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The new role of professional organisations in the management of scientific knowledge

The new role of professional organisations in the management of scientific knowledge. Žiga Turk, Bo-Christer Bjoerk, Bob Martens, Etial Petrinja presentation at CIB W79 conference, Aarhus, June 2002. IST- 200 1- 3 3 127. IST- 200 1- 3 3 127. August 24, 2014. www.SciX.net. introduction.

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The new role of professional organisations in the management of scientific knowledge

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  1. The new role of professional organisations in the management of scientific knowledge Žiga Turk, Bo-Christer Bjoerk, Bob Martens, Etial Petrinjapresentation at CIB W79 conference, Aarhus, June 2002. IST-2001-33127 IST-2001-33127 August 24, 2014 www.SciX.net

  2. introduction What this talk is about? • the SciX project • what SciX can do for you • what you can do for SciX

  3. as-is Current situation • do research • write paper for free • review for free • edit journal for free • give away the copy-right for free • buy the results of the above (subscribe to journal)

  4. as-is Who else is adding value • publisher • printing, subscriptions, distribution • library • archiving • catalogue builder (ICONDA, ISI) • cataloguing, indexing, citation counting • professional organisation • handed the journal over to the publisher in the early 1900s • endorses a journal

  5. as-is Who is the user • researchers • as readers (?) • who thought of it first (?) • general public • can they afford it (???) • research evaluation administrations (!)

  6. as-is Result • inelastic market • periodicals crisis • fewer subscribers, costlier journals • package deals • University/country licenses • readers have less control over subscriptions

  7. examples Exemplars of free models • e-journals and archives • Los Alamos • CiteSeer • Open Archives • free software • GNU/GPL • Open Source • Perl Artistic License • free standards • Internet RFCs

  8. examples Baselines • the ITcon journal (1996) • electronic journal of IT in construction • publication time 4-5 months • 500-1000 readers per paper • CUMINCAD (1999) • cumulative index of CAD • 4000 papers with abstracts • 1000 with full texts • 800+ registered users • survey on e-publishing (2000) • read electronic, publish on paper • don’t care who reads • W78’96 and W78’2000 • web based organisation

  9. SciX project SciX project • IST-2001-33127, KAIII • EU funding €1.000.000 • 200 person months • Project duration • 1.2.2002 - 31.1.2004 • Partners: 7 • Deliverables: 20, all public and/or open source • Web: www.SciX.net

  10. SciX project Partners • academic • Ljubljana • Hanken • Salford • Vienna • e-business • Indra • professional • IBRI, FGGI

  11. SciX project Partners (cont.)

  12. SciX project What are we doing • process modelling of the as-is process • suggestion of the to-be process • study of the barriers to change • system analysis and design • interoperability • information models • standards compliance • machine learning, clustering

  13. SciX project Tangible results – demonstrators • e-journal infrastructure • preprints, PhD theses archive • bibliographic index • content wrapping • as rentable infrastructure • and/or open source code

  14. SciX project Related work in construction informatics • ontology of construction • what is construction informatics • what are the objects of study, how to structure the field • automatic clustering/classification • ICCI project – http://icci.vtt.fi/ • interoperability • Dublin core • Open archives standards • Topic maps • WSDL • “semantic” web

  15. CIB W78 Past role of CIB • member organisations • experts in these organisations • names and addresses • get them together from time to time, workshops, conferences • distribute newsletters

  16. CIB W78 What has changed? • today – people found on the Internet, groups established ad hoc • easy to get sm@rt people together, new tracks of conferences … • the difference is in • past track record • prestige • where is it? • buried • grey literature

  17. CIB W78 What SciX can do for W78 • W78 digital archive … all proceedings in electronic form • searchable • friendly to general and specialised search engines

  18. CIB W78 What W78 can do to help • provide content in digital format • 50% of the costs is digitalisation (UMICH) • 80% in the case of CUMINCAD • fund digital archive • how much? • ECPPM 2002 … E100 per paper • SciX should provide an answer (estimate E5-10 per paper) • W78 bylaws • free, electronic availability of papers • support digital archive through conference fees • unify format of the papers

  19. end The end www.SciX.net

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