome; the URL for instructions to join is in the middle of this. The standard vocabulary makes it possible to gather together or collate all of the items on a particular topic. For example, if you happen to want to tweet a link to all of the items about open access in Ethiopia, tag team makes this possible. :55
- #4: Tag team demonstrates the non-linearity of Scolari’s media evolution model, borrowing from and contributing to contemporary media. Twitter enriches OATP and vice versa. OATP reflects the W3C vision of “one web” and similar visions of earlier writers such as Enzensberger. Tag Team demonstrates the W3C design principle of “web for rich interaction”, reflected socially in the OATP community and technologically through the interaction with many different technologies. I see Tag Team and OATP as being in an emerging process as described by Scolari or the innovation or early adopter phase as described by Stöber. The technology is well developed, but the community is just beginning the growth process. Given the global growth of open access and the need for a service like this, I am confident that OATP will grow to become a mature service within the next few years. :56:99