OAI11 – CERN-UNIGE Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication

Session

Session 8

S8

21 Jun 2019, 11:00

Uni Mail, auditorium M R380 (University of Geneva)

Conveners

Session 8: Beyond the known Known

• Tiberius Ignat (Scientific Knowledge Services)

74. State of communication: how, why and where researchers are publicising their work before publication

Charlie Rapple

21/06/2019, 11:00

The processes of knowledge exchange and research evaluation are changing; the role of the publication (the "known known") is gradually being eroded by both new metrics (more nuanced and sophisticated), and new approaches to and formats for communication (beyond the "known known"). Many researchers now begin communicating about their work a long time before the point of publication, whether to...

75. Talking science through videogames

Attila Szantner (MMOS)

21/06/2019, 11:15

The gaining of ground of different forms of pseudoscience and fake news warns us how important is strategically to put substantial efforts in communicating the scientific methods and results to the general public and continuously search for innovative ways to do so. Citizen science is among the best tools to accomplish this by inviting the general public to participate and contribute to the...

76. Rethinking Scholarly Communication with AI: Keywords Are Not the Answer to Improve Your Search Result

Linda Andersson

21/06/2019, 11:30

Researchers and students are overwhelmed by the current rate of scientific paper publishing. As a consequence, their literature search and review activity has become more complex and time-consuming. The Information needs vary widely in different academic disciplines. The traditional search technology requires keywords, however, keywords are a limited representation of information needs. The...

77. How to involve Citizen Scientists to develop Ethical AI for Knowledge Exchange

Huma Shah

21/06/2019, 11:45

This talk will be a two-part presentation raising awareness of:

a) The importance of artificial intelligence (AI) being democratised so that citizen scientists are informally educated, not only about their rights to privacy under the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), but also how privacy is compromised in a world of machine learning algorithms applied to humans as data...

110. Q&A Panel

Linda Andersson, Charlie Rapple, Huma Shah, Attila Szantner (MMOS)

21/06/2019, 12:00