2021 05 01 tweets
Over the course of the last **ahem** years, I’ve accumulated a metric crap-ton of notes — notes on reading, notes toward writing, notes from meetings, notes that are something like journal entries. +
Replying to @kfitz
The good news is that all of these notes are in Markdown files, and are all in my current note-taking application of choice, http://Obsidian.md. +
Replying to @kfitz
The bad news is that these notes are in hierarchically organized folders, unlinked, and far from atomic. I have, for instance, one .md file for each text I’ve read over those years, mostly containing a lot of key excerpts but also sometimes my thoughts on them. +
Replying to @kfitz
So the notes are organized by source rather than by my purpose in taking them, making it hard for me to use them as I build a new project, and making it even harder to go explore them later. +
Replying to @kfitz
I’ve been trying to read up on notetaking strategies and personal knowledge management and whatnot, in order to think about how to convert this mess to something less tree-like and into somethign more network-like. +
Replying to @kfitz
But I’m finding all of those descriptions either too vague or too advanced — for the most part they assume that you know what you’re doing. Or, rather, that you understand what they’re doing. +
Replying to @kfitz
What I need is personal knowledge management for beginners. Or, rather, a guide to setting up PKM aimed at folks who’ve been taking gargantuan unlinked notes for decades. +
Replying to @kfitz
I am open to suggestions and pointers. And am paging @electricarchaeo in particular.
Replying to @billhd and @electricarchaeo
:nods in sad recognition:
Replying to @RSilbergleid
Will do!
Replying to @electricarchaeo
This is all super useful to think through — thanks!
Replying to @electricarchaeo and @DaveMazella
Mmmm this is good to know. I need to finish reading the book I’m in right now \(and wrap up the notetaking in the mode I’ve been using\) and then dive into this to see how it might help.
Replying to @scott_bot
Oh, man. 12 hurts.
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Replying to @s2ceball
Miro?
Replying to @electricarchaeo
Oooh interesting! Thanks!
Replying to @electricarchaeo
That’s super cool.
Replying to @electricarchaeo
I’ve had zero real linking practices up to now, so am trying to build a structure from something like scratch. It’ll be interesting to watch this develop.
So happy and grateful to have gotten to be part of this amazing project! https://twitter.com/vkuhn/status/1390722371661615106
Replying to @electricarchaeo
Oh wow. This demands a blog post — I want to see how it works!
Replying to @electricarchaeo
I’ve been flattening out my folder structure and creating some index pages as a start. And am trying to be very conscious of linking as I take new notes. But it would be great to have a way other than straight search to mine my 300+ enormo reading notes.
Replying to @scott_bot and @electricarchaeo
I have definitely written the same blog post, which I think counts.
Replying to @electricarchaeo
Excellent! I’ve been enjoying the Zotero for iPad to Obsidian via Zotfile flow.
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I really, really need to stop checking email after 5pm. There’s nothing quite like the 6pm jolt to the old blood pressure to really enliven an evening.
Replying to @BatsInLavender
Just don’t is SUPER hard to get through my skull. I’ve got 25 years of checking on autopilot to overcome.
This is AMAZING. Signing up NOW. https://twitter.com/nancybaym/status/1392797346556174337
There’s a great distance — but at times an unfortunately deep connection — between the merely wackadoodle and the outright dangerous. Here’s where we are today: https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-professor-of-paranoia +
Replying to @kfitz
And here’s where we were 17 years ago. https://kfitz.info/the-scariest-plenary-ever/
Replying to @kfitz
I find the whole thing painfully sad, not least that there’s enough to be skeptical about in actual documented contemporary life that it’s possible to slide right off into this highly damaging mode of paranoid disbelief.
Replying to @robinsloan and @alexismadrigal
I’ve always thought of it as a “nope.”
Replying to @CJ_Daugherty
Not a documentary, but have you seen Good Night and Good Luck? The fascinating Murrow plus the amazing David Strathairn…
For those of you watching the Clarivate/ProQuest news with horror \(as am I\), a few questions: Say you had an open access scholarly network and repository system.
cc @humcommons
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Replying to @humcommons
And say while that network has a particular disciplinary focus, you’re on the cusp of adding new disciplinary hubs, and of partnering with higher ed institutions to create campus-based nodes.
https://commons.msu.edu
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Replying to @humcommons
And say that you have a good example of an institution that has already used your repository as a point of deposit for theses and dissertations.
https://hcommons.org/deposits/?facets[group_facet][]=CityLIS
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Replying to @humcommons
How would you go about expanding your functionality and your visibility in order to to make the case to institutions that an investment in your network could provide an academy-owned alternative to the corporate capture of campus resources?
All ideas MOST happily received.
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Replying to @DaveMazella
💯 Zotero’s model is brilliant: the service is free, and they charge users for extra storage. We’re working very hard on not charging individual users at all, but instead taking on institutional and organizational partners — and their data will always belong to them.
Replying to @DaveMazella and @paging_Athena
Thank you for the connection!
Replying to @jean_bauer, @humcommons and @SPARC_NA
Ooh, excellent. Do DM!
Replying to @jean_bauer, @humcommons and @SPARC_NA
Sorry about that — I didn’t know I wasn’t following you! Have rectified. :)
Replying to @RoxanneShirazi and @humcommons
Thanks for this pointer! It’s super helpful.
THIS. This this this. https://twitter.com/JMarkOckerbloom/status/1394399633510699014
Replying to @cohenss
Here I was about to give you an “eww,” only to find out that mine is the utterly irredeemable “\(You’re\) Having My Baby.” 😳
Replying to @james3neal and @susanmpls
Exactly. Institutions are far more prone to sustain platforms brought to them by vendors than platforms in which they are partners, whether they’re fully aware of it or not.
Replying to @KDNyhan and @humcommons
Say more about transparency re search histories? The first two points seem unproblematic, but that one raises privacy concerns for me.
Replying to @DLaurence401 and @cohenss
I dunno, David, Paul Anka might out-do Perry Como on the pure cringe factor.
Replying to @KDNyhan and @humcommons
Got it. That’s helpful — thank you!
Replying to @DLaurence401 and @cohenss
No — but I do think there’s something to be said about the horror of pop music in the 1970s.
RT @CALMSU: #MSUCAL Director of Digital Humanities @kfitz and Assistant Dean for Academic and Research Technology @schopie1 talk with #Doma…
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RT @BigTenAcademic: BTAA has entered into a three-year collective action agreement with the Directory of Open Access Books and OAPEN Librar…
RT @jeroenson: Programme @NECS_Network 2021 conference is available!
On Thursday we \(the pubcom\) will organize a workshop. Excited, since…
Replying to @nancybaym
Not literally, but Richard Powers’s Gain is a brilliant fictional history of the two hundred plus year history of an American multinational.
Replying to @jsalem75, @msupress and @msulibraries
Excellent news!
Replying to @mkirschenbaum and @electricarchaeo
It’s apparently time to resurface my old music theatre ambitions…
RT @MikkiBrock: I should also add that kindness isn't just about individual generosity; it also entails a push to improve the system for ot…
Boards keep complaining about activist faculty. We need to stand up against activist boards. https://twitter.com/shannimcg/status/1395075715251507204
RT @hjoseph: The incentive structure in the US higher ed system desperately needs reform...
Replying to @wynkenhimself and @ZacharyLesser
This is an interesting set of questions. This is speculation rather than historical knowledge, but I could imagine that \(as for most nonprofit orgs\) the boards of private institutions have deep fundraising roots, and the boards of public ones have deep accountability roots. +
Replying to @wynkenhimself and @ZacharyLesser
The problem for the publics in particular that what “accountability” meant in the Progressive Era, as many of the institutions were being established, is SUPER not what it have been manipulated into meaning today.
Replying to @wynkenhimself and @ZacharyLesser
Sigh. *has
Replying to @wynkenhimself and @ZacharyLesser
And as the publics have gotten increasingly privatized, their boards have come to function more like the boards of cultural institutions — except with a few areas in which they have WAY more power than any nonprofit board.
Replying to @wynkenhimself and @ZacharyLesser
All of which is to say that I realllly want to dig back into higher Ed history now.
Replying to @wynkenhimself and @ZacharyLesser
Always happy to think out loud!
I’ve had my work described as “seminal” and it totally skeeved me. \(Also, no\.\) I’ve also had it described as “sui generis” and if you’ve got to go with Latin metaphors of propagation, it’s far, far better. https://twitter.com/gmbritton/status/1395452673151799296
Goofy maple tree helicopter seed season has begun. Which means we’ve got equally bonkers chipmunk hijinx on the back patio outside the window where my desk sits. Which means I am set for entertainment. Early summer is the best.
Replying to @sharonmleon
I suspect the same phenomenon that will make a cat sit on the single piece of paper on your floor, or the single space on the floor not covered by paper.
No. https://twitter.com/samoore_/status/1395732979956264969
Replying to @kwazana
I am very sorry that I am not there to call bullshit on this “requirement.” I tried very hard to carve out a different path in the hopes that others could do the same, but… leaving no doubt didn’t help. :(
I cannot tell you how much it has meant to me this spring to have gotten to follow this project at @kulibraries and @IDRH_KU. <3 https://twitter.com/sferna109/status/1395822105556574216
Seriously. It is sad that we‘ve let this come to this pass. As I said yesterday, we have to stand up against activist boards and define the lane they need to stay in. https://twitter.com/MHarrisPerry/status/1395851191133814785
Here’s the most important thing I learned about nonprofit governance during my last gig: the board has ONE employee over whom they have authority: the CEO or ED. If they disapprove of how the org’s personnel is being managed, they can fire their employee. That’s it.
Replying to @kfitz
Or it should be it. But higher ed has gradually given its boards way more intrusive oversight — often in the name of public accountability — than those boards should have. It’s time to take it back.
Replying to @kfitz
Which means organizing. And solidarity. Neither of which comes naturally to the ostensible meritocracies that are our institutions. But it’s time. Boards should have the responsibility of ensuring that our institutions fulfill their public mission.
Replying to @kfitz
Beyond that, they need to stay in their lane.
Replying to @kawulf and @JHUPress
I am enormously honored that you’d take my draft on your Actual Vacation!!!
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If we are in conversation in the days ahead and it seems like I’m elsewhere, please know that it’s because this video is on repeat in my head. https://twitter.com/manjusrii/status/1396253211334365184
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A question for folks out there who manage repositories: Say a user deposits a dissertation, and then a couple of years later comes back and tell you that a publisher they’re working with on a book proposal has asked that the deposit be removed. How would you respond?
Replying to @kfitz
And would it be out of bounds to take down the deposit but leave a tombstone saying “This deposit has been removed at the request of PUBLISHER, who has seriously backward policies regarding open access”?
Replying to @jambina
I’m 100% with you on all of this. I really really do NOT like the idea of removals. Especially not for bad reasons.
Replying to @familyunequal
Thank you!
Replying to @electricarchaeo
You’re completely right: deposit includes agreeing to our terms, which includes a grant of license, which pre-exists any publisher interest. I want to be as supportive as I can of any scholar caught in a position like this, but there are limits.
Replying to @FrueheNeuzeit
Yep.
Replying to @sshreeves
Interesting — thanks!
Replying to @sshreeves
Exactly.
Replying to @cgbrooke
Collin! This is all a lot. Sending you all my best thoughts for the path ahead of you.
Replying to @cgbrooke
Indeed! 🤞🏻
RT @gmbritton: @kfitz Dissertations are not books. Publishers really know that and everyone else should too. Having the diss available does…
RT @cplong: Nice shout out to @kfitz and practices of open peer review: “Joining the 'great conversation' – The fundamental role of annot…
RT @CCooijmans: For anyone seeking to shift away from these types of shenanigans, I can highly recommend @humcommons, which is non-profit,…
Today is this, but with Italian sausage instead of chicken, and spinach in addition to mushrooms.
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1012898-creamy-one-pot-pasta-with-chicken-and-mushrooms?smid=ck-recipe-iOS-share
Replying to @kfitz
Also a pound of pasta, not a half a pound, because what are you kidding me.
Such a great — if sad — story, which says so much about what we run the risk of losing as we professionalize. <3 https://twitter.com/jvinopal/status/1399461572787965959
RT @jvinopal: This is not meant to mock scholarly reading or interpretation. For the most part I loved my years in that program and engaged…