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 On Jan 14, 2013, at 5:38 PM, Burcu Bakioglu wrote:

Hi all, I have to say, this incident came as a big shock to me as it did for all of us. And I appreciate and support the tribute, don't get me wrong. But couple of concerns come to my mind as we're dumping all of our research online. And I'd like to discuss this instead of sitting quietly in the corner:

1) I know this is a very emotional time for all of us, but when you are putting your published articles online, do you have the rights to it? I mean, clearly, any publisher who goes after any of the researchers amidst the heated debate led by Lawrence Lessig and other activists right now would be insane. Media would attack them like vultures, but still, I wonder if we are putting ourselves at risk. What happens when the dust settles? Now, we may not care about this at all since apparently Aaron didn't. And maybe that is the appropriate attitude. After all we are engaging in civil disobedience, right? But this is worth discussing. If you are a known researcher, surely you can weather the consequences, but the up-and-coming ones are at a higher risk.

2) Secondly, are we doing this merely as a gesture or so that the academic community at large and the entire world could benefit from this? From what I gather, Aaron would have preferred the latter. If so, looking at the pdftribute site, it is nearly impossible to retrieve the articles relevant to one's own research unless you know the twitter handles. Internet was of no use until it was organized and this repository would be no use to any of us until it is indexed. Now maybe the site owner has plans to incorporate this, I dunno. At the bottom of the site, it says that s/he is not responsible for the quality of content and that s/he will look into it later. I don't know what that might mean... Or maybe this is set up just as a gesture/protest and we don't care about what happens afterwords. In which case, it is rather short sighted of us, but that's OK... Point has been made.

I myself am planning on dedicating the current article that I am writing (on piracy no less) to him... and signed a petition or two. And am seriously considering taking Alex's suggestion and publishing in open-access journals as much as I can. But would like to hear your thoughts on these issues...

BsB

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Jessica Richman <jessica.richman@gmail.com>wrote:

...

Thanks, Denice. Much appreciated, and hope it will do some good.

On 14 January 2013 22:08, Denice Szafran <szafran@geneseo.edu> wrote:

...

I posted links to all my online material right after it went out on Twitter. It seems to be a fitting tribute, and I encourage everyone to do the same. #pdftribute

Denice Szafran

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On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 3:58 AM, Jessica Richman <jessica.richman@gmail.com>**wrote:

...

Please tweet #pdftribute and post your papers online in tribute to Aaron

...

Swartz, who committed suicide yesterday, after being hounded by prosecutors in the US.

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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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On 01/15/2013 12:15 AM, danah boyd wrote:

To the broader issues, you'd be amazed at how often you can negotiate copyright with publishers if you try.

Indeed. For people interested in taking the steps to make their work open access, our own Peter Suber offers much clarity and guidance in his book of the same name. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap/Open_Access_(the_book) Also, this was in the news yesterday. Harvard has taken another step on the open access front, encouraging its researchers to resign from "toll access" journals. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/24/harvard-university-journal-pub...

Exasperated by rising subscription costs charged by academic publishers, Harvard University has encouraged its faculty members to make their research freely available through open access journals and to resign from publications that keep articles behind paywalls. A memo from Harvard Library to the university's 2,100 teaching and research staff called for action after warning it could no longer afford the price hikes imposed by many large journal publishers, which bill the library around $3.5m a year. ...

Don't get me wrong - this whole thing is bittersweet. Aaron was a friend of mine and I'm having a hard time coming to terms with his death. But I'm also grateful that people are taking up some of his fights. I feel like academics have been far too complacent about how their speech/knowledge has been manipulated and controlled for broader interests. The tenure track process, rather than creating a timeline where people could feel freedom, has made certain that cohort after cohort of intellects turn into sheep - bitter as hell and unable to fight for fear of being slaughtered before they reach the supposed promise land. Countless scholars bow down to the publishers for fear that non-compliance might mean that they aren't published and that might mean a black mark on their CV which might mean they don't get a chance at the promised land. I get it. I get how the subtle forms of power operate within academia that produce this. And I also get that I've refused to play by the rules and I've had great success that's not necessarily reproducible by other people. Aaron thought universities were a sham and that professors had stopped being intellectuals. We used to fight about how there was more to a university setting than the classroom, but I could never convince him of this. He felt he could learn more and be more stimulated on his own than wasting his time dealing with an institution focused on its circular interests than truly advancing knowledge. He was brilliant. He knew how to ask questions and get at the crux of an issue like few people I've ever known. Aaron was first and foremost an activist. But he was also an intellectual. And he believed that locking down knowledge was corrupt and corrupting. He wanted to free the world's information so that prodigious individuals around the world could do what he had done - voraciously consume ideas and learn outside of an institution corrupted by money, status games, and non-intellectual interests. Aaron was for more radical than I am. He respected my small steps to making all of my intellectual production publicly available and constantly fighting for OA, but he thought that they were not enough. He wanted to see true systemic change. And he was willing to create stunts to provoke that. I'm grateful to see any act of activism focused on making knowledge more accessible. I'm glad people are taking the time to learn about these issues and think about their knowledge production. And I do hope that this sparks more people to make changes in their practices. But the thing that I'd ask everyone in academia to reflect on in light of Aaron's death is your role in reproducing the status quo. What are your stakes? What do you believe in? How are you going to fight to do what's right? What are you willing to lose? Cuz the biggest tribute I can imagine is seeing academics rise up and collectively challenge the status quo across a whole host of issues, especially at this time when the politics of universities are in a complete state of disarray. Actually, truly organize. But maybe that's a pipe dream. danah On Jan 15, 2013, at 8:54 AM, Jessica Richman wrote:

danah,

As one of the people who helped spark the #pdftribute movement, I'm a bit chagrined to hear that. I didn't know Aaron's thoughts on the PDF format, but they make total sense. Of course he wouldn't like a proprietary, non-machine-readable format! Right.

Well, now that we've started this thing, I hope this does in fact move the cause of open academic scholarship forward. People have been working on this for a long time, and some people have been extra conscientious about contracts (which is very important), but maybe this will provide the spark that will cause many people to come together to make this happen.

I know we all have way too many projects, but if you're interested in being a part of this in any way, we'd love to have your help and thoughts (and maybe we can make sure the archive is HTML instead of PDF!)

Best, Jessica

On 15 January 2013 05:15, 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

On Jan 14, 2013, at 5:38 PM, Burcu Bakioglu wrote:

...

Hi all, I have to say, this incident came as a big shock to me as it did for all of us. And I appreciate and support the tribute, don't get me wrong. But couple of concerns come to my mind as we're dumping all of our research online. And I'd like to discuss this instead of sitting quietly in the corner:

1) I know this is a very emotional time for all of us, but when you are putting your published articles online, do you have the rights to it? I mean, clearly, any publisher who goes after any of the researchers amidst the heated debate led by Lawrence Lessig and other activists right now would be insane. Media would attack them like vultures, but still, I wonder if we are putting ourselves at risk. What happens when the dust settles? Now, we may not care about this at all since apparently Aaron didn't. And maybe that is the appropriate attitude. After all we are engaging in civil disobedience, right? But this is worth discussing. If you are a known researcher, surely you can weather the consequences, but the up-and-coming ones are at a higher risk.

2) Secondly, are we doing this merely as a gesture or so that the academic community at large and the entire world could benefit from this? From what I gather, Aaron would have preferred the latter. If so, looking at the pdftribute site, it is nearly impossible to retrieve the articles relevant to one's own research unless you know the twitter handles. Internet was of no use until it was organized and this repository would be no use to any of us until it is indexed. Now maybe the site owner has plans to incorporate this, I dunno. At the bottom of the site, it says that s/he is not responsible for the quality of content and that s/he will look into it later. I don't know what that might mean... Or maybe this is set up just as a gesture/protest and we don't care about what happens afterwords. In which case, it is rather short sighted of us, but that's OK... Point has been made.

I myself am planning on dedicating the current article that I am writing (on piracy no less) to him... and signed a petition or two. And am seriously considering taking Alex's suggestion and publishing in open-access journals as much as I can. But would like to hear your thoughts on these issues...

BsB

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Jessica Richman <jessica.richman@gmail.com>wrote:

...

Thanks, Denice. Much appreciated, and hope it will do some good.

On 14 January 2013 22:08, Denice Szafran <szafran@geneseo.edu> wrote:

...

I posted links to all my online material right after it went out on Twitter. It seems to be a fitting tribute, and I encourage everyone to do the same. #pdftribute

Denice Szafran

On 1/13/2013 6:01 PM, air-l-request@listserv.aoir.**org< air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org>wrote:

...

On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 3:58 AM, Jessica Richman <jessica.richman@gmail.com>**wrote:

...

Please tweet #pdftribute and post your papers online in tribute to Aaron > Swartz, who committed suicide yesterday, after being hounded by prosecutors > in the US.

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Yes, danah, very well said. Thanks for responding, Sam! I agree with many of Aaron's sentiments. It's true that the academic system that we work in is totally broken as an educational, credentialing, and knowledge generating system, and that we have a lot of work to do to fix it. I think we can do this -- it's not a pipe dream. There have been many movements that finally changed a corrupt system with the spark of a tragic event. I hope this is one of them. It's also, like you said, really bittersweet to have the immediate reaction to someone's death be a movement about distributing PDFs of all things. I mean, there wasn't a lot of time for mourning before all of these movements and fixes came out. Maybe that's what he would have wanted -- I didn't know him as well as you did. But we should also just take a collective deep breath and say, "Wow, what an amazing person that was who left us." The world is far poorer without him. There's so much more to say and to do on this subject, but I'm glad that we're carrying the conversation forward. Jessica On 17 January 2013 15:24, Samuel Klein <meta.sj@gmail.com> wrote:

Danah, this is beautifully articulated. Of course we should fix these things.

Doing so is no pipe dream. It is bound to happen, and what better tile than in our generation? But even if it were, it would be one worth chasing. On Jan 15, 2013 10:24 AM, "danah boyd" <aoir.z3z@danah.org> wrote:

...

Don't get me wrong - this whole thing is bittersweet. Aaron was a friend of mine and I'm having a hard time coming to terms with his death. But I'm also grateful that people are taking up some of his fights. I feel like academics have been far too complacent about how their speech/knowledge has been manipulated and controlled for broader interests. The tenure track process, rather than creating a timeline where people could feel freedom, has made certain that cohort after cohort of intellects turn into sheep - bitter as hell and unable to fight for fear of being slaughtered before they reach the supposed promise land. Countless scholars bow down to the publishers for fear that non-compliance might mean that they aren't published and that might mean a black mark on their CV which might mean they don't get a chance at the promised land. I get it. I get how the subtle forms of power operate within academia that produce this. And I also get that I've refused to play by the r ules and I've had great success that's not necessarily reproducible by other people.

Aaron thought universities were a sham and that professors had stopped being intellectuals. We used to fight about how there was more to a university setting than the classroom, but I could never convince him of this. He felt he could learn more and be more stimulated on his own than wasting his time dealing with an institution focused on its circular interests than truly advancing knowledge. He was brilliant. He knew how to ask questions and get at the crux of an issue like few people I've ever known.

Aaron was first and foremost an activist. But he was also an intellectual. And he believed that locking down knowledge was corrupt and corrupting. He wanted to free the world's information so that prodigious individuals around the world could do what he had done - voraciously consume ideas and learn outside of an institution corrupted by money, status games, and non-intellectual interests. Aaron was for more radical than I am. He respected my small steps to making all of my intellectual production publicly available and constantly fighting for OA, but he thought that they were not enough. He wanted to see true systemic change. And he was willing to create stunts to provoke that.

I'm grateful to see any act of activism focused on making knowledge more accessible. I'm glad people are taking the time to learn about these issues and think about their knowledge production. And I do hope that this sparks more people to make changes in their practices. But the thing that I'd ask everyone in academia to reflect on in light of Aaron's death is your role in reproducing the status quo. What are your stakes? What do you believe in? How are you going to fight to do what's right? What are you willing to lose? Cuz the biggest tribute I can imagine is seeing academics rise up and collectively challenge the status quo across a whole host of issues, especially at this time when the politics of universities are in a complete state of disarray. Actually, truly organize. But maybe that's a pipe dream.

danah

On Jan 15, 2013, at 8:54 AM, Jessica Richman wrote:

...

danah,

As one of the people who helped spark the #pdftribute movement, I'm a bit chagrined to hear that. I didn't know Aaron's thoughts on the PDF format, but they make total sense. Of course he wouldn't like a proprietary, non-machine-readable format! Right.

Well, now that we've started this thing, I hope this does in fact move the cause of open academic scholarship forward. People have been working on this for a long time, and some people have been extra conscientious about contracts (which is very important), but maybe this will provide the spark that will cause many people to come together to make this happen.

I know we all have way too many projects, but if you're interested in being a part of this in any way, we'd love to have your help and thoughts (and maybe we can make sure the archive is HTML instead of PDF!)

Best, Jessica

On 15 January 2013 05:15, 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

On Jan 14, 2013, at 5:38 PM, Burcu Bakioglu wrote:

...

Hi all, I have to say, this incident came as a big shock to me as it did for all of us. And I appreciate and support the tribute, don't get me wrong. But couple of concerns come to my mind as we're dumping all of our research online. And I'd like to discuss this instead of sitting quietly in the corner:

1) I know this is a very emotional time for all of us, but when you are putting your published articles online, do you have the rights to it? I mean, clearly, any publisher who goes after any of the researchers amidst the heated debate led by Lawrence Lessig and other activists right now would be insane. Media would attack them like vultures, but still, I wonder if we are putting ourselves at risk. What happens when the dust settles? Now, we may not care about this at all since apparently Aaron didn't. And maybe that is the appropriate attitude. After all we are engaging in civil disobedience, right? But this is worth discussing. If you are a known researcher, surely you can weather the consequences, but the up-and-coming ones are at a higher risk.

2) Secondly, are we doing this merely as a gesture or so that the academic community at large and the entire world could benefit from this? From what I gather, Aaron would have preferred the latter. If so, looking at the pdftribute site, it is nearly impossible to retrieve the articles relevant to one's own research unless you know the twitter handles. Internet was of no use until it was organized and this repository would be no use to any of us until it is indexed. Now maybe the site owner has plans to incorporate this, I dunno. At the bottom of the site, it says that s/he is not responsible for the quality of content and that s/he will look into it later. I don't know what that might mean... Or maybe this is set up just as a gesture/protest and we don't care about what happens afterwords. In which case, it is rather short sighted of us, but that's OK... Point has been made.

I myself am planning on dedicating the current article that I am writing (on piracy no less) to him... and signed a petition or two. And am seriously considering taking Alex's suggestion and publishing in open-access journals as much as I can. But would like to hear your thoughts on these issues...

BsB

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Jessica Richman <jessica.richman@gmail.com>wrote:

...

Thanks, Denice. Much appreciated, and hope it will do some good.

On 14 January 2013 22:08, Denice Szafran <szafran@geneseo.edu> wrote:

...

I posted links to all my online material right after it went out on Twitter. It seems to be a fitting tribute, and I encourage everyone to do the same. #pdftribute

Denice Szafran

On 1/13/2013 6:01 PM, air-l-request@listserv.aoir.**org< air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org>wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 3:58 AM, Jessica Richman > <jessica.richman@gmail.com>**wrote: > >> Please tweet #pdftribute and post your papers online in tribute to Aaron >>> Swartz, who committed suicide yesterday, after being hounded by >> prosecutors >>> in the US. >> > -- Denice Szafran, Ph.D. Visiting Lecturer and Coordinator of the Linguistics Minor Anthropology Department 13F Sturges, 1 College Circle, Geneseo, NY 14454 585-245-5174

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