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Talk by Dr Catherine Ahearn of MIT Press/MIT Media Lab :
"Future of Knowledge and Publishing"

We are happy to announce that Dr Catherine Ahearn, MIT Press, will give a talk at NII on December 19th. You are most welcome to join us. See her abstract below.

12月19日15時から、MIT PressのDr Catherine AhearnがMIT Media Labと一緒に行っているイニシアティブに関してご講演いただきます。学術成果の発信、レビュー、検証などの新しいエコシステムをオープンに構築するプロジェクトに関する発表です。ご関心のある方は是非ご参加ください。

Title:

The Future of Knowledge and Publishing: A View from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Speaker:

Dr Catherine Ahearn of MIT Press/MIT Media Lab

Time/Date:

December 19th 15:00-16:30

Venue:

Room 1903, 19th Floor, NII

Abstract:

In order for university-based scholarly publishers to flourish into the future, it is imperative that they establish our own innovation pathways. Toward this end, the MIT Knowledge Futures Group (KFG), a new joint initiative of the MIT Press and the MIT Media Lab, seeks to transform research publishing from a closed, sequential process, into an open, community-driven one. Catherine Ahearn, Senior Project Editor at the KFG, will discuss the vision and mission of the Group, focusing on areas for potential partnerships with the NII, such as fostering international collaboration between researchers and students and the open dissemination of research results, and the development of an open knowledge graph. The KFG incubates and deploys open source technologies to support both rapid, open dissemination and a shared ecosystem for information review, provenance, and verification. Ahearn will demo PubPub, an open access, open-source community publishing platform currently in development at the KFG, with particular focus on its use for conferences, journals, and knowledge verification. There will then be a 20-30-minute period for questions and discussion. You can submit questions ahead of time and see Ahearn's slides by joining this document.

Link

The Future of Knowledge and Publishing: A View from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Contact:

Jun Adachi
adachi [at] nii.ac.jp

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