[Rdap] Fwd: [dataone] Upcoming Webinar: Cameron Neylon on Scholarly Communication

Stephanie Wright swright at uw.edu
Thu Mar 5 16:21:27 EST 2015


Apologies for cross-posting... forwarding on behalf of the DataONE
Community Engagement & Outreach Working Group.

Steph


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Dear Community

Please be reminded that registration is now open for the second event in
the DataONE Webinar Series (www.dataone.org/webinars).
"*Boyle’s Laws in a Networked World: How the future of science lies in
understanding our past" *will be presented by Dr Cameron Neylon from the
Public Library of Science.

Date: Tuesday March 10th 0900PT / 1200 ET.
Please register at www.dataone.org/upcoming-webinar

Best
Amber


*Abstract*
When we talk about scholarly communication, we are almost always talking of
the future. If we do look to the past it is to a canonical work. In the
sciences today, we begin almost every discussion of the scholarly
communications with the first edition of the Philosophical Transactions of
the Royal Society, published in 1665, before proceeding to move past this
and show that nothing (or everything) has changed. I will argue that if we
are to understand the origins of scholarly communication in the sciences we
need to look past the object to the community and the values that defined
it.

In the writings of Robert Boyle, we find guidance on the proper modes of
scientific conduct and communication that might appear in a graduate
training book today, but which are rarely realised in practice. Data
sharing, open criticism and open experimentation all form a core part of
the program of natural philosophy promoted by Boyle. If those values were
truly realised in the 1660s it was because the community was small,
exclusive and homogenous. Over the past 350 years those values were
weakened and lost as scaling issues made them impractical. Do the internet
and the web offer a solution to these problems? And if so, how can we
develop communities and infrastructures that combine the best of the values
of the early Royal Society with our more modern values of diversity,
inclusion and equality

-- 
Amber E Budden, PhD
Director for Community Engagement and Outreach
DataONE
University of New Mexico
1312 Basehart SE
Albuquerque, NM 87106

Tel: 505-814-1112
Cell: 505-205-7675
Fax: 505-246-6007





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Stephanie Wright
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