The presentation explores the trend towards a scholarly communication system that is friendly to machines. It presents 3 exhibits illustrating the trend and 1 exhibit illustrating inertia in the system. It makes the point that machine-actionability can be much easier achieved if content and metadata are available in Open Access and under a permissive Creative Commons license. It also observes that even with content and metadata openly available, new costs related to advanced tools to explore the scholarly record will emerge. Finally, it points at significant challenges regarding the persistence of the scholarly record in light of increasingly interconnected and actionable content and advanced tools to interact with it.
The slides were used for a plenary presentation at the LIBER 2011 Conference in Barcelona, Spain, on June 30 2011.
6. • Augmentation of the scholarly record
with a machine actionable substrate
• Integration of datasets into the
scholarly record
• Exposure of scholarly process and its
integration in the scholarly record
Van de Sompel & Lagoze All Aboard: Toward a Machine-Friendly Scholarly Communication
System. In: The Fourth Paradigm. h"p://research.microso=.com/en-‐us/collaboraAon/fourthparadigm/
7. • Unique identifiers (URI) for every Thing
• Typed Links, Vocabularies,
Ontologies (URI, RDF, RDFS, OWL)
• Ability to publish information about a Thing
• Ability for human and machine to look
Things up (HTTP)
15. Version
NavigaAon:
Time
Series
Analysis
Van de Sompel et. al. An
HTTP-‐Based
Versioning
Mechanism
for
Linked
Data
LDOW
2009
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abs/1003.3661
17. The Paper Deluge
• Too
much
scholarly
publicaAons
to
consume
• Too
hard
to
make
cross-‐discipline
connecAons,
to
combine
exisAng
disparate
findings
to
arrive
at
new
insights
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transla<onal
research
with
the
Seman<c
Web
BMC
Bioinf.
8(suppl.
3)
S2
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18. Literature Mining
Verspoor et. al. The
textual
characteris<cs
of
tradi<onal
and
Open
Access
scien<fic
journals
are
similar.
BMC
Bioinforma:cs
2009,
10:183
h"p://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-‐2105-‐10-‐183
23. A Fix for the Nerds
Groth et. al. The Anatomy of a Nano-publication Information Services and Use 30(1), p.51-56,
2010 http://iospress.metapress.com/index/FTKH21Q50T521WM2.pdf
24. Publish, Merge, Search,
Reason, Predict, Integrate
Clare et. al. Exploring
the
Genera<on
and
Integra<on
of
Publishable
Scien<fic
Facts
Using
the
Concept
of
Nano-‐publica<ons
ESWC 2011 https://svn.kwarc.info/repos/clange/conferences/eswc2011/sepublica/
proceedings/999990013/999990013.pdf
25. Mons (2011) Nanopublications OAI7 Workshop presentation http://indico.cern.ch/
contributionDisplay.py?sessionId=13&contribId=38&confId=103325
26. Smit & van der Graaf (2011) Journal Article Mining h"p://www.publishingresearch.net/documents/
PRCSmitJAMreport20June2011VersionofRecord.pdf
30. Executable
Paper:
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Environment Procedia
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33. Link
Rot,
CitaAon
Rot,
Service
Rot
Sanderson et al. (2011) Analyzing
the
Persistence
of
Referenced
Web
Resources
with
Memento
Open
Repositories
Conference
Paper http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.3459
38. Automatic Citation Graph
1. Article splash page in open access, crawl-enabled.
2. Splash page with recognizable References section
3. References that URI-link to the cited article
h"p://portal.acm.org
39. Open Data for Metrics
http://openurl.ac.uk/doc/data/thedata.html
40. Keep Your Eye On The Ball
h"p://www.flickr.com/photos/garryknight/3595141669/