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Digital libraries and the social web: scholarship

Other Titles
Exploring Digital Libraries, Chapter 9
Author
Calhoun, Karen
Abstract
This chapter of Exploring Digital Libraries is the first of two that consider the responses of digital libraries to the social web and to web-based practices for information seeking, learning, teaching, research, professional recognition, work, recreation and socializing. Both chapters elaborate on ideas introduced in chapters 3 to 8. This chapter’s first part examines the origins and chaotic, fast-moving nature of the social web, explores the possibility of digital libraries as social platforms, and introduces a visual framework that attempts to bring some coherence to the many confusing elements of digital libraries’ evolution toward the social web. The second part of the chapter turns to the branches of the visual framework that pertain to the social web’s existing, emergent, or potential impacts on scholarship, research and researchers.
Description
This is a preprint of a chapter whose final and definitive form was co-published in Exploring Digital Libraries: Foundations, Practice, Prospects by Facet Publishing (2014) and ALA Neal-Schuman (2014).
Date Issued
2013-09-16Publisher
Karen Calhoun
Subject
Digital libraries--Social aspects; Online social networks; Scholarly communication; Bibliometrics; Author identification; Researcher profiling; Reputation
Related Version
Calhoun, Karen. “Digital libraries and the social web: scholarship.” In Exploring Digital Libraries: Foundations, Practice, Prospects. London: Facet Publishing; Chicago: ALA Neal-Schuman, 2014. ISBNs 9781856048200, 1856048209; 9781555709853, 1555709850.
Type
preprint