Lethbridge Journal Incubator: Two positions available for academic year 2012-2013
Posted: September 4, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: employment, Internships and employment, journal incubator, News, Research assistanships Leave a comment » The Lethbridge Journal Incubator is a joint initiative of the University of Lethbridge Library and the School of Graduate Studies under the direction of Professor Daniel Paul O’Donnell in the Department of English. The Incubator provides Graduate Students with Research Assistantships and trains them to act as managing editors and production supervisors for scholarly journals […]Lethbridge Journal Incubator: Two positions available for academic year 2012-2013
Posted: September 4, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: employment, Internships and employment, journal incubator, News, Research assistanships Leave a comment » The Lethbridge Journal Incubator is a joint initiative of the University of Lethbridge Library and the School of Graduate Studies under the direction of Professor Daniel Paul O’Donnell in the Department of English. The Incubator provides Graduate Students with Research Assistantships and trains them to act as managing editors and production supervisors for scholarly journals [...]Digital Studies / Le champ numérique
Posted: September 3, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: digital humanities, digital studies, journal incubator, journals, peer reviewed, SDH/SEMI Leave a comment » Digital Studies / Le champ numérique (ISSN 1918-3666) is a refereed academic journal serving as a formal arena for scholarly activity and as an academic resource for researchers in the digital humanities. DS/CN is published by the Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs (SDH/SEMI), a partner in the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO). DS/CN […]Digital Studies / Le champ numérique
Posted: September 3, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: digital humanities, digital studies, journal incubator, journals, peer reviewed Leave a comment » Digital Studies / Le champ numérique (ISSN 1918-3666) is a refereed academic journal serving as a formal arena for scholarly activity and as an academic resource for researchers in the digital humanities. DS/CN is published by the Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs (SDH/SEMI), a partner in the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO). DS/CN [...]Incubator talk, Canadian Association of Learned Journals, Waterloo May 27, 2012
Posted: June 6, 2012 Filed under: Journal Incubator, Lectures, Projects and Societies, Research | Tags: digital humanities, journal incubator, journals, lectures, Research, scholarly publishing Leave a comment »Here’s a (slightly modified for coherence’s sake) deck from the talk prepared by Gillian Ayers and me for the Canadian Association of Learned Journals meeting in Waterloo ON on May 27, 2012.
When everyone’s super… On gaming the system
Posted: May 18, 2012 Filed under: Essays, Journal Incubator, Projects and Societies, Research | Tags: citations, digital humanities, impact metrics, journal incubator, journals, News, scholarly publishing, scientific publishing Leave a comment »Syndrome: Oh, I’m real. Real enough to defeat you! And I did it without your precious gifts, your oh-so-special powers. I’ll give them heroics. I’ll give them the most spectacular heroics the world has ever seen! And when I’m old and I’ve had my fun, I’ll sell my inventions so that everyone can have powers. Everyone can be super! And when everyone’s super… [chuckles evilly] no one will be.
Here’s a funny little story about how a highly specialised journal gamed journal impact measurements:
The Swiss journal Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica has a good reputation among voice researchers but, with an impact factor of 0.655 in 2007, publication in it was unlikely to bring honour or grant money to the authors’ institutions.
Now two investigators, one Dutch and one Czech, have taken on the system and fought back. They published a paper called ‘Reaction of Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica on the current trend of impact factor measures’ (H. K. Schutte and J. G. Švec Folia Phoniatr. Logo.59, 281–285; 2007). This cited all the papers published in the journal in the previous two years. As ‘impact factor’ is defined as the number of citations to articles in a journal in the past two years, divided by the total number of papers published in that journal over the same period, their strategy dramatically increased Folia‘s impact factor this year to 1.439.In the ‘rehabilitation’ category, shared with 26 other journals, Folia jumped from position 22 to position 13.
Journal incubator
Posted: April 29, 2012 Filed under: Journal Incubator, Projects and Societies, Research | Tags: Computers, journal incubator, scholarly publishing, student training Leave a comment »The Lethbridge Journal Incubator is a pilot project hosted by the University of Lethbridge Library under the direction of Daniel Paul O’Donnell and supported by the University of Lethbridge School of Graduate Study.
The goal of the incubator is to address the issue of the sustainability of scholarly communication in an open access, digital age by aligning it with the educational and research missions of the University.In this way, the production of scholarly communication, which is often understood as a cost centre that draws resources away from a host university’s core missions, is itself transformed into a sustainable, high-impact resource that applies largely existing funding in ways that significantly increase the research and teaching capacity of the institution.
Yii Basic Steps [1]
Posted: April 6, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Computers, journal incubator, scaffolding, Tips, workflow manager, YII Leave a comment »This is just a reminder to myself about setting up a Yii install. There are much more detailed examples on the web.
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Adding an attribute for title to a yii widget
Posted: February 24, 2012 Filed under: Applications, Technical Notes, Yii | Tags: Computers, journal incubator, scaffolding, Tips, workflow manager, YII Leave a comment » The Yii fileview.php by default uses the [zii.widgets.CDetailView] to display all examples of a given model. In the standard scaffolding produced by the gii utility, this widget consists of references to attributes of the model without any further information (e.g. attribute names and the like):
<?php $this->widget('zii.widgets.CDetailView', array( 'data'=>$model, 'attributes'=>array( 'editorialInstance_id', 'journal.shortTitle', // a reference to a relational attribute 'type', 'LastNamesFirstName', // a reference to a compound attribute ), attributeLabels() method in our Model controller. Since that method allows arbitrary names, and since CDetailView attempts to calculate labels on the basis of the attribute name, it is highly likely that the labels for different attributes will get out of synch in different places in your site. To give an example: in this particular case, the model for editorialInstance might have defined the label for editorialInstance_id as “ID” rather than “Editorial Instance”: since CDetailView doesn’t check to see what you had on attributeLabels() in the model class, switching from an edit view to an index will mean that the label of the attribute switches. Read the rest of this entry » Yii Ensuring that key terms are always linked
Posted: February 24, 2012 Filed under: Applications, Technical Notes, Yii | Tags: Computers, journal incubator, linking, scaffolding, Tips, workflow, YII Leave a comment » As we are building our workflow manager, we are discovering that we develop a more intuitive interface if some terms are always hyperlinked and point to a standard presentation of the relational information. One example of this might be names of people associated with the workflow (editors, authors, copyeditors, production assistants). An intuitive internal navigation method seems to be to have the names of these people always hyperlinked with the hyperlink always pointing to the person’s profile page. Read the rest of this entry »Extracting a catalogue of element names from a collection of XML documents using XSLT 2.0
Posted: September 15, 2011 Filed under: Journal Incubator, Projects and Societies, Research, Technical Notes | Tags: Computers, digital humanities, journal incubator, Projects and Societies, scholarly publishing, Tips, xml, xslt Leave a comment »We are trying to build a single stylesheet to work with the documents of two independent journals. In order to get a sense of the work involved, we wanted to create a catalogue of all elements used in the published articles. This means loading as input document directories’ worth of files and then going through extracting and sorting the elements across all the input documents.
Here’s the stylesheet that did it for us. It is probably not maximally optimised, but it currently does what we need.
