COAR » Open Access Vision Statements

abernard102@gmail.com 2013-02-19

Summary:

“'Interpretive flexibility” is the term that sociologists use to describe the human capacity to adapt the tools that they are offered to achieve the ends that they desire. The Web, for example, was designed as a technology for exchanging information, but it has come to be used as a means to share social experiences. Similarly, repositories were designed to extend the Web’s support for the long-term accessibility of scholarly information, but now we are starting to see them being used to support scientific data gathering, data analysis, and the management and evaluation of the research process itself. As research challenges drive research institutions to become less siloed and more interdisciplinary, I predict that in the in the future we will see research institutions being reconstituted around the social sharing of knowledge and the hubs of their knowledge generating practices: their repositories."

Link:

http://www.coar-repositories.org/working-groups/repository-observatory/open-access-vision-statements/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.data oa.comment oa.green oa.coar oa.tools oa.repositories.data oa.data.analysis oa.or oa.rdm oa.repositories

Date tagged:

02/19/2013, 16:35

Date published:

02/19/2013, 11:35