SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION Trends and Developments

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SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION -Trends and Developments

• David Brown
• Head, Scholarly Communication and Innovation
  Support
• 26 April, 2006

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SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION

• It was the best of times, it was the worst of
  times A tale of two cities, Charles Dickens,
• But also
• http//www.epic2015.com
• Museum of Media History
• Newspapers go offline
• Googlezon
• Change
• Free

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SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION

• Outline of Presentation
• Background
• Political Agenda
• Technology an Business issues
• The New Contenders
• The Digital User
• Impact on the National Library (BL)

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SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION

• 2. The Political Agenda (1)
• Global
• Congress and NIH
• The 3 Bs
• OECD
• The EU

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SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION

• The Political Agenda (2)
• The United Kingdom
• Gordon Browns Science commitment (2004)
• House of Commons Select Committee (July 2004)
• Wellcome Trust (2003, 2004)
• RCUK (2006?)

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SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION

• Technology and Business Issues (1)
• The Internet and the Web
• Metcalfes Law
• Computer Technology
• Moores Law
• Semantic Web and Web 2.0

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SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION

• Technology and Business Issues (2)
• Business Issues
• Free, openess and interoperability
• Refereeing
• Standards

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SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION

• Valley of Death

Printed subscriptions
Digital Information
revenue
time
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SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION

• The New Contenders (1)
• 4.1. Open Access Publishing
• 9 Varieties
• Search engines
• 4.2. e-Science, Grids, Collaboratories
• Atkins report on Cyberinfrastructure
• JISC/Tony Hey on e-Science

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SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION

• The New Contenders (2)
• 4.3. Semantic Web and Ontologies
• Giving computer understandable meaning
  (semantics) to contents of documents on web
• Ontology taxonomy and set of inference rules
• 4.4. Social Publishing and Folksonomies
• Clay Shirky/David Weinberger
• Network concept and Grass Roots

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SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION

• The New Contenders (3)
• 4.4. Social Publishing (cont)
• Mash-Ups
• Natural Text Processing

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SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATON

• The Gartner Hype Cycle

visibility
Web 2.0
RSS PDA CSS MySpace
Plateau of Productivity
AJAX
DRM
Point Cast
Social Publishing
Peak of Expectations
Slope of Enlightenment
maturity
Trough of Disillusionment
Technology Trigger
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SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION

• The Digital User
• Network Effect The Long Tail (Chris Anderson)
  The Disenfranchised Knowledge Workers (and
  search engines) Wisdom of the Crowd
• The digital trail CIBER and UCL
• Subject differentiation
• Subscribe to your brain

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SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION

• Impact on the National Library (BL)
• Revisit the EPIC2015 site
• Archiving and Preservation
• Multiple Formats
• e-Legal Deposit