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Modérateurs
·Roberto Casati
·Gloria Origgi
·Luc Schneider
·Judith Simon
·Giuseppe Veltri
Invités
·Ahrash Bissel
·Veronica Boix Mansilla
·Katy Borner
·David Bourget
·Nicolas Bullot
·Cristiano Castelfranchi
·Steve Fuller
·Karim Gherab
·Grit Laudel
·Clifford Lynch
·Paolo Massa
·Enrico Negro
·Helen Nissenbaum
·Geoff Nunmberg
·Joseph Reagle
·Nicola Spotorno
·Bob Stein
·Dario Taraborelli
·Jesùs Vega
·Giuseppe Veltri
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On publishing
Roberto Casati
I discuss the social significance of publication in the life of a scientific knowledge object (SKO). The importance of publication is made evident by the complex issue of unpublication (the strong version of retraction whereby a SKO is completely destroyed). Unpublication is a tempting option in the electronic world. I argue against the viability of unpublication, both on practical and on principled grounds related to the cascading entitlements of published paper.
Date de publication : 26 mai 2009
Sifting through the Online Web of Knowledge
Eric Meyer
Ralph Schroeder
This essay examines how researchers gain access to knowledge at a time when scholarly communication and materials are increasingly moving online. This topic has so far mainly been discussed in terms of journal publication and readership. Here we take a broader view, including a variety of areas where knowledge production and dissemination is broader than journal publications and includes data and tools. A second reason to take a broader view extends the horizon still further, since scientific communication and collaboration are not just undergoing change within the research community, but also depend on wider changes such as the use of search engines and how they affect what can be found online generally. New search behaviours are particularly evident among a new generation of scholars and potential scholars. Hence we will look at changes in research as well as in the realm of online knowledge more broadly.
Date de publication : 16 mars 2009
What Science can learn from Google?
Chris Anderson
According to Chris Anderson, we are at "the end of science", that is, science as we know it." The quest for knowledge used to begin with grand theories. Now it begins with massive amounts of data. Welcome to the Petabyte Age."
"At the petabyte scale, information is not a matter of simple three- and four-dimensional taxonomy and order but of dimensionally agnostic statistics. It calls for an entirely different approach, one that requires us to lose the tether of data as something that can be visualized in its totality. It forces us to view data mathematically first and establish a context for it later."
Date de publication : 27 décembre 2008
Peer-to-peer review
Kathleen Fitzpatrick
I propose to focus, then, not just on the technological changes that many believe are necessary to allow academic publishing to flourish into the future, but on the social, intellectual, and institutional changes that are necessary to pave the way for such flourishing. In order for new modes of communication to become broadly accepted within the academy, scholars and their institutions must take a new look at the mission of the university, the goals of scholarly publishing, and the processes through which scholars conduct their work.
Date de publication : 15 octobre 2008
Back to Basics: How Technology and the Open Source Movement Can Save Science
David Koepsell
This paper argues that the golden age of science was never fully realized, and in the 20th Century became an unlikely ideal. Corporate and university cultures, combined with the realities of the marketplace for publishing, ensured that the ideal methodology of the sciences could not be put into practice. Only now, with the growth of the Open Source Movement, and the success of open wikis, can the scientific ideal, by which theories and hypotheses are aired for public and scientific scrutiny, flourish. But for this to happen, old notions of peer review, academic standards of publication and tenure review, and government sponsorship based upon the above, will all need to adjust accordingly.
Date de publication : 1 octobre 2008
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