BibSonomy publications for /tag/open-accessTue Nov 20 18:31:27 CET 2007Cambridge, MASocial Capital and Information Technology2004tech leaders infotech AI identify KM sociology book collaborate information-sciences info management technology information civic economics IR sociotechnical culture KOLs web-based mutual expert-mapper knowledge self-archiving communications commonality IT internet-based social-sciences essays online OA opensource community creativecommons shared socialnetworking CoPs identification social community-building knowledge-sharing creative-commons heterogeneous multidisciplinary communities MIS collaboration socialcapital commonalities alignment socialnetworks relational networking common CC capital experts knowledge-management teams sharing open_archives computer-science social-science openaccess open-archives CoP open-source internet social-software open-access networks information-science acceptance trust socialware KOL responsibility share social-capital The concept of social capital, or the value that can be derived from social ties created by goodwill, mutual support, shared language, common beliefs, and a sense of mutual obligation, has been applied to a number of fields, from sociology to management. It is only lately, however, that researchers in information technology and knowledge management have begun to explore the idea of social capital in relation to their fields. This collection of thirteen essays by computer scientists, sociologists, communication specialists, economists, and others presents a multidisciplinary look at this particular intersection of information technology and social science and the need to adopt a sociotechnical perspective. For the most part the contributors take a positive view of the interplay of social capital, knowledge sharing, and community building. Some essays look at specific instances, including the on-line and face-to-face relationships of a community of athletes, the building of social capital among Iranian NGOs, and the Internet-based communities created by the open-source movement, while others discuss more general ideas of civic and personal communities. The last four essays examine computer applications that augment social capital, including topic- and member-centered communications spaces such as the Expert Finder and the Loops system and virtual repositories of knowledge such as the Answer Garden and Pearls of Wisdom. Table of Content 1 Social Capital and Information Technology: Current Debates and Research Marleen Huysman and Volker Wulf 1 I Social Capital in Civic Engagement 17 2 Trust, Acceptance, and Alignment: The Role of IT in Redirecting a Community Anna-Liisa Syrjänen and Kari Kuutti 21 3 The Effects of Dispersed Virtual Communities on Face-to-Face Social Capital Anita Blanchard 53 4 Find What Binds: Building Social Capital in an Iranian NGO Community System Markus Rohde 75 5 How Does the Internet Affect Social Capital? Anabel Quan-Haase and Barry Wellman 113Fri Aug 24 13:31:38 CEST 2007Trento, ItalyProceedings SWAP : Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives (2nd : 2005 : Trento)Designing a Semantic Web Path to e-Science2005semweb science open-access This paper aims at designing a possible path of convergence between the Open Access and the Semantic Web communities. In section 1, it focuses on the problems that the current Web has to face to become a fully effective research means, with particular regard to the question of selection according to subjective quality criteria. Section 2 exposes the main principles and standards which lie behind the Open Access movement, and tries to demonstrate that the Open Access community is a fertile ground where to experiment Semantic Web technologies. Finally, section 3 sketches a number of practical strategies and suggests the combination of existing tools for e-Science, in order to create a real Semantic Web of scientific knowledge.Sat Aug 18 13:22:24 CEST 2007Journal of Information Science5333--356RoMEO Studies 2: How Academics Want to Protect their Open-Access Research Papers292003research papers open-access protect This paper is the second in a series of studies (see E. Gadd, C. Oppenheim and S. Probets. RoMEO studies 1: the impact of copyright ownership on author-self-archiving, Journal of Documentation 59(3) (2003) 243-277) emanating from the UK JISC-funded RoMEO Project (Rights Metadata for Open-archiving). It considers the protection for research papers afforded by UK copyright law, and by e-journal licences. It compares this with the protection required by academic authors for open-access research papers as discovered by the RoMEO academic author survey. The survey used the Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) as a framework for collecting views from 542 academics as to the permissions, restrictions and conditions they wanted to assert over their works. Responses from self-archivers and non-archivers are compared. The paper concludes that most academic authors are primarily interested in preserving their moral rights, and that the protection offered research papers by copyright law is way in excess of that required by most academics. It also raises concerns about the level of protection enforced by e-journal licence agreements.open-accessCommunity for tag(s) open-access