Implementing a Social Knowledge Creation Environment

By Matthew Hiebert1, William Bowen2, Ray Siemens1, ETCL Research Group1, Iter Research Group1, INKE Research Group1

1. University of Victoria 2. University of Toronto

“Social knowledge creation,” an emergent area of research interest for digital humanists, promotes experimental critical interventions into more traditional knowledge production processes. The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the…

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“Social knowledge creation,” an emergent area of research interest for digital humanists, promotes experimental critical interventions into more traditional knowledge production processes. The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria with Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (University of Toronto Scarborough) have iteratively prototyped a Web-based platform for social knowledge creation called Iter Community. This article discusses the platform’s implementation as a critical intervention in scholarly production and publication, specifically how it provides new opportunities for research and serves as a model to allow for greater involvement of scholars and the public in knowledge creation.

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Original publication: Originally published in Scholarly Research Communication Vol. 6 No. 3, 2015 DOI: https://doi.org/10.22230/src.2015v6n3a223

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