IST The new role of professional organisations in the management of scientific knowledge Žiga Turk, Bo-Christer Bjoerk, Bob Martens, Etial Petrinja presentation at CIB W79 conference, Aarhus, June IST September 15, 2015

CIB W78 – Aarhus 2002 endCIB W78sciX projectexamplesas-isintroduction What this talk is about? the SciX project what SciX can do for you what you can do for SciX introduction

CIB W78 – Aarhus 2002 endCIB W78sciX projectexamplesas-isintroduction Current situation do research write paper for free review for free edit journal for free give away the copy-right for free buy the results of the above (subscribe to journal) as-is

CIB W78 – Aarhus 2002 endCIB W78sciX projectexamplesas-isintroduction Who else is adding value publisher printing, subscriptions, distributionlibrary archiving catalogue builder (ICONDA, ISI) cataloguing, indexing, citation counting professional organisation handed the journal over to the publisher in the early 1900s endorses a journal as-is

CIB W78 – Aarhus 2002 endCIB W78sciX projectexamplesas-isintroduction Who is the user researchers as readers (?) who thought of it first (?) general public can they afford it (???) research evaluation administrations (!) as-is

CIB W78 – Aarhus 2002 endCIB W78sciX projectexamplesas-isintroductionResult inelastic market periodicals crisis fewer subscribers, costlier journals package deals University/country licenses readers have less control over subscriptions as-is

CIB W78 – Aarhus 2002 endCIB W78sciX projectexamplesas-isintroduction Exemplars of free models e-journals and archives Los Alamos CiteSeer Open Archives free software GNU/GPL Open Source Perl Artistic License free standards Internet RFCs examples

CIB W78 – Aarhus 2002 endCIB W78sciX projectexamplesas-isintroductionBaselines the ITcon journal (1996) electronic journal of IT in construction publication time 4-5 months readers per paper CUMINCAD (1999) cumulative index of CAD 4000 papers with abstracts 1000 with full texts 800+ registered users survey on e-publishing (2000) read electronic, publish on paper don’t care who reads W78’96 and W78’2000 web based organisation examples

CIB W78 – Aarhus 2002 endCIB W78sciX projectexamplesas-isintroduction SciX project IST , KAIII EU funding € person months Project duration Partners: 7 Deliverables: 20, all public and/or open source Web: SciX project

CIB W78 – Aarhus 2002 endCIB W78sciX projectexamplesas-isintroductionPartners academic Ljubljana Hanken Salford Viennae-business Indraprofessional IBRI, FGGI SciX project

CIB W78 – Aarhus 2002 endCIB W78sciX projectexamplesas-isintroduction Partners (cont.) SciX project

CIB W78 – Aarhus 2002 endCIB W78sciX projectexamplesas-isintroduction What are we doing process modelling of the as-is process suggestion of the to-be process study of the barriers to change system analysis and design interoperability information models standards compliance machine learning, clustering SciX project

CIB W78 – Aarhus 2002 endCIB W78sciX projectexamplesas-isintroduction Tangible results – demonstrators e-journal infrastructure preprints, PhD theses archive bibliographic index content wrapping as rentable infrastructure and/or open source code SciX project

CIB W78 – Aarhus 2002 endCIB W78sciX projectexamplesas-isintroduction Related work in construction informatics ontology of construction what is construction informatics what are the objects of study, how to structure the field automatic clustering/classification ICCI project – Dublin core Open archives standards Topic maps WSDL “semantic” web SciX project

CIB W78 – Aarhus 2002 endCIB W78sciX projectexamplesas-isintroduction Past role of CIB member organisations experts in these organisations names and addresses get them together from time to time, workshops, conferences distribute newsletters CIB W78

CIB W78 – Aarhus 2002 endCIB W78sciX projectexamplesas-isintroduction What has changed? today – people found on the Internet, groups established ad hoc easy to get people together, new tracks of conferences … the difference is in past track record prestige where is it? buried grey literature CIB W78

CIB W78 – Aarhus 2002 endCIB W78sciX projectexamplesas-isintroduction What SciX can do for W78 W78 digital archive … all proceedings in electronic form searchable friendly to general and specialised search engines CIB W78

CIB W78 – Aarhus 2002 endCIB W78sciX projectexamplesas-isintroduction What W78 can do to help provide content in digital format 50% of the costs is digitalisation (UMICH) 80% in the case of CUMINCAD fund digital archive how much? ECPPM 2002 … E100 per paper SciX should provide an answer (estimate E5-10 per paper) W78 bylaws free, electronic availability of papers support digital archive through conference fees unify format of the papers CIB W78

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