User:EGraeff

Résumé

Erhardt Graeff is a research assistant within the Institutional Cooperation Research Group project and a recent MPhil graduate from the University of Cambridge, where he focused on sociological theory and qualitative examination of rural internet use and social capital. In various forms/fora, he has researched and written on digital divides, e-government, networked public spheres, new media literacy, and Wikipedia. Occasionally, he flexes his web programming skills gained while an IT student at Rochester Institute of Technology, but right now he would rather work on his Russian than his Ruby.

Contact Info

• email - egraeff [at] cyber [dot] law [dot] harvard [dot] edu
• phone - 717.919.3145
• gtalk - erhardt [at] gmail [dot] com

Role in the Team

Research Assistant, Educational Materials

Recent Activity on Wiki

Special:Contributions/EGraeff

Weekly Tasks and Results

week of 05/11/2009

• task: Compose Educational Materials section of Report May 2009.
  • deadline: 05/15/2009
  • status: created Report May 2009 page (05/11/2009)

• task: Write 3-4 page executive summary of EM Research to this point, giving brief summary of the EM industry, our findings, and the quadrant mappings.
  • deadline: 05/11/2009
  • status: not started (05/07/2009)

• task: Clean-up the wiki and start converting bulleted text to narrative.
  • deadline: ongoing
  • status: in progress, updated ICP wiki site map and created History of US Textbook Publishing (05/09/2009)

• task: Add Ahrash interview notes to wiki
  • deadline: ASAP
  • status: completed (05/12/2009), see Ahrash Bissell Interview Notes

• supplemental reading: Cohen, W.M., Nelson, R.R. & Walsh, J.P., 2000. 'Protecting Their Intellectual Assets: Appropriability Conditions and Why U.S. Manufacturing Firms Patent (or Not)'. National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series, Working Paper No. 7552. Available at: http://www.nber.org/papers/w7552 [Accessed May 12, 2009].
  • status: downloaded pdf (05/12/09)

week of 05/04/2009

• task: Add ORBIS report content to Pearson.
  • deadline: 05/09/2009
  • status: completed (05/07/2009), see Pearson Education

• task: Add key MITE Staff to Interview List.
  • deadline: ASAP
  • status: completed (05/07/2009), see Contacts for EM#Potential Contacts

• task: Add relevant, domestic OER projects from UNESCO's OER_Wiki to Commons-based Cases in EM / Commons-based Cases in EM-K12.
  • deadline: ASAP
  • status: not started (05/06/2009)

• task: Read (at least) pages 1-3, 40-43 of Simba Information's 2008 National Textbook Adoptions Scorecard and 2009 Outlook and summarize for the wiki.
  • deadline: 05/09/2009
  • status: incomplete (05/04/2009)

week of 04/27/2009

• task: Find MarketResearch.com reports: The Complete K-12 Report: 2009 and Simba Information's 2008 National Textbook Adoptions Scorecard and 2009 Outlook.
  • deadline: ASAP
  • status: completed (04/28/2009)

• task: Write one paragraph summaries of the Alternative Business Models in EM.
  • deadline: 05/01/2009
  • status: completed (05/01/2009)

• task: Read (at least) chapters 1, 5 & 6 of College Publishing Market Forecast 2008-2009 and summarize for the wiki.
  • deadline: 05/01/2009
  • status: in progress (05/07/2009)

• supplemental reading: Eilhard, J., 2009. 'Open Source Incorporated'. SSRN eLibrary. Available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1360604 [Accessed May 1, 2009].
  • status: downloaded pdf (04/30/09)

week of 04/20/2009

• task: Elaborate on the Educational Materials#Field Definition using the learning objects literature from David Wiley.
  • deadline: ASAP
  • status: not started (04/24/2009)

• task: Read The Digital Learning Challenge: Obstacles to Educational Uses of Copyrighted Material in the Digital Age and College Textbooks: Enhanced Offerings Appear to Drive Recent Price Increases and add relevant info to the wiki.
  • deadline: ASAP
  • status: deprioritized (05/06/2009)

• task: Read Staying the Course and K-12 Online Learning and add relevant info to Overall Picture of the EM field.
  • deadline: ASAP
  • status: deprioritized (05/06/2009)

• task: Add and organize list of contacts for possible interview (expand Educational_Materials#Interviews).
  • deadline: ASAP
  • status: completed (04/21/2009), see Contacts for EM

• task: Contact Anita Elberse (see Contacts for EM#Contacted).
  • deadline: ASAP
  • status: completed (04/21/2009), awaiting response to follow-up e-mail (04/29/2009)

• task: Look at The inefficiencies of freedom by James Boyle, the Section 108 Study Group Report, the MGM v Grokster amicus briefs, The Economic Case for Creative Commons Textbooks and Articles from Insider Higher Ed and add relevant content to the wiki.
  • deadline: ASAP
  • status: deprioritized (05/06/2009), Boyle 2007 referenced for CCC on IP Profile of non-profit companies in EM (05/07/2009)

• task: Upload feedback notes from Friday meeting with Prof. Benkler to Report_April_2009.
  • deadline: ASAP
  • status: completed (04/21/2009), see Report April 2009#Yochai Feedback 3

• task: Find copy of Wallis, J. C., Milojevic, S. Borgman, C. L. & Sandoval, W. A. (2006) The special case of scientific data sharing with education, American Society for Information Science & Technology, Austin, TX, Information Today.
  • deadline: ASAP
  • status: completed (04/20/2009)

week of 04/13/2009

• task: Write report on research activity up to this point for Friday Meeting (see Report_April_2009#Educational_Materials)
  • deadline: 04/17/09, 10am
  • status: completed (04/17/09)

• task: Draft Educational_Materials#Field_definition, using Telecommunications#Field_Definition as a model
  • deadline: 04/17/09, 10am
  • status: completed (04/17/09)

• task: Locate and examine four specific HBS Case Studies by Lee Fleming: "Textbooks Online (A)", "Textbooks Online (A), (B), (C), and (D) TN", "Textbooks Online (B): TBO-- First Day of Orders", and "Textbooks Online (C)."
  • deadline: 04/17/09
  • status: waiting to hear back from Prof. Fleming's assistant (04/16/09)

• task: Find, read, and summarize AJS article, http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/210361?journalCode=ajs
  • deadline: 04/15/09
  • status: completed (04/25/09), see Overall Picture of the EM field#From Editorial Logic to Market Logic

• task: See if anything interesting at http://www.academicleadership.org/
  • deadline: 04/15/09
  • status: completed (04/10/09), waiting for follow-up on selected relevant articles

• supplemental reading: Whyte, W.F. & Whyte, K.K., 1984. 'Interviewing Strategy and Tactics'. In Learning from the Field: A Guide from Experience. Beverly Hills, CA: SAGE Publications, pp. 97-112.
  • status: completed (04/25/09)

• supplemental reading: Carol's summary of first two chapters of Neil Fligstein's The Architecture of Markets.
  • status: completed (05/04/09)

week of 04/06/2009

• task: Find market information (money they make and lines of products they have related to educational materials) for the companies: Pearson, Thomson, McGraw Hill, Wiley, Houghton Mifflin, St. Martin's/Von Holtzbrinck.
  • deadline: 04/08/09
  • status: in progress (04/08); so far posted (04/09) basic information on all 6 companies from ORBIS to IP_Profile_of_Biggest_for-profit_companies_in_EM#Biggest_For-profit_Companies

• task: Summarize 3 of 5 articles suggested by Carol.
  • deadline: 04/10/09
  • status: completed (04/24); posted (04/04) Burrus 2007 to Overall Picture of the EM field#Inputs Innovations and Commons-based Cases in EM#Connexions, (04/14) Liebowitz 1985 to Overview of Economics of Intellectual Property in EM#Photocopying of Journals, and (04/24) Besen 1986 to Overview of Economics of Intellectual Property in EM#Cost/Benefit Analysis of Private Reproduction

week of 03/30/2009

• task: Answer questions outlined in Educational Materials#Study of the field by referring to initial sources bibliography--offer prose and bullet points relevant to each item, citing each source carefully
  • deadline: 04/05/2009 for Book Industry 2008 Trends data / this will be an ongoing task
  • status: in progress (04/08)

week of 03/23/2009

• task: Prepare for/participate in conference call/interview with Jonathan Emmonds of Connexions at 10am on Wednesday, 03/25/2009
  • deadline: Wednesday, 03/25/2009
  • status: completed (03/25); see Jonathan Emmons Interview Notes posted (03/29)

• task: Unify resources under the EM section in the wiki (including Links on EM)
  • deadline: Friday, 03/27/2009
  • status: in progress (03/29)

• task: Look for Book Industry Trends 2008 in Harvard Libraries
  • deadline: ASAP
  • status: completed (03/25)

• task: Answer questions outlined in Educational Materials#Study of the field by referring to initial sources bibliography--offer prose and bullet points relevant to each item, citing each source carefully
  • deadline: Tuesday, 03/31/2009 for State Legislation / this will be an ongoing task
  • status: completed (03/31); see new content on Overall Picture of the EM field#Common Policy Themes, Overall Picture of the EM field#Potentially Key Legislation, Legislation on Policy Theme 1 for EM, Legislation on Policy Theme 2 for EM, Legislation on Policy Theme 3 for EM, Legislation on Policy Theme 4 for EM, Legislation on Policy Theme 5 for EM, Legislation on Policy Theme 6 for EM, Legislation on Policy Theme 7 for EM, Legislation on Policy Theme 8 for EM, Legislation on Policy Theme 9 for EM, and updated content on Bibliography for Item 2 in EM, ICP wiki site map, IP Profile of Universities working in EM

• supplemental reading: Cowan, R. & Harison, E., 2001. Intellectual property rights in a knowledge-based economy, Maastricht: MERIT - Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology. Available at: http://ideas.repec.org/p/dgr/umamer/2001026.html [Accessed March 24, 2009].
  • status: completed (04/06)

week of 03/16/2009

• task: Attend Cooperation Research Group meeting on Monday, March 16 and report on status of other projects
  • deadline: Monday, 03/16/2009
  • status: completed (03/17)

• task: Define research schedule for the next couple weeks, with specific attention to commitments to work on-site at Berkman Squared
  • deadline: Wednesday, 03/18/2009 (or ASAP)
  • status: completed (03/17)

week of 03/09/2009

• task: Clean up Educational Materials pages on the Wiki
  • deadline: ASAP / this will be an ongoing task
  • status: completed (03/09)

• task: Maintain EM section of ICP wiki site map
  • deadline: ASAP / this will be an ongoing task
  • status: completed (03/16)

• task: Attend Cooperation Research Group meeting on Monday, March 9 and report on status of other projects
  • deadline: Monday, 03/09/2009
  • status: completed (03/09)

• task: Document and Expand on initial bibliography for EM field study on appropriate page (see Educational Materials#Bibliography addressing research outline)--submit them to Carol and decide with her which ones are relevant and need to be summarized in AcaWiki.org--this task should develop in tandem with task of answering questions in the Study of the field
  • deadline: Friday, 03/13/2009 (initial sources) / this will be an ongoing task
  • status: completed (03/19)

week of 03/02/2009

• task: Complete personal page on the wiki with contact information and this list of tasks
  • deadline: Monday, 03/02/2009 (Carol suggestion: check Brendan and Andrew personal page and follow same structure)
  • status: completed (03/02)

• task: Look at peer production website list and identify any as relevant Educational Materials Cases (Educational Materials#Cases of Study) to go deeper on--list cases, write link and a paragraph--submit them to Carol and decide with her which ones will be valuable as later Cases of Study
  • deadline: Friday, 03/06/2009 (share work with Adam)
  • status: in progress (03/16)

• task: Develop draft EM Industry Outputs Matrix similar to Genomics and Proteomics matrices in Carol's presentation from Cooperation Research Group
  • deadline: Sunday, 03/08/2009
  • status: decided on a different course of action (04/17)

• supplemental reading: David, Paul A., 1993, Intellectual property institutions and the panda's thumb: patents, copyrights, and trade secrets in economic theory and history, in: M. Wallerstein, M. Mogee and R. Schoen (eds.), Global Dimensions of Intellectual Property Protection in Science and Technology, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C
  • status: completed (04/21)

• supplemental reading: IPR course materials from Carolina
  • status: completed (03/16)

• supplemental reading: Holdren, John P. 2008. "Science and Technology for Sustainable Well-Being". Science, 319:424-434.
  • status: completed (03/19)

archived

• task: Attend The future is in the margins, take notes, and share with the group
  • deadline: After the event
  • status: event postponed

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