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Social Implications

Social Implications. e-Science Background Seeing the World as a System Drivers Scholarly communication Traces of Peer esteem Knowledge Organization. e-Science Background.

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Social Implications

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  1. Social Implications • e-Science Background • Seeing the World as a System • Drivers • Scholarly communication • Traces of Peer esteem • Knowledge Organization

  2. e-Science Background • Background: initiatives towards research infrastructures (UK e-Science, US cyberinfrastructure, EU e-infrastructure, others) • OeSS project on ethical, legal and instutional issues • Associated changes in scholarly communication (publishing, data sharing)

  3. Seeing the World as a System • Computer science impetus ‘a generic framework applicable to any digital object…any logical entity’(www.doi.org) • The online world as a Leibnizian world of monads or an (early) Wittgensteinian world which maps onto real world relations • From philosophy to socio-technical systems

  4. Drivers • The needs of researchers (transparency and access), the needs of markets (rights), the needs of government (privacy protection and regulation of competition), standards bodies (ISO) • How do standards become established (‘the IDF is not a standards body’, www.doi.org) - Imposition, widespread adoption, effectiveness in comparison with rivals?

  5. Scholarly communication • The differential role of informal/formal communication across the sciences • Increasing the role of ‘data’ in the scientific communication system (example comb-e-chem) • The problematic nature of data re-use (Provenance, anonymity of human research subjects, intellectual property, existing incentive systems)

  6. Traces of peer esteem • The valency of the position of hyperlinks • Reputation systems • Can digital objects stabilize network traces through ‘permanent’ markers? • Will digital objects standards be able to support disciplinary differences? • Will digital objects be able to support ‘fuzzy’ objects?

  7. Knowledge Organization • The way the world will be organized as knowledge will affect future histories • Where do standards in research and standards in the world of digital objects overlap and intersect? (libraries and publications? Data repositories? Commercial products? The world of digital objects?)

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