Making the LEAP: Linking E-Archives and E-Publications

Julian Richards

University of York

Making the LEAP - Objectives

1.Provide a novel and imaginative additional form of dissemination for four existing research projects of high academic quality.

(Priority will be given to the outputs of AHRC research grant and resource enhancement projects).

Making the LEAP - Objectives

2.Investigate the ways in which e-publications can be interactive, multi-layered and underpinned by supporting data, in a range of formats – databases, GIS, VR, digital audio and video etc.

Making the LEAP - Objectives

3.Look at how multiple forms of dissemination can be used for different audiences

4.Explore questions of linking between distributed archives and publications

Making the LEAP - Objectives

• 5. Examine questions which arise from this new means of dissemination, and provide guidelines and promote best practice which is applicable across the arts and humanities, including:– Editorial questions – how far do e-archives need the level of

quality control required of an e-publication? How is peer review to be deployed? How is intellectual credit to be given?

– Citation issues – how should e-publications and e-archives be referenced?

– Copyright and rights issues – how should these be dealt with?– Sustainability – how far are tailored interfaces capable of long-

term preservation?– Culture change – how is the community to be encouraged to

adopt such approaches?