Who: Ray Siemens (University of Victoria, Canada)
Short Description: This session explores the underpinnings of online, social knowledge formation and engagement from perspectives that include intellectual history, knowledge domain area expertise and academic authority, facilitation of qualitative assurance process, and beyond. Examples will be drawn from scholarly editing and areas identified by participants, largely with focus on Wikimedia’s Wikipedia and Wikibooks.
Resources, Tools, Projects:
Wikibooks: Open Books for an Open World. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
“Annotated Bibliography of Social Knowledge Creation” [Alyssa Arbuckle, Nina Belojevic, Tracey El Hajj, Randa El Khatib, Lindsey Seatter, and Ray Siemens, with Alex Christie, Matthew Hiebert, Jon Saklofske, Jentery Sayers, Derek Siemens, Shaun Wong, and the INKE and ETCL Research Groups. 29-264 in Alyssa Arbuckle, Aaron Mauro, and Daniel Powell, eds. Social Knowledge Creation in the Humanities: Volume 1 NMRTS 7. Toronto / Tempe: ITER and the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2017.]
British Library Additional Manuscript 17,492 (The Devonshire MS)
A Social Edition of the Devonshire MS (BL Add 17,492). Eds. Ray Siemens, Karin Armstrong, Barbara Bond, Constance Crompton, Terra Dickson, Johanne Paquette, Jonathan Podracky, Ingrid Weber, Cara Leitch, Melanie Chernyk, Bret D. Hirtsch, Daniel Powell, Alyssa Arbuckle, Chris Gaudet, Eric Haswell, Arianna Ciula, Daniel Starza-Smith, James Cummings, with Martin Holmes, Greg Newton, Jonathan Gibson, Paul Remley, Erik Kwakkel, and Aimie Shirkie. Wikibooks and the Devonshire MS Advisory Group, 2012. 1394 pp. <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Devonshire_Manuscript>.
The Devonshire MS (BL Add 17,492) of Early Tudor Poetry. Eds. Ray Siemens, Karin Armstrong, Barbara Bond, Constance Crompton, Alyssa Arbuckle, Terra Dickson, Johanne Paquette, Jonathan Podracky, Ingrid Weber, Cara Leitch, Melanie Chernyk, Bret D. Hirtsch, Daniel Powell, Chris Gaudet, Eric Haswell, Arianna Ciula, Daniel Starza-Smith, James Cummings, with Martin Holmes, Greg Newton, Jonathan Gibson, Paul Remley, Erik Kwakkel, and Aimie Shirkie. Toronto / Tempe: Iter and Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 2015. xiv+519 pp.
The Devonshire Manuscript: A Women’s Book of Courtly Poetry. Ed. Elizabeth Heale. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series 19. Toronto: Iter Inc. and Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2012. xiii + 278 pp.