Dear Ken,
Thank you for your reply to my post.
I should have used more words to explain what the Research Catalogue (RC) is.
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?
All the best,
Henk
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> Op 8 dec. 2015, om 14:48 heeft Ken Friedman <[log in to unmask]> het volgende geschreven:
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> Dear Henk,
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> Indeed, as I wrote earlier:
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> Based on many years of experience in publishing, I believe that the proposal of a scholar-owned version of Academia is unlikely.
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> You replied to say,
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> —snip—
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> We, i.e the Society for Artistic Research (SAR) and its associated Journal for Artistic Research (JAR), have created just such a platform: the Research Catalogue (RC). The RC is an online, multi-media, Open Access and open source database for (artistic) research…
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> —snip—
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> This is exactly the difference. Academia.edu has more than 29,000,000 subscribers. They have posted over 8,000,000 papers in all disciplines. These papers attracting over 36,000,000 unique visitors each month.
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> The SAR Research Catalogue focuses on artistic research. As such, many researchers across multiple fields will never visit the research catalogue nor use it. There are many fields of design research that differ significantly from the traditions of “artistic research.” People doing those kinds of research simply won’t use the SAR RC. I subscribe to the Research Catalogue for what it offers, but I use Academia.edu far more often for kinds of research that will never appear in the SAR RC.
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> There are some kinds of research that will not be likely to appear in the RC — and I would be interested to see what would happen if the SAR RC suddenly had to scale up from 7,000 users to several millions — or even to several hundred thousands.
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> There are some key differences. The SAR RC is well suited to host and make accessible many kinds of projects that are impossible to present on Academia. Academia provides different kinds of notifications that don’t seem to be possible on the SAR RC.
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> The SAR RC is an interesting project. It does not offer the breadth, range, and diversity of Academia.edu. I believe it remains correct to say that a a scholar-owned version of Academia is unlikely, at least not a version that covers all fields in the way that Academia does.
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> Yours,
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> Ken
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