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Michael RidleyChief Information Officer (CIO) & Chief Librarian
University of Guelph
OCUL Fall Meeting 2008, Lakehead University
Scholarly Communications
1. Themes
& Trends2. Impacts
& Implicati
ons
3. Q &
A
Agenda
Impressionistic, not comprehensive.
Launching pad, not a recipe or blueprint.
Provocative, but not unrealistic.
“The way forward is paradoxically
to look not ahead, but to look around.”
CommunicationsReputation
Smart Information
CyberInfrastructurePreservation
Where Are We?
Navigating the Landscape
Collaboration
Innovation
Innovation
Collaboration
The New 16GB iPod nano
The Eventual 2PB iPod nano
The (In)visibility of the Library
The Importance of Disciplines …
… And of Science in Particular
Faculty Needs in
Service Development
System-wide Approaches
to System-wide IssuesAnother in a series
of wake-up calls regarding
the confluence of scholarship &
academic libraries
“When simple change becomes transformational change …
… the desire for continuity becomes a dysfunctional mirage.”
The Mirage of Continuity (Hawkins & Battin)
Communications
Communication is not publishing
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.
Smart Information
Not people finding information but information finding people
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.
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”
Reputation
Academic values persist but morph
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.
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.
Preservation
Integrity Management
Integrity management: the information ecology
Not as much the objects and more the interconnections & dependencies.
Libraries as coherence engines with sense making tools.
Preservation = accessPreservation = integrity
CyberInfrastructure
Platform, tools & environment
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?
“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 Mail June 7, 2008
Where Are We?
Leadership roles, choices, & alternative futures
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).
“Culture eats strategy for lunch
every day of the week.”
Elson Floyd, President
Washington State University
The demise of the Titanic
was brought about by the
As we consider the future of scholarly communications, are we thinking about airplanes or icebergs?
In the final analysis the Titanic was not sunk
by an iceberg.
rise of commercial air travel.
A Cautionary Tale...
Michael RidleyChief Information Officer (CIO) & Chief Librarian
University of Guelph
OCUL Fall Meeting 2008, Lakehead University
Scholarly Communications
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