STM Innovations Seminar 2011

play Time Travel for the Scholarly Web
Herbert Van de Sompel
Staff Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory The scholarly communication system is still transitioning from its paper-based origins to a successor incarnation that is truly grounded in the Web. While the Web offers enormous opportunities, devising Web-based approaches to achieve functionalities that were commonplace in the paper-based system can be problematic. This presentation explores some challenges involved in achieving a Web-based scholarly communication record that preserves temporal context. It will discuss how the Memento “Time Travel for the Web” framework can be leveraged with this regard.

play Computation meets Knowledge
Conrad Wolfram
Strategic Director and European co-founder, Wolfram Research The value-chain of knowledge is being rapidly redefined. Rather than static information in dead documents, readers increasingly expect active content they can drive, interact with, and automatically recompute from. They correctly perceive that these changes can dramatically step-up the bandwidth of communicating technical ideas and increase the value of the content. Yet up to now few such active journals or scientific books have existed because their cost of production is too high with professional programmers rather than the authors themselves typically needed to build the content. Conrad Wolfram will discuss what’s needed to change this, including demonstrating the new Computable Document Format (CDF) live, and explaining how we’ll soon be entering a new era of citizen interactive document authoring.

play Mobile or Desktop? Kindle or iPad? HTML5 or ePub? Why we should wait and see
Daniel Pollock
NPG

play Article Evolution
Graham McCann
IoPP

play Portfolio Expansion
Kent Anderson
JBJS

play Connecting to external data sets through SciVerse Applications
IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg
Elsevier

play Journal Article Mining and Scholarly Publishers
Maurits van der Graaf
Pleiade Management Consultancy and Management BV The essence of text mining and data mining is that a machine and software is used for content analysis of large digital corpora. The Publishing Research Consortium commissioned a study on content mining of scholarly journal articles with 29 expert interviews and an international survey among publishers. The results with regard to the present policies and activities of publishers will be presented. As content mining of journal articles will spread and intensify, cross-publisher solutions can help facilitate content mining better. Various options for such cross publisher solutions will be discussed.

play Text Mining meets Crowd Sourcing: author disambiguation in High-Energy Physics
Salvatore Mele
Head of Open Access, CERN Author disambiguation is a systemic issue in scholarly publishing, and the field of high-energy physics is an interesting example of issues in the management of authors… as some recent articles from the LHC project have over 2,500 authors (yes, you read well, that’s two thousands five hundreds).

play Next Generation IEEE Research Article
Prakash Bellur
 

play Much Ado About Data
Dave Martinsen
ACS