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* In the summer of 2018, the Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) will enter a new phase. | * In the summer of 2018, the Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) will enter a new phase. | ||
** When I launched OATP in 2009, it had funding from the Wellcome Trust (2007-2009)<!--and the Open Society Institute (2003-2009)-->. | ** When I launched OATP in 2009, it had grant funding from the Wellcome Trust (2007-2009)<!--and the Open Society Institute (2003-2009)-->. | ||
** In 2011, OATP became part of the Harvard Open Access Project, which had grant funding from Arcadia (2011-2016) and the Laura and John Arnold Foundation (2016-2018). | ** In 2011, OATP became part of the Harvard Open Access Project, which had grant funding from Arcadia (2011-2016) and the Laura and John Arnold Foundation (2016-2018). | ||
** The new phase is the post-grant phase. | ** The new phase is the post-grant phase. | ||
* OATP was always crowd-sourced. But until the summer of 2018, we had a mix of grant-funded and volunteer taggers. So the change isn't precisely that OATP is becoming crowd-sourced. It's becoming all-volunteer. I myself will continue to participate as a volunteer. | |||
* The shift may mean that OATP will decline in quantity and quality. | |||
** But this need not happen. It depends on how many good volunteers we can recruit to tag. | |||
= Please join us and help recruit others to join us = | |||
* | |||
= Why not continue grant funding? = | |||
* For about a decade, I had two part-time jobs, and running the Harvard Open Access Project (HOAP), which included OATP, was one of them. But in practice, that meant I had two full-time jobs. I needed to retreat to one full-time job. | |||
* Moreover, OATP was always intended to be an all-volunteer, crowd-sourced project. The early grant-funded years were an incubation period in which we could refine the project and the develop the underlying software, [[TagTeam]]. | |||
= Why not make the transition earlier? = | |||
* When I launched OATP, it initially ran on Connotea, an open-source tagging platform. But as Connotea lost support, and we realized that OATP needed features not offered by any existing tagging platform, we decided to launch our own. OATP started running in TagTeam as early as 2012. But TagTeam needed more time before it was ready for recruiting a large number of new users — recruiting the crowd. But it became ready in the spring of 2018. | |||
= The future of OATP = | = The future of OATP = | ||
* We're not laying OATP down. It will continue as an all-volunteer project. I will continue to work on it as well, without funding. | * We're not laying OATP down. It will continue as an all-volunteer project. I will continue to work on it as well, without funding. | ||
Revision as of 14:55, 21 June 2018
Harvard Open Access Project (HOAP) » Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » OATP Phase 2
Since the transition to the new phase of the Open Access Tracking Project is the result of my circumstances and decisions, I feel that I must use the first-person pronoun on occasion. — Peter Suber.
The new phase
- In the summer of 2018, the Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) will enter a new phase.
- When I launched OATP in 2009, it had grant funding from the Wellcome Trust (2007-2009).
- In 2011, OATP became part of the Harvard Open Access Project, which had grant funding from Arcadia (2011-2016) and the Laura and John Arnold Foundation (2016-2018).
- The new phase is the post-grant phase.
- OATP was always crowd-sourced. But until the summer of 2018, we had a mix of grant-funded and volunteer taggers. So the change isn't precisely that OATP is becoming crowd-sourced. It's becoming all-volunteer. I myself will continue to participate as a volunteer.
- The shift may mean that OATP will decline in quantity and quality.
- But this need not happen. It depends on how many good volunteers we can recruit to tag.
Please join us and help recruit others to join us
Why not continue grant funding?
- For about a decade, I had two part-time jobs, and running the Harvard Open Access Project (HOAP), which included OATP, was one of them. But in practice, that meant I had two full-time jobs. I needed to retreat to one full-time job.
- Moreover, OATP was always intended to be an all-volunteer, crowd-sourced project. The early grant-funded years were an incubation period in which we could refine the project and the develop the underlying software, TagTeam.
Why not make the transition earlier?
- When I launched OATP, it initially ran on Connotea, an open-source tagging platform. But as Connotea lost support, and we realized that OATP needed features not offered by any existing tagging platform, we decided to launch our own. OATP started running in TagTeam as early as 2012. But TagTeam needed more time before it was ready for recruiting a large number of new users — recruiting the crowd. But it became ready in the spring of 2018.
The future of OATP
- We're not laying OATP down. It will continue as an all-volunteer project. I will continue to work on it as well, without funding.