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Scholarly Communications

Scholarly Communications. Michael Ridley Chief Information Officer (CIO) & Chief Librarian University of Guelph OCUL Fall Meeting 2008, Lakehead University. Agenda. 1. Themes & Trends. Impressionistic, not comprehensive. Launching pad, not a recipe or blueprint.

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Scholarly Communications

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  1. Scholarly Communications Michael RidleyChief Information Officer (CIO) & Chief Librarian University of GuelphOCUL Fall Meeting 2008, Lakehead University

  2. Agenda 1. Themes & Trends Impressionistic, not comprehensive. Launching pad, not a recipe or blueprint. Provocative, but not unrealistic. 2. Impacts & Implications 3. Q & A

  3. “The way forward is paradoxically to look not ahead, but to look around.”

  4. Reputation Communications Preservation Smart Information CyberInfrastructure Navigating the Landscape Where Are We?

  5. Collaboration Innovation

  6. Collaboration Innovation

  7. The New 16GB iPod nano The Eventual 2PB iPod nano

  8. The (In)visibility of the Library The Importance of Disciplines … … And of Science in Particular Faculty Needs in Service Development System-wide Approachesto System-wide Issues Another in a series of wake-up calls regarding the confluence of scholarship & academic libraries

  9. “When simple change becomes transformational change … … the desire for continuity becomes a dysfunctional mirage.” The Mirage of Continuity (Hawkins & Battin)

  10. Communications

  11. Communication is not publishing

  12. Old School: (e)Books & (e)Journals. New School: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Graduate Junction … and (e)Books & (e)Journals. Websites, Multimedia, Blogs, Tweets, Simulations, Visualization, Commentary, Data, Data, Data.

  13. Smart Information

  14. Not people finding information but information finding people

  15. Massively distributed & ubiquitous content; with intelligent, proactive metadata. Interoperable objects/data/content: not references or links but semantically embedded dependences. The scholarship is in the network not the content nodes; focus on the connections, the relationships, the glue.

  16. Plastic objects: adjusted, played with, riffed on, sampled, repurposed (yet with integrity, authority, authenticity preserved). An architecture of participation within a global environment. Cyberscholarship: “Correlation is enough”

  17. Reputation

  18. Academic values persist but morph

  19. Old School: peer review, P&T, citations, league tables. New School: reputation management. An integration of smart information, social networks, global reach, ubiquitous content, & participatory architecture.

  20. Trust, reputation management, verification, validation: automated (e.g. digital money – Friedman’s Future Imperfect). “Networked individualism” Barry Wellman Academic research libraries as trusted agents in managing people (reputation) not just information.

  21. Preservation

  22. Integrity Management

  23. Integrity management: the information ecology

  24. Not as much the objects and more the interconnections & dependencies. Libraries as coherence engines with sense making tools. Preservation = accessPreservation = integrity

  25. CyberInfrastructure

  26. Platform, tools & environment

  27. Virtual Research Organizations (VROs) Disciplinary, trans-national, emergent, large scale, proven(?), powerful. Not just big science, not even just science; transforming the humanities. CI & VROs – the new research library?

  28. “The number of PhDs the Chinese plan to graduate with the next 10 years is greater than the entire population of Canada” Mike Lazaridis Co-CEO, RIM Chancellor, University of Waterloo Quoted in the Globe and MailJune 7, 2008

  29. Where Are We?

  30. Leadership roles, choices, & alternative futures

  31. Collaboration: beyond OCUL, outside libraries. Technology: we ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Complexity: data curation; full scholarly communication lifecycle. Leadership: the big picture “agency” (the academic research library consortium).

  32. “Culture eats strategy for lunch every day of the week.” Elson Floyd, PresidentWashington State University

  33. A Cautionary Tale... In the final analysis the Titanic was not sunk by an iceberg. The demise of the Titanic was brought about by the rise of commercial air travel. As we consider the future of scholarly communications, are we thinking about airplanes oricebergs?

  34. Scholarly Communications Michael RidleyChief Information Officer (CIO) & Chief Librarian University of GuelphOCUL Fall Meeting 2008, Lakehead University

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