In case others haven't come across this: http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2013/01/13/aaron-swartz.html On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:18 AM, Jodi Schneider <jschneider@pobox.com>wrote:
Since the list is archived, there already is a link. For danah's post, e.g.: http://listserv.aoir.org/pipermail/air-l-aoir.org/2013-January/027073.html
Thanks, danah, for putting to words what many of us were thinking.
-Jodi
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Natalya Godbold <ngodbold@gmail.com>wrote:
[Like!] danah, could you write this into a blog so I can send the link to my friends? xn
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 4:15 PM, danah boyd <aoir.z3z@danah.org> wrote:
Forgive me for laughing, but there's a huge irony in all of this. Aaron hated PDF. It is a commercial proprietary format that cannot be easily parsed by bots. If your goal is to honor Aaron, don't just make your work human readable; make it machine readable by using a text-based markup language. Think: HMTL.
To the broader issues, you'd be amazed at how often you can negotiate copyright with publishers if you try. Not all. Sage is particularly unpleasant. But I've worked hard to keep copyright whenever possible and have succeeded more often than I expected. It's also possible to negotiate alternative licensing agreements with publishers or agreements that have expiration dates where they revert to you. You just need to be proactive about this. But if you look in many of your contracts, you'll see that there's a three year expiration. Some even have an allowance for reposting on websites owned by your employer as the default. Read the legal forms you sign when it comes to your work.
No matter what, if you're a scholar, make a darn website that lists all of your publications. Make it easy for search engines to find you and your work, even if you can't put the article itself online. If you aren't just publishing for the social capital and status games of academia, you have a responsibility to try to make it easier for the public (including the machine public) to know about your work. Getting the articles out there is important but we all know there are institutional bullies that prevent this from being easy. But you can still do a lot to make your work broadly accessible by making it easily findable both for curious humans and machines. This isn't perfect, but it's a better machine-readable organization scheme than just linking to articles on Twitter under an ephemeral hashtag.
danah
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