As an experiment, I've uploaded an #ePub of the journal volume "Current Practice in Linked Open Data for the Ancient World", ISAW Papers 7 (2014) to Academia_edu . See https://www.academia.edu/7598376/Current_Practice_in_Linked_Open_Data_for_the_Ancient_World . Co-edited w/@paregorios@social.coop and @jmucci@twitter.com .
When the experiment is further along, I'll probably upload to Zenodo.org as well.
@electricarchaeo @ekansa also an option. Semi-random testing on Academia for now. Casting about to see how ePubs are treated.
I gave up on Academia.edu. Will you try this on Zenodo?
@ekansa @electricarchaeo (+ merging in @paregorios) . From only practical perspective: Academia.edu makes it a bit easier to experiment on this front. As in... Current ePub is far from perfect. Maybe this is a dead end. So I hesitate to put something on Zenodo that I don't know should stay there. HCommons similar, if to lesser degree(?). It assigns DOIs. Calls itself a repository. Etc. Academia? I can just delete file and no harm. W/more info in future, I will make more purposeful decisions.
@sebhth @electricarchaeo @paregorios
Good points all. I will check it out!
@ekansa @electricarchaeo Following up on suggestion by @paregorios , I've gently/collegially engaged with @humcommons@twitter. See https://twitter.com/sebhth/status/999313384142143489
@sebhth what’s the hypothesis you’re hoping to prove?
@paregorios Maybe it's "Anything is better than PDF."
@sebhth I’m all for almost any format other than pdf. Was wondering about the academia.e d u part.
@paregorios No great stakes on that decision. Happy to have generated a bit of conversation. And a bit of looking around... In the #hcommons faq, ePub not listed among supported formats for text: https://hcommons.org/core/faq/ . PDF "preferred", though with warning. But... I only saw this now. Again, happy for the prompt.
On the bigger Academia_edu question: I'm a little agnostic when it comes to repositories that enable access to work originally published elsewhere. Use them in parallel?
@sebhth We should push on hcommons about that.
p.s. @ekansa has a paper in this. And probably others on Mastodon?