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Jeff, List, I'm afraid I have so many irons in the fire right now that the fire is constantly in danger of flaming out, but I will save this copy against the day when I can respond to your questions, perhaps a bit at a time. Just by way of an off-the-cuff observation, I don't think any project of, by, for serious scholars could learn very much of a positive sort from “The Wikipedia Experience” since that is, “whether by the sword or the slow decay of time”, dead set on maintaining a brand of anti-scholarship. Working on what is worth saving in various old Wikipedia articles requires me to rummage through their edit histories, which raises a host of annoying ghosts from bygone days. But I'll do my level best to avoid refighting old skirmishes and use what I've learned in the mean time to give a better account the Truth in Pragmatism. Regards, Jon On 3/13/2017 6:58 PM, Jeffrey Brian Downard wrote: > Hi Jon A, Val Daniel, Jon S, John S, List, > > Let me ask a couple of questions about your experiences engaging > with others in collaborative inquiry using online tools including > Wikipedia, blogs and the Peirce-List. If others have suggestions > based on their own experiences, please feel free to chime in. > > As you know, I'm working with a group that has been developing > a pair of related collaborative research projects. Our aims > are twofold: first, we are trying to bring a network of Peirce > scholars and interested laypeople together for the purpose of > transcribing and interpreting Peirce's unpublished manuscripts > in the SPIN project; second, we are trying to bring the network > of Peirce scholars together with scientists who draw on the > philosophical and logical ideas Peirce was developing in order > to promote and support cutting edge collaborative research in > a broad range of areas including biosemiotics, cognitive science, > and computer science in the APERI project. Both projects are > meant to be open to all and democratic in spirit. We've created > draft versions of two web pages to help publicize these efforts: > > 1. SPIN project: https://sites.google.com/site/spinpeirce/ > 2. APERI project: https://sites.google.com/site/abductivepathways/ > > For the last year and a half, we have been selecting a suite of > existing online tools, and then we've been additional functionality > when needed (e.g., by adding LaTeX capabilities to the FromThePage > transcription platform for the sake of encoding mathematical and > logical formulas and diagrams). See: > http://fromthepage.com/collection/show?collection_id=16 > > Considerable time has been spent developing a framework for the > project, we have been active in asking for letters of commitment > from Peirce scholars and scientists to show funding agencies that > we have buy-in from a number of people willing to engage, and we've > spent more hours than I would care to admit applying to public and > private grant agencies for the sake of securing the funding that > is needed to support the project for the next several years. > > Given the dreams Jon A has dreamed about building a true community > of learning and inquiry using online resource, and given what you > and others have learned -- both good and bad -- by engaging with > Wikipedia, online blogs and the like, do you have suggestions to > offer about the following questions: > > a. What does and doesn't work in the context of Wikipedia for the > sake of building what you consider to be a true community of > learning and inquiry? > > b. What suite of resources would you recommend that are currently > available to foster the growth of such a community? > > c. We believe that some kind of social publishing/forum discussion > tool would be helpful to support collaborative research between > people who are physically in different parts of the world, but > we haven't found a platform that really suites the needs of the > community. Can you suggest one -- or suggest features that such > a tool should have to promote a true community of learning and > inquiry? > > We intend to use a range of online resources that, taken together, > will function something like a "research ecosystem" including: > > 1. regular discussions between small research teams > utilizing video-conferencing with screen sharing; > 2. dialogue mapping of the conversations taking place > in video-conferences, by email, text or what you, > as a kind of shared community research notebook; > 3. a network blog to keep the SPIN and APERI communities > informed about what the different research teams are > doing and learning; > 4. a relatively informal online e-journal to publish work > in progress (e.g., including such things as an outline > or prospectus of a research project that is just getting > underway, diagrams that are being used to see questions > and frame hypotheses, and pre-prints of drafts of articles > that are in the works). What online tools or approaches > would you recommend that we use or avoid given the aims of > the SPIN and APERI projects? > > I appreciate any suggestions you have to offer. > > Yours, > > Jeff > > Jeffrey Downard > Associate Professor > Department of Philosophy > Northern Arizona University > (o) 928 523-8354 -- inquiry into inquiry: https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/ academia: https://independent.academia.edu/JonAwbrey oeiswiki: https://www.oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey isw: http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/index.php/JLA facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/JonnyCache
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