OAI10 - CERN - UNIGE Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication

Session

Plenary 1

P1

21 Jun 2017, 14:00

University of Geneva

Conveners

Plenary 1: Technical Session

• Herbert Van de Sompel

12. Tech. session : Making a case for decentralised scholarly communication

Mr Sarven Capadisli

21/06/2017, 14:00

This talk will describe the socio-technical problem space which makes it challenging to create a native Web-based scholarly communication.  Topics such as accessibility, centralisation, communication, user experience, machine-readability, and community practice will be discussed in order to investigate the necessity to materialise solutions towards decentralised scholarly communication....

13. Tech. session : Interoperability and Data FAIRness emerges from a novel combination of Web technologies

Dr Mark Wilkinson

21/06/2017, 14:30

To be truly useful, Open Data must be more than a file deposited in a public repository. The recently published FAIR Principles for scholarly data - Findability, Accessibility, Interoperabiliy, and Reusability - provide guideposts toward an emergent scholarly publication landscape where data, and its provenance, are transparently available for evaluation and reuse by both humans and machines....

23. Tech. session : The Web is not a Glorified USB Stick

Mr Phil Archer

21/06/2017, 15:00

W3C's data strategist, Phil Archer, is calling for a revolution. Not a political one, and certainly not a violent one, but a revolution nonetheless. A revolution in the way people think about the way data is shared on the Web, whether openly or not; an end to using the Web to do no more than transfer data from A to B in a way that could be just as easily achieved by putting it on a USB stick...