Transcript FORCE11
Future of Research Communications and E-Scholarship What is the FORCE11? Future of Research Communications and E-Scholarship: A grass roots effort to accelerate the pace and nature of scholarly communications and e-scholarship through technology, education and community Why 11? We were born in 2011 in Dagstuhl, Germany Principles laid out in the FORCE11 Manifesto FORCE11 Vision • Modern technologies enable vastly improve knowledge transfer and far wider impact; freed from the restrictions of paper, numerous advantages appear • We see a future in which scientific information and scholarly communication more generally become part of a global, universal and explicit network of knowledge • To enable this vision, we need to create and use new forms of scholarly publication that work with reusable scholarly artifacts • To obtain the benefits that networked knowledge promises, we have to put in place reward systems that encourage scholars and researchers to participate and contribute • To ensure that this exciting future can develop and be sustained, we have to support the rich, variegated, integrated and disparate knowledge offerings that new technologies enable Beyond the PDF Visual Notes by De Jongens van de Tekeningen is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Who is FORCE11? Scholars Tool builders Publishers Science Social Sciences Library and Information scientists Humanities Funders Policy makers Anyone who has a stake in moving scholarly communication into the 21st century FORCE11.org >350 members from diverse stakeholder group • Community platform – – – – – – Discussion group Tool registry Blogs Events Bibliography Community projects • Education – Scholarly communication 101 Beyond the PDF • Conference/unconfe rence where all stakeholders come together as equals to discuss issues • Incubator for change • What would you do to change scholarly communication? San Diego, Jan 2011 ........... Amsterdam, March 2013 Beyond the PDF2 • >200 attendees 150 100 50 0 FORCE11 Vision Award: Carole Goble “Don’t Publish; Release” Amsterdam, March 19-20, 2013 Outcomes • FORCE11 Manifesto 2.0 – Recommendations for propelling scholarly communications into the future • 1K Challenge: – What would you do for 1K to change scholarly communication? • Landscape of scholarly communication – Who is doing what? – Are their gaps? Manifesto 1.0 Manifesto 2.0 Problems Recommendations Formats and Technologies 2.1 Existing formats needlessly limit, inhibit and undermine effective knowledge transfer 2.2 Improved knowledge dissemination mechanisms produce information overload 2.3 Claims are hard to verify and results are hard to reuse 3.1 Rethink the unit and form of the scholarly publication 3.2 Develop tools and technologies that better support the scholarly lifecycle 3.3 Add data, software, and workflows into the publication as first-class research objects Business Models and Attribution of Credit 2.4 There is a tension between commercial 3.4 Derive new financially sustainable models of publishing and the provision of unfettered access open access to scholarly information 2.5 Traditional business models of publishing are 3.5 Derive new business models for science being threatened publishers and libraries 2.6 Current academic assessment models don’t 3.6 Derive new methods and metrics for adequately measure the merit of scholars and evaluating quality and impact that extend their work over the full breadth of their research beyond traditional print outputs to embrace the outputs new technologies Can we check some things off? What do we need to add? Why is the Manifesto a PDF? • The Manifesto should be an exemplar of a new form of scholarly communication – Interactive – Collaborative – Born for the web • The Digital Humanities has been thinking and creating in this medium Tara McPherson, University of Southern California Scholarly communication landscape: Is there a big picture? Workflows 4Ever Data Verse ORCID PeerJ, eLife Research Data Alliance Scalar Impact Story, Rubriq Data journals Sadie Are we really suffering from a lack of tools? -or is it usable tools? -or is it tools that are used? -or is it awareness that there are tools? -or are these even the right tools? What can we do now? • Are there known best practices and tools that can/should be used now by the FORCE11 community? e.g., ORCID ID • Shouldn’t we be inventing the future? What big issues are we not addressing? New roles and vanishing roles • • • • • • Librarians are publishers Scholars are curators Publishers are archivists Scholars are customers Scholars are publishers Everyone is a standards developer! Is there still a role for everyone? What big issues are we not addressing? Are there broad agreements that need to be forged? • Open citations? Text mining across the corpus? An open alternative to Google Scholar? Where is lack of coordination holding us back? Are the issues the same for all stakeholders? • • • • • Humanities and sciences Developed and developing world Technologists and scholars Institutions and individuals Scholars and taxpayers Can and should everyone be brought to the table for all discussions? Questions for you? Is your community represented in FORCE11? Are your needs the same as other stakeholders in the areas of: • • • • • Containers Processes Mark up Authoring Reward Do you have other needs not outlined in the manifesto? What do you need from FORCE11? • • • • • • Users? Tools? Collaborators? Advertising? A bully pulpit? Protocols and best practices? What can you do for FORCE11?