(Scholarly and Research Communication, 2015-10-14) Powell, Daniel; Siemens, Raymond G.; Bowen, William R.; Hiebert, Matthew; Seatter, Lindsey
This article reflects on the first six months of funded research by the Renaissance
Knowledge Network (ReKN), focusing especially on the possibilities for
interoperability and metadata aggregation of diverse digital projects, including but not
limited to Early English Books Online—Text Creation Partnership; the Iter
Bibliography; the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory; the Advanced Research
Consortium network; Editing Modernism in Canada; the INKE working groups; and
several other, smaller projects. This article also considers how internetworked resources and a holistic scholarly environment should incorporate and build on existing
publication and markup tools. Key to this process of facilitating new forms of scholarly
production are including possibilities for middle-state publication; exporting both
primary and critical content; and forming new types of technologically facilitated
scholarly communities.