Beyond the Flow. Scholarly Publications During and After the Digital

The PhD analyses the history of scholarly digital publication formats from 1995 to present day. Such a history is perceived of as an entanglement between epistemological traditions of disciplines that are involved, technological innovation and an ongoing debate about the 'true nature' of digital technologies. The wealth and heterogeneity of such formats is outstanding. In contrast, their impact and sustainability is limited even after 22 years. Consequently, many contributors to the field complain that the PDF is still the most successful digital publication format which exist. The goal of writing a history of digital scholarly publication formats in the way that has been mentioned is the attempt to find insights in this history which may help to develop more successful solutions in the future. One major claim is that too much attention in this research field is given to a comparison of digital technologies with the advent of the printing press. Instead, digital scholarly publishing should be conceived of as something completely unique. A history of digital scholarly publication formats will help to take a fresh look at this development.Introduction v 1 Cyberpublishing 1 1.1 The ACM Publishing Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.2 The Roaring 90s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.3 The Modular Article . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 1.4 Publication Formats Along the Path of Modular Articles. . . . . . . . 17 2 World Wide Publishing 2.1 Position of Points in Infrastructure and Virtual Publishing Environments 20 2.2 Programmatic Framing and Organisational Self-Awareness . . . . . . . 22 2.3 Early Theoretical Evaluations of Digital Publications . . . . . . . . . . .24 3 Publishing 3.0 27 3.1 The Open Laboratory Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 3.2 Aggregations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 3.3 Workflow Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 3.4 Semantic Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 3.5 Liquid Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 3.6 Enhanced Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 3.7 Nano-Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 3.8 Automated Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 3.9 Unbound Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 3.10 Single-Resource Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 3.11 Transmedia Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 4 Publishing-Com Bubble 145 4.1 Hybrid Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 4.2 Scaling Digital Publication Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 4.3 Data Papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 4.4 Self-Contained Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 4.5 Putting Digital Publications Into Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 5 Post-Digital ... 200 5.1 A Less Random Definition of the Digital. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 5.2 Topological, Typological and Mathematical Knowledge . . . . . . . . . 209 5.3 Representation Strategies, Intermediality and Their Relationships . . . 218 5.4 Representing in Times of Calculated Calculation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224 5.5 The Three Epistemological Effects of Calculated Calculation . . . . . . 233 5.6 Publications Beyond Cold Technology and Pure Theory . . . . . . . . . 241 6 ... Publishing 247 6.1 Concepts of Social Aspects in Digital Publications and What They Miss 247 6.2 The Ambiguous Issue of Heterogeneity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266 6.3 Publication Formats as Domain Driven Discourse Objects . . . . . . . . 273 6.4 Fundamental Tensions between Publication and Communication. . . 292 6.5 Publications in Terms of Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310 Conclusion 338 A Appendix 351 A.1 Acronyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351 References 355nrpages: 432status: publishe