[LINK] Liquid Publications: Rethinking knowledge dissemination

[Tom Worthington]

Fabio Casati has been working on changing how knowledge is disseminated 
with "Liquid Publications": <http://project.liquidpub.org/>.

He will give a free seminar on "Rethinking knowledge dissemination: 
Liquid Knowledge, Science Mashups, and other Research Trends", hosted by 
the CSIRO ICT Centre, in the famous Room N101, Computer Science and 
Information Technology Building at the Australian National University in 
Canberra, 11am, 22 November 2010: 
<http://cecs.anu.edu.au/seminars/more/SID/2737>.

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Seminar Announcement

ICT Centre, Acton
CSIRO

Date: Monday, 22 November 2010
Time: 1100--1200
Venue: Room N101, CSIT Building [Building 108]

Speaker: Fabio Casati

Title: Rethinking knowledge dissemination: Liquid Knowledge, Science 
Mashups, and other Research Trends at the University of Trento

Abstract:

The way scientific knowledge is created, disseminated, searched, 
consumed, and evaluated has been essentially the same for centuries, 
largely oblivious to the Web revolution. Despite technology, today it is 
very hard to find knowledge of interest - harder than it is to find 
interesting web pages - despite a HUGE effort done by the community in 
filtering it (e.g., via peer review) and in evaluating it (via metrics 
of dubious effectiveness, such as citation count). The growing community 
of researchers and exploding number of publication venues makes it even 
more difficult to navigate the sea of information.

This talk will describe Liquid Journals, which are a way to find, 
consume, create, and share interesting and relevant scientific knowledge.

They are based on a few key intuitions. The first is that scientific 
knowledge is not communicated (only) via isolated scientific papers, 
linked to each other via citations. Rather, it is exists in different 
kinds (data, experiments, ideas,...), it is communicated in different 
forms (papers, talks, blogs), it evolves almost continuously over time, 
and it is connected in a knowledge network (papers describe experiments 
that are built over datasets, all based on ideas inspired from other 
talks or blogs). The second intuition is that the network which would be 
so useful to navigate in the sea of scientific knowledge is not 
objective, but is rather subjective. Whether a paper is inspired from 
another, or whether a person contributed to a paper may be proven facts 
or may be opinions, which may also take different forms. The third 
intuition is that we can use the power of the community as editors to 
help us select knowledge among a sea of information, rather than leaving 
this role to a selected few. The fourth intuition is that editors and 
the community of readers can create knowledge. This is a huge potential 
that is currently untapped for various social and technical reasons, but 
that can be used to service the scientific community.

This talk will present the main ideas behind liquid journals and other 
liquid and collaborative knowledge dissemination models, and then focus 
on the services and social computing side, describing the IT 
infrastructure that enables each of us to provide, create, consume, and 
share scientific knowledge.

The talk will also provide an overview of other research done in Trento, 
and specifically on end-user mashups, process compliance, and social 
well-being.

Biography:

Fabio Casati is Professor of Computer Science at the University of 
Trento. He got his PhD from the Politecnico di Milano and then worked 
for over 7 years in Hewlett- Packard USA, where he was technical lead 
for the research program on business process intelligence. Fabio has 
also contributed (as software and data architect) to the development of 
several HP commercial products and solutions in the area of web services 
and business process management. In Trento, he is leading or 
participating to five FP7 projects, is active in many industry-funded 
projects, both local and international, and has over 30 patents. His 
passions are now in social informatics, or, informatics at the service 
of the community. His latest efforts are on prevention of 
non-communicable diseases, on remote and real-time healthcare, on 
collaborative programming, and on models for scientific disseminations 
that can help scientists work in a more efficient way.
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Tom Worthington FACS CP HLM, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150
PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia  http://www.tomw.net.au
Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science, The
Australian National University http://cs.anu.edu.au/courses/COMP7310/
Visiting Scientist, CSIRO ICT Centre: http://bit.ly/csiro_ict_canberra