Clifford Tatum

PhD Candidate, Leiden University - CWTS
Manager, ACUMEN Research, Leiden University
Digital Scholarship Fellow, eHumanities Group

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Clifford Tatum is a PhD candidate at Leiden University, Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), where he is also project manager of Academic Careers Understood through Measurement and Norms (ACUMEN), a European research collaboration focused on improving assessment techniques used in evaluation of individual researchers. In addition, Tatum is an associate researcher at the eHumanities Group (KNAW) in Amsterdam. His current projects at the eHumanities Group include development of Enhanced Publications for a set of traditionally published books and development of a web portal for co-location of digital Humanities labs (AlfaLab) with shared epistemological investments in digital methods. Tatum’s PhD research examines socio-technical dynamics in new constructions of openness in scholarly communication.

Publications

Tatum, Clifford and Nicholas Jankowski. 2012. "Beyond Open Access: a Framework for Openness in Scholarly Communication." In Virtual Knowledge, edited by Paul Wouters, Anne Beaulieu, Andrea Scharnhorst, and Sally Wyatt, MIT Press.

Tatum, Zuotian and Clifford Tatum. 2012. "WordPress plugin: Enhanced Publication - Semantic Web ontology and RDF output." Published on the WordPress (open access) plugin repository, http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/enhanced-publication/.

Jankowski, Nicholas, Andrea Scharnhorst, Clifford Tatum, and Zuotian Tatum. 2011. Enhancing Scholarly Publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Developing Hybrid Monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Utrecht: SURFfoundation Technical Report (available at SSRN), http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1982380.

Tatum, Zuotian and Clifford Tatum. 2011. "WordPress plugin: Enhanced Bibliplug - Reference management and extended author profiles." Published on the WordPress (open access) plugin repository, http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/enhanced-bibliplug/.

Tatum, Clifford and Michelle Lafrance. 2009. "Wikipedia as Distributed Knowledge Laboratory: The Case of Neoliberalism." In e-Research: Transformations in Scholarly Practice, edited by Nicholas Jankowski, 310-327. New York: Routledge.

Tatum, Clifford. 2006. "Book Review: Information Politics on the Web. (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press), Rogers, R. 2004." New Media & Society, 8 (3).

Tatum, Clifford. 2005. "Deconstructing Google bombs: A breach of symbolic power or just a goofy prank?" First Monday, 10 (10).

Presentations

Tatum, Clifford. 2010. "Open Collaboration - The case of PICNIC, a creative industry conference in Amsterdam." Paper presented at European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST). September 02-04. Trento, Italy.

Tatum, Clifford. 2010. "The role of openness in collaborative knowledge production." July 09. Oxford, UK.

Tatum, Clifford. 2009. "Epistemic culture clash: Openness in the Humanities and Social Sciences." Paper presented at Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on e-Social Science, Cologne, Germany, June 24-26, 2009.

Tatum, Clifford. 2007. "The Urban Blogosphere: Gaming the Sacred Text in the New Media-Middle." Paper presented at Association of Internet Researchers. Vancouver, Canada.

Tatum, Clifford. 2007. "Co-production of Knowledge in the Emergent Media Middle – Towards a New Framework." Paper presented at Society for Social Studies of Science. Montreal, Quebec.

Tatum, Clifford and Kirsten Foot. 2007. "From ad-hoc to infrastructure: The lifecycle of hyperlink networks and its implications for social, cultural, and political activity." Paper presented at New Network Theory, University of Amsterdam. Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Tatum, Clifford. 2007. "The Case of Wikipedia: a view to collaborative research." Paper presented at European Association for the Study of Science and Technology. Lausanne, Switzerland.

Tatum, Clifford. 2006. "Wikipedia as a Distributed Knowledge Laboratory." Paper presented at National Centre for e-Social Science. Manchester, United Kingdom.

Wouters, Paul, Clifford Tatum, and Julie Villegas. 2006. "Paradox and Progress: Exploring Urban Culture in Amsterdam through Interdisciplinary e-Research." 2006, August 26. University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Tatum, Clifford. 2005. "Emerging Methods for Analyzing A New Generation of Civic Engagement on the Web: "Place, Space and Civic Engagement in the Chinese Diaspora"." Paper presented at Association of Internet Researchers. Chicago, IL.

Tatum, Clifford and Ted Coopman. 2004. "Resistance for the Rest of Us: Apple, File Sharing, and the Transversal Paradox." Paper presented at Association of Internet Researchers. Sussex, United Kingdom.