Dear Henk,
Let me give the question on how to improve the RC some thought and write you.
How many subscribers did Academia start with? At some point, there was only one subscriber. They are up to around 29,000,000 now. The issue is not an argument about numbers, but whether and how the RC has the funding and resources that will allow it to scale up into multiple disciplines.
If you can manage to provide rich media at scale, several fields could benefit from resources that you can provide. The capacity of the RC to support presentations in multiple media mean that RC would be better than Academia for some kinds of research in physics, anthropology, psychology, theater, HCI, mathematics, complexity studies -- nearly any field where presentations of live action or computer simulations is important to understanding research.
Yours,
Ken
Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS | Editor-in-Chief | 设计 She Ji. The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation | Published by Tongji University in Cooperation with Elsevier | URL: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/she-ji-the-journal-of-design-economics-and-innovation/
Chair Professor of Design Innovation Studies | College of Design and Innovation | Tongji University | Shanghai, China ||| University Distinguished Professor | Centre for Design Innovation | Swinburne University of Technology | Melbourne, Australia
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Henk Borgdorff wrote:
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It started in 2010 as the ’Artistic Research Catalogue’ project. And indeed it was developed to meet the needs of artists (and designers btw) to have their research work displayed in a manner that respects artists’ modes of presentation, i.e. with the ownership of the design of the display (not prescribed by others), and with rich-media possibilities. The digital platform was intended to be the backbone of the Journal for Artistic Research, and it still functions in that way (and as backbone of other journals).
Soon it became clear, however, that the platform - now called Research Catalogue, without the ’Artistic' - could also be used by others, by other disciplines as well. There is no restriction as to who can use the RC. The RC belongs to the category of so-called enhanced web publication platforms, but is more radical then any enhanced publication I came across, in the sense that the way content is displayed is completely decided by the author. There is now editor or company (such as Academia.edu) that prescribes the layout of the material (texts, images, audio, video).
You are right, the RC is now mainly used to document, publish and disseminate research by artists, but we envision that other disciplines who are interested in documenting, publishing and disseminating research in a rich-media format, and with their own ideas about how to display content, might find the RC a useful Open Access platform.
Ken, you write ’Academia provides different kinds of notifications that don’t seem to be possible in the SAR RC.’
As I said, the RC is under permanent development, and we are eager to learn from other online platforms, social media etc. what features we can build into the platform, in order to meet the needs of scholars from different disciplines. I am not sure what ’notifications’ you mean, but we have introduced recently features like feeds. follow, commenting etc. If you can advise us about the ’breath, range and diversity’ we should develop, please do so.
Maybe interesting for you as well is the renewal of the user profile page. It now not only can list ’expositions’ (rich-media publications), but also what we call ’works’, i.e. entities (identified through metadata) that can function as collections of media, for instance art objects, but also events or… pdf publications..
When you look to my profile page you will see no rich-media expositions, but you will see some publications, most of them downloadable.
Regarding the argument about numbers: I have no idea with how many subscribers Academia has started. Do you?
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