Blockchain and STM — a marriage made in heaven? – PageMajik – Medium

ab1630's bookmarks 2018-04-28

Summary:

"Two weeks ago, in our blog post the AI Elephant in the room, we welcomed the fact that blockchain was to be discussed at the London Book Fair for the very first time. This week, as the crowds descend upon Philadelphia for the STM US Annual Conference, blockchain is once again on the menu, however, less as a starter and more as a main course. This is the second year running that the STM Association has featured the topic in its conference programme, and it follows a similar session at the APE Conference in January where it was also on the agenda. It perhaps comes as little surprise that the STM sector is somewhat ahead of the curve on conversations around blockchain innovation. Whether STM is riper for disruption, open to change, or just more in need of it remains to be seen, but over recent years, in spite of many bemoaning slow rates of change and adoption, we’ve witnessed a great deal of effort go into transformational technology in STM, specifically in areas like Open Access, discoverability, metrics and impact measurement, and peer review. So why is blockchain such a hot topic in STM right now? What kind of blockchain innovations can we expect to see? And how does the industry stand to gain from them?..."

Link:

https://medium.com/pagemajik/blockchain-and-stm-a-marriage-made-in-heaven-fecf077ea522

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oa.new oa.blockchain oa.data oa.stem oa.open_science oa.trends oa.quality oa.peer_review oa.code4oa oa.funding oa.funds oa.encouragement oa.crowd oa.publishing oa.scholcomm oa.artifacts oa.infrastructure

Date tagged:

04/28/2018, 11:28

Date published:

04/28/2018, 07:28