Concurring Opinions has drawn my attention to Michael Jensen’s incisive essay The New Metrics of Scholarly Authority, which offers the following "preconditions for scholarly success in Authority 3.0":
They include the digital availability of a text for indexing . . . the digital availability of the full text for referencing, quoting, linking, tagging; and the existence of metadata of some kind that identifies the document, categorizes it, contextualizes it, summarizes it, and perhaps provides key phrases from it, while also allowing others to enrich it with their own comments, tags, and contextualizing elements.
Read Jensen's essay here.
Interestingly, Concurring Opinions then suggests that the academic "push to publicize" mirrors the accelerating trend in social networking toward making the details of one's life accessible. Read about that here.
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