Designing Cyberinfrastructure for Knowledge Sharing

A Bioacoustics Case Study

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18357/otessac.2024.4.1.412

Keywords:

open scholarship, citizen science, platform development, reusability principle

Abstract

FishSounds (https://fishsounds.net) is an online portal that provides open and user-friendly access to academic scholarship regarding the sounds made by fish species. It is the result of an international collaboration between students, scientists, and information professionals, and has become a resource used around the globe for research, education, journalism, and general interest. This website is just the first instance of a new approach to sharing knowledge and an emerging cyberinfrastructure for open scholarship. The codebase behind FishSounds was designed to be reusable with other datasets, and in the coming years additional portals will connect users to knowledge from varied subject areas across academic disciplines. This discussion examines the development and reception of FishSounds as a case study for the creation of these websites, called Searchable Online Catalogues of Knowledge, or SOCKs. An examination of the lessons learned from different audiences accessing FishSounds will be used to guide the development of the SOCK platform as it is publicly released.

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Published

2024-12-18

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2024): OTESSA Conference Proceedings

Section

Practice

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Copyright (c) 2024 Sarah Vela, Audrey Looby, Brittnie Spriel , Hailey L. Davies, Kieran Cox

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