Re: Web 2.0 and Scholarly Communication

[Ted Freeman <tfreeman@allenpress.com>]

For those who are interested in Web 2.0 and scholarly 
communication, see the program below for the 2007 Allen Press 
Emerging Tends seminar on April 12 at the National Press Club in 
Washington D.C.

The 2007 Allen Press Emerging Trends in Scholarly PublishingTM 
Seminar All Together Now: Scholarly Communication and the Power 
of Online Communities

Keynote: Avoiding Mob Science: How to Use
Information Systems Without Bringing Out the Worst in Human Beings

Jaron Lanier, Interdisciplinary Scholar-in-Residence, Center for 
Entrepreneurship and Technology, University of California, 
Berkeley

Dr. Lanier is a computer scientist, composer, visual artist, and 
author who writes on numerous topics, including high-technology 
business, the social impact of technological practices, the 
philosophy of consciousness and information, Internet politics, 
and the future of humanism. He writes a regular column for 
Discover, and his writings have appeared in The New York Times, 
The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Harper's Magazine, The Sciences, 
Wired Magazine (where he is a founding contributing editor), 
Scientific American, The Huffington Post, and Edge. He has 
appeared on TV shows such as The News Hour, Nightline, and 
Charlie Rose, and has been profiled on the front pages of The 
Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. His 2006 Edge essay 
"Digital Maosim," in which he writes of the dangers of online 
collectives, or the Hive Mind, was cited by The New York Times 
Magazine in their Ideas in 2006 issue.

Session 1: With a Little Help From My Friends: Online Scholarship 
2.0

Web 2.0 is the buzzword underlying this session, referencing a 
number of web-based technologies that empower readers and 
researchers to interact with and create content as well as share 
and discuss it with each other. The speakers will examine 
specific web applications and services, explore virtual research 
communities and wiki cultures, and analyze evolving online 
research behavior.

Session 2: Here, There, and Everywhere: The Great Promise of 
Research Data Commons

Creating repositories for and opening access to digital research 
data is critical, the speakers in this session will argue, if the 
enormous potential for accelerating the advance of science and 
scholarship that comes from sharing and reusing data is to be 
realized. We will also learn to what extent open data 
repositories are being created and planned, look at a few in 
their early stages, and find out what legal, technological and 
other barriers are involved and what role scholarly publishers 
can play.

Session 3: We Can Work It Out: Peer Review, Dynamic Documents, 
and the Wisdom of Crowds

Peer review is the heart and soul of traditional scholarly 
publishing, conferring value and authority on published research. 
We all know that the logistics of peer review have been greatly 
improved with the advent of web-based tracking systems that 
facilitate the processing and distribution of digital manuscripts 
and the assignment and follow up of reviews.  But will the 
traditional nature of peer review - blind and restricted to only 
a few expert opinions - survive in the face of a Web 2.0 culture 
based on dynamic documents, transparency, and mass collaboration? 
Scholarly journal editors and an Internet technology expert will 
explore the issue.

Program Schedule

8:30 - 9:00 a.m.	Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00 - 10:30 a.m. 	Session 1: With a Little Help From My 
Friends: Online Scholarship 2.0

* Richard Akerman, Technology Architect and Information Systems 
Security Officer at CISTI
(Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information)
* Konrad Forstner, Bork Group, Structural and Computational 
Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory

* Josh Greenberg, Associate Director of Research Projects at the 
Center for History and New Media (CHNM) and co-director of Zotero

10:30 - 10:45 a.m.	BREAK

10:45 - 12:00 p.m.	Session 1 (cont.)

* Dean Giustini, Biomedical Branch Librarian, University of 
British Columbia
* Donald King, Research Professor, School of Information 
Sciences, University of Pittsburgh

12:00 - 1:00 p.m. 	LUNCH

1:00 - 1:45 p.m. 	Keynote: Avoiding Mob Science: How to Use 
Information Systems Without Bringing Out the Worst in Human 
Beings

Jaron Lanier, Interdisciplinary Scholar-in-Residence, Center for 
Entrepreneurship and Technology, University of California, 
Berkeley

1:45 - 3:00 p.m.       Session 2: Here, There, and Everywhere: 
The Great Promise of Research Data Commons

Moderator: Jim Reichman, Director of the National Center for 
Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
* John Wilbanks, Executive Director, Science Commons
* Steve Bryant, Director, PubChem, National Institutes of Health
* Robert Peet, Professor of Ecology, UNC at Chapel Hill

3:00 - 3:15 p.m. 	BREAK

3:15 - 4:30 p.m. 	Session 3: We Can Work it Out: Peer 
Review, Dynamic Documents, and the Wisdom of Crowds

Moderator:  Irv Rockwood, Editor and Publisher, Choice
* Jaron Lanier, Interdisciplinary Scholar-in-Residence, Center 
for Entrepreneurship and Technology, University of California, 
Berkeley
* Chris Surridge, Editor, PLoS One
* David Baldwin, Managing Editor, Ecological Society of America

Register at http://seminar.allenpress.com

Ted Freeman
Allen Press, Inc.