Abstract
The characteristics of modern science, i.e., data-intensive, multidisciplinary, open, and heavily dependent on Internet technologies, entail the creation of a linked scholarly record that is online and open. Instrumental in making this vision happen is the development of the next generation of Open Cyber-Scholarly Infrastructures (OCIs), i.e., enablers of an open, evolvable, and extensible scholarly ecosystem. The paper delineates the evolving scenario of the modern scholarly record and describes the functionality of future OCIs as well as the radical changes in scholarly practices including new reading, learning, and information-seeking practices enabled by OCIs.
Highlights
Modern science has undergone deep transformations due to recent advances in information technology, computer infrastructures, and the Internet as well as the development of new high-throughput scientific instruments, telescopes, satellites, accelerators, supercomputers, and sensor networks that are generating huge volumes of research data
Modern science is increasingly based on data-intensive computing; it tries to solve complex problems not within a discipline but across disciplines; and it is conducted by scientists at different locations at the same or different times by collapsing the barrier of distance and removing geographic location as an issue
The article will become a window for scientists and scholars, allowing them to actively understand a scientific result, and to reproduce it or extend it; it will act as an access point for, or interface to, any type of global networked resource
Summary
Modern science has undergone deep transformations due to recent advances in information technology, computer infrastructures, and the Internet as well as the development of new high-throughput scientific instruments, telescopes, satellites, accelerators, supercomputers, and sensor networks that are generating huge volumes of research data. Global scientific collaboration takes many forms, but from the various initiatives around the world a consensus is emerging that collaboration should aim to be “open” or at least should include a substantial measure of “open access” to the results of research activities This new science paradigm and a revolutionary process of digitization of information have created enormous pressure for radical changes in scholarly practices. Scholars need to be able to find the most authoritative, comprehensive, and up-to-date information about an important topic; to find an introduction to a topic that is organized by an expert; to conduct perspective analyses of scientific literature (for example, what arguments are there to refute this article?); to conduct a lineage analysis (for example, where did this idea come from?); etc They need to be able to navigate through an information-rich environment in order to discover useful knowledge from data, i.e., to extract high-level knowledge from low-level data in the context of huge volume datasets.
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