librinnovando 2010: "l’editoria scientifica fra digitale, oa, valutazione, nuovi servizi e...

12 novembre 201012 novembre 2010

LiLiquidPub: Scientific Publications meet the Web

Aliaksandr Birukou University of Trento


Li• Small or medium-focused research project funded by the European

Commission under FP7 FET OPEN (Future and Emerging Technologies) scheme

• Runs from May 2008 till April 2011• Budget of 2.1M € • Partners

LiquidPub project


Li• Capture the lessons learned and opportunities provided

by: the Web and open source, agile development

• to develop concepts, models, metrics, and tools for an efficient (for people), effective (for science), and sustainable (for publishers and the community) way of creating, disseminating, evaluating, and consuming scientific knowledge

• Understand what’s good for science, and make it happen

LiquidPub goal


Lio See http://project.liquidpub.org/research-areas

o Scientific Knowledge Objectso Research evaluation and peer review analysiso Managing lifecycle of web artifactso Licensing and copyright

o Case studies:o Liquid Journals (tool for collaborative collection of interesting content)o Liquid Books (collaborative creation of [not only] teaching material)o Instant Communities (ad-hoc communities for people attending the

same seminar/talk/panel)o Liquid Conferences (platform for interdisciplinary conferences where

invited papers are presented for community discourse)

LiquidPub. What we are working on?


Li• Liquid books (LB): collaborative, evolutionary,

multi-facet versions of the traditional books

LiquidBooks. Concepts

Contributors Content Editors

ContractPublisher

Editions


LiExample # editions Authorship

and royaltiesModifications Time to

markerSoftware analogy

Traditional book

Low Defined in the contract, need to re-define for each variation

Not possible without agreement with authors and publisher

High Waterfall

Truly liquid book

High, each tailored to target audience

Simple and well-defined in the contract, not necessarily involves publisher

Possible without asking for permission to authors and publisher

Low Agile, open source

LiquidBook. Examples


Li• Pilot on publishing several liquid books with Springer

• Send proposal (topic, authors, short description) to fabio.casati AT gmail.com cc birukou AT gmail.com

LiquidBooks for teaching. Call for action

winter summer autumn


Li• Low barriers & short time to market -> more

competent but busy people involved in writing

• Agile -> up to date concurrent editions, tailored to readers, pricing reflects improving quality and completeness

• New credit attribution rules & less constraints -> facilitate collaboration&reuse: editor(s) take/edit/aggregate content from contributors

LiquidBooks. Features & Benefits


LiInstant communities. Motivation

Image from http://www.nidcr.nih.gov/CareersAndTraining/PhotoGallery/Archive/CareerDayPanel.htm

interactioninteraction

I wonder how it is

related con data

mining…

I wonder how it is

related con data

mining…

I’ve seen a relevant paper at ESWC’09

I’ve seen a relevant paper at ESWC’09


LiOther contexts

Image from http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/seminars/wednesday-seminar.jpgImage from http://www.transformlifestyle.com/img/seminar4.jpg

SEMINARSEMINAR CONFERENCECONFERENCE

Image from http://www.flickr.com/photos/50981258@N05/4690733588/sizes/s/in/photostream/

RESEARCH GROUPRESEARCH GROUP


LiAdd material

MobileMobiledevicesdevices

E-mailE-mail

WebWeb


LiOrganize: link, tag, annotate

Data

Data

Data


LiShare and consume


Li• Visit our website:

The LiquidPub project. http://project.liquidpub.org

Tools we developed: http://project.liquidpub.org/tools • Google liquidpub-announce and subscribe if you are

interested (VERY low traffic): http://disi.unitn.it/mailman/listinfo/liquidpub-announce

• Or, subscribe to our blog: http://liquidpub.wordpress.com

• Or, follow us on twitter: http://twitter.com/liquidpub

MORE

librinnovando 2010: "l’editoria scientifica fra digitale, oa, valutazione, nuovi servizi e...

Education