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Is Web 2.0 Changing Publishing Forever?

Kristen Fisher Ratan

HighWire Press

May 18, 2008

CSE Meeting

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About HighWire

• HighWire is a department of Stanford University Libraries

• “Not for profit, not for loss, not for sale”• Founded in 1995 and entirely self-funding

from 1996 onwards• Staff of more than 130 to deliver technology

and services to publishers• Launched H2O e-publishing platform in 2008

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Is Web 2.0 Changing Publishing?

• From Authoring to Linking, it’s all being reinvented– Expert authors – user-generated content– Peer review – user ranking and reviews– Editors – recommendation and organization

systems– Subject publications – blogs, uber-blogs

• What can we learn from it all?

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The New Authoring?

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450,000 individually

authored pages on all topics

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The New Editing and Peer Review?

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Helium: Grass-roots Peer-review?

Over 100,000 writers

contributing on dozens of topics

Anonymous rating system of

other articles within your topic

area

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Wikiprofessional's Concept Web

Organization of accumulated

knowledge into units called

Knowlets

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Baynote Determining users’

true intent and making

recommendations

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Indexing, Connecting, Contextualizing

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Blogs and uber-blogs

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The New Impact Factors?

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Find out who is blogging about you

http://www.technorati.com/search/www.highwire.org?sort=authority

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The New Publishers?Or Aggregators?

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Provides tools for people to aggregate, organize, read, and

share RSS feeds they are subscribed to

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Social Poster

Submits your links to over 20 popular social bookmarking websites automatically, creating new accounts for you

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The New ePublishing Platforms?

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Scribd and Drupal

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Thank You!