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When Authorship Isn't Enough: Lessons from CERN on the Implications of Formal and Informal Credit Attribution Mechanisms in Collaborative Research
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Title:When Authorship Isn't Enough: Lessons from CERN on the Implications of Formal and Informal Credit Attribution Mechanisms in Collaborative Research (ID: CSD5401)
Author(s):Jeremy Birnholtz (Cornell University)
Source:Journal of Electronic Publishing
Origin:Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (02/15/2008)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:

As research collaborations grow in size, scope, and time horizon, they increasingly resemble organizations in and of themselves. The traditional institutional structure of science, however, is fundamentally focused on individual scientists. Reconciling these novel research organizations with traditional structures has proven a difficult challenge for the high energy physics community, which has a longstanding tradition of large collaborations. In this paper I draw on interview data gathered in this community to explore the issues of authorship and credit attribution, with an eye toward extrapolating lessons for those in other disciplines. Results suggest that authorship practices in physics are fundamentally problematic in several respects, and that this stems in part from a need to recognize multiple types of contributions.

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New eXe release
Created by Stuart Yeates (University of Oxford) on November 10, 2005

eXe release a new version of their elearning content authoring tool, including builds for windows, Ubuntu and RedHat. I saw a demo of this a while ago, and it seemed like a very useful tool to authoring elearning content, but not trying to be everything for everyone, but sticking to doing a single things as well as possible they appear to be doing that thing pretty well.

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Debian ponders licences for Wikis
Created by Stuart Yeates (University of Oxford) on September 07, 2005

The Debian project is once again pondering what licences should be used for the content in wikis.

As I see it, wikis present additional problems from a licensing point of view because they systematically undermine the notion of authorship on which so much of western copyright law is based. Content placed in the wiki is _meant_ to be updated, improved, honed, repurposed and even retired by a huge range of participants, without so much as a "by your leave" to the original author of the content.

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