Stuart Noble

folksonomies in academia

Read “The Age of Digital Citation,” no doubt already part of the growing para-academic folksonomic canon. Via academicdave’s tweet.

It is an age for the flourishing of scholars who have the time to read deeply and the energy to think outside of the canon. This is what’s scary about it: to keep up in the age of digital citation, scholars will have to master a series of intellectual prostheses – tagging circles, artificial reading bots, quick skimming – that will help them navigate through the masses of texts. The age of digital citation will punish scholars who merely reduplicate the canons of their mentors. This is what’s exciting about it: you no longer have to go to a university to find out what books are on the canon.

Social Scholarship on the Rise

I came across this wonderful blog, Library 2.0: An Academic’s Perspective, while surfing for information about “academic social networking.”

About This Blog

Library 2.0: An Academic’s Perspective is maintained by Laura B. Cohen, Web Support Librarian, University at Albany, SUNY.

This blog is an exploration of Library 2.0 from the perspective of academic librarianship. L2 presents academic librarians with – you guessed it – challenges and opportunities, and this blog shares ruminations, speculations, news, proposals, and anything else that’s relevant to blogging about this topic.

These are two fantastic articles which help explain the vision I have for the AS community here in Denmark and Scandinavia.

Social Scholarship on the Rise

Social Software and New Opportunities for Peer Review

Academic Blogging

I wanted to point you to two interesting essays about the pros and cons of academic blogging;An Enthusiast’s View of Academic Blogs and, A Skeptic’s Take on Academic Blogs.

Finally, if you take a look on the right column of this blog you’ll find a category; “blogs of note.” Have a look around and tell me what you think. In particular, have a look at, Public Reason. This is a blog for political theorist which is limited to Ph.d’s working in the field. As a new blog they are dealing with some interesting organizational and operational issues which are important for those of us looking to build our own community.