Cooperative Information Infrastructure for Scholarly Blogs (Infra Wiss Blogs)

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Heinz Pampel
• Term: since 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 528958385

Blogs have become an indispensable component of digital science communication, serving as a platform for scholarly communication, a diary for documenting research findings in the context of open science, or a showcase for communicating scientific findings to the general public. However, challenges for science blogs arise from unresolved issues pertaining to the permanent preservation of blog posts and the frequent lack of evidence in library records, hindering the sustainability of this publication type. The VIGO project Infra Wiss Blogs aims to support blogging researchers and information infrastructure institutions in identifying potential solutions for ensuring the long-term accessibility of scientific blogs in Germany. To this end, the project facilitates and moderates a discussion process to develop a distributed system to permanently store and make scientific blogs accessible. Given the complexity and scope of the addressed desideratum, de.hypotheses alone host more than 400 science blogs from Germany, the development of such an information system for research requires collaborative efforts. To foster collaboration and promote stakeholder networking, the project will organize communication forums on this topic, bringing together science and infrastructure. This approach will facilitate coordination among actors, processes, and standards, ultimately leading to the development of a distributed, organizational, technological, and cooperatively supported infrastructure that ensures the permanent accessibility of scientific blogs. Furthermore, the project will be accompanied by a socio-technical perspective of information science.

• DFG Programme: Cooperation and Networking (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)