Social infrastructures in research communication: A personal view of the FORCE11 story

There are a wide range of community organizations and projects that aim to support scholarly communications in one way or another. Scholarly societies are some of the longest standing and, as research communication has changed, new groups, organizations and projects appear – to solve problems and fi...

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Main Author: Neylon, Cameron
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/67101
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description There are a wide range of community organizations and projects that aim to support scholarly communications in one way or another. Scholarly societies are some of the longest standing and, as research communication has changed, new groups, organizations and projects appear – to solve problems and fill gaps. Amongst these organizations, FORCE11 has acted as a nucleus, support platform and convening point for community efforts on issues as wide-ranging as identifiers for research materials, implementing data and software citation systems, and on what we might mean when we talk about building a ‘scholarly commons’. I have personally been involved in FORCE11, attending the meetings that led to its formation, as a founding board member of the formal organization and, most recently, serving as President of the Board up until the end of 2017. In this article I give an entirely personal view, drawing on my perspective of those experiences and what it can do to illuminate the roles and interactions of the many organizations seeking to support change in research communications.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-671012018-08-29T06:15:06Z Social infrastructures in research communication: A personal view of the FORCE11 story Neylon, Cameron There are a wide range of community organizations and projects that aim to support scholarly communications in one way or another. Scholarly societies are some of the longest standing and, as research communication has changed, new groups, organizations and projects appear – to solve problems and fill gaps. Amongst these organizations, FORCE11 has acted as a nucleus, support platform and convening point for community efforts on issues as wide-ranging as identifiers for research materials, implementing data and software citation systems, and on what we might mean when we talk about building a ‘scholarly commons’. I have personally been involved in FORCE11, attending the meetings that led to its formation, as a founding board member of the formal organization and, most recently, serving as President of the Board up until the end of 2017. In this article I give an entirely personal view, drawing on my perspective of those experiences and what it can do to illuminate the roles and interactions of the many organizations seeking to support change in research communications. 2018 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/67101 10.1629/uksg.404 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ fulltext
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Social infrastructures in research communication: A personal view of the FORCE11 story
title Social infrastructures in research communication: A personal view of the FORCE11 story
title_full Social infrastructures in research communication: A personal view of the FORCE11 story
title_fullStr Social infrastructures in research communication: A personal view of the FORCE11 story
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title_short Social infrastructures in research communication: A personal view of the FORCE11 story
title_sort social infrastructures in research communication: a personal view of the force11 story
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/67101