Promoting Scholarship through Design
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How can new media positively transform scholarly practices? One possible way is for scholarly archives such as e-journals and digital libraries to better support the needs and practices of their users, instead of the publishing process. This paper examines what it might mean to promote cognitive and social aspects of ‘scholarship’ through innovative archive design. Design requirements for supporting both scholarly tasks and scholarly communities are derived by analyzing existing cognitive and social theories. A promising theoretical framework guiding archive design is introduced: the contextually-enriched document framework. This framework suggests that: (1) document interfaces should enable practitioners to progressively enrich documents with important contextual information arising from social processes and (2) archive managers should engage in proactive practices to facilitate use and assist practitioners in realizing the benefits of the new technology. Both the design requirements and the framework are illustrated with examples from an existing electronic journal – The Journal of Interactive Media in Education.
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