{"id":443,"date":"2004-07-02T15:55:14","date_gmt":"2004-07-02T19:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=443"},"modified":"2004-07-02T15:55:14","modified_gmt":"2004-07-02T19:55:14","slug":"john-willinski-public-knowledge-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=443","title":{"rendered":"John Willinski: Public Knowledge Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This last weekend I was at the <a title=\"Humanities Computing Summer Institute\" href=\"http:\/\/web.uvic.ca\/hrd\/institute\/curriculum.html\">Humanities Computing Summer Institute<\/a> organized by Ray Siemens at the University of Victoria. I heard a great lecture by John Willinski at UBC on the <a title=\"Public Knowledge Project\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pkp.ubc.ca\/\">Public Knowledge Project<\/a>. This project is developing an open source e-journal tool that allows you to manage the review process and publication. They also have a conference tool. This is worth supporting!<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nIn his talk he gave reasons for open access to knowledge. I probably didn&#8217;t catch them all, but here are the ones I did:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>People have a right to know &#8211; it is a universal right (universal declaration of knowledge)\n<li>Ethical arguement: This is knowledge is generated from public funds (and should therefore be returned to the public)\n<li>Epistemological argument: The quality of knowledge is based on access and distribution. The validity of knowledge is based on its access &#8211; anything that limits the distribution of knowledge limits its value and claims. If you prevent the majority of people from accessing knowledge then how can you claim it is true.\n<li>Huge public intake of information &#8211; especially in health information. A new democratic relationship between knowledge and users is emerging. This is changing how, for example, health information is being designed and so on &#8211; see pubmed.\n<li>It is against the author&#8217;s best interest to publish in closed journals. If you publish in an open journal you are less likely to be cited or quoted. 4 to 5 times more likely to be quoted.\n<li>Legal argument: It can be argued that it hurts the interests of the authors not to be published in an open access journal.\n<li>Is is financially feasible? Yes &#8211; open source publishing tools like those from the PKP project reduce the costs to those of reviewing and editing, which have typically been paid for by academics anyway.<\/ul>\n<p>Later in a demo he showed a context bar that allows one to lookup the keywords for an article in other research resources. (See <a title=\"The Research Support Tool (Overview)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pkp.ubc.ca\/demos\/rsttour\/index.html\">The Research Support Tool (Overview)<\/a>.) A very cool enhancement tool. Can TAPoR create a generalized version of such a tool?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This last weekend I was at the Humanities Computing Summer Institute organized by Ray Siemens at the University of Victoria. I heard a great lecture by John Willinski at UBC on the Public Knowledge Project. This project is developing an open source e-journal tool that allows you to manage the review process and publication. They &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=443\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">John Willinski: Public Knowledge Project<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text-technology-and-tapor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}