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=== Generalists and specialists === | === Generalists and specialists === | ||
* Some taggers are wide ranging and tag anything about OA, or anything they encounter. | * Some taggers are wide ranging and don't limit themselves to certain niches or subtopics. They tag anything about OA, or anything they encounter. | ||
* Some focus on a given niche, even if they also tag outside that niche. For example, they may focus on OA in a given academic field, country, region, language, or subtopic. | * Some focus on a given niche, even if they also tag outside that niche. For example, they may focus on OA in a given academic field, country, region, language, or subtopic. | ||
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=== News reporters and historians === | === News reporters and historians === | ||
* Some | * Some focus on new developments, because they're trying to keep up. They use OATP to share what they discover. | ||
* | * Some focus on older developments, because they are researching past work on some aspect of OA. | ||
* We want to tag older developments in order to make our tags [[OATP_conventions#Retroactive_tagging | retroactively comprehensive]]. | * We want to cover new developments in order to keep our feed subscribers up to date on new developments. Ideally we like to tag new developments within 12 or 24 developments of their appearance online. | ||
* We want to cover older developments in order to make our tags [[OATP_conventions#Retroactive_tagging | retroactively comprehensive]]. | |||
=== Regulars and irregulars === | === Regulars and irregulars === | ||
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* You help the cause more if you tag regularly. But you still help if you tag sporadically — when you notice something, when you have time. | * You help the cause more if you tag regularly. But you still help if you tag sporadically — when you notice something, when you have time. | ||
== Crowd-sourced projects need all kinds of help. == | |||
* The more taggers we have, in more niches, the more comprehensively OATP will keep people informed and support research into OA. It doesn't matter what niches you occupy, what subtopics you care about, or how much time you have. You can still help others stay on top of OA news, comment, and history. | |||
== Persuaded? == | |||
We hope you'll [[Get started as a tagger|give it a try]]. | We hope you'll [[Get started as a tagger|give it a try]]. | ||
Revision as of 14:42, 14 March 2018
Harvard Open Access Project (HOAP) » Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » Get started as a tagger
When you tag for OATP, you contribute to the larger effort to keep people informed about OA and support research into OA. When you tag OA-related resources, you push information to thousands of OATP feed subscribers and store the records in the OATP database for deduping, export, preservation, updating, and search.
What sorts of things does OATP want to tag? Articles, preprints, studies, surveys, reports, announcements, books, dissertations, datasets, calls for papers, funding opportunities, job ads, events, organizations, projects, tools, services, blog posts, slide presentations, videos, podcasts. If it's about OA (and if it's online with a unique URL), then we want to tag it, new or old, in any language, from any country, on any aspect of OA.
No small group can do all of this on its own. That's why we need your help.
We welcome taggers of all kinds.
Generalists and specialists
- Some taggers are wide ranging and don't limit themselves to certain niches or subtopics. They tag anything about OA, or anything they encounter.
- Some focus on a given niche, even if they also tag outside that niche. For example, they may focus on OA in a given academic field, country, region, language, or subtopic.
Gatherers and searchers
- Some tag only what they happen to notice, making it small addition to their ordinary routine.
- Some search systematically for developments, at least in a given niche. For example, if you are committed to tagging all OA activity in a certain field or country, then you might start with a systematic search for past activity in that field or country. Or if you want to report the news on a certain OA subtopic, like ECR (early career researchers) or OER (open educational resources), then every day or two you might search systematically for recent news and comment on those topics. If you're doing a research project on a some aspect of OA, then you're already doing a systematic search for work already done on that topic, and only need to make sure it's all tagged for OATP.
News reporters and historians
- Some focus on new developments, because they're trying to keep up. They use OATP to share what they discover.
- Some focus on older developments, because they are researching past work on some aspect of OA.
- We want to cover new developments in order to keep our feed subscribers up to date on new developments. Ideally we like to tag new developments within 12 or 24 developments of their appearance online.
- We want to cover older developments in order to make our tags retroactively comprehensive.
Regulars and irregulars
- You help the cause more if you tag regularly. But you still help if you tag sporadically — when you notice something, when you have time.
Crowd-sourced projects need all kinds of help.
- The more taggers we have, in more niches, the more comprehensively OATP will keep people informed and support research into OA. It doesn't matter what niches you occupy, what subtopics you care about, or how much time you have. You can still help others stay on top of OA news, comment, and history.
Persuaded?
We hope you'll give it a try.