| Dear all The Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme in collaboration with OpenUCT and the UCT Research Office invite you to a seminar and discussion with Cameron Neylon, a senior researcher and leading global expert in understanding the technologically-driven changes taking place in the 21st-century research environment. Exploiting the information deluge: The role of institutions, researchers and communities in web-enabled scholarship It is easy to assert that 'the web changes everything'. It threatens traditional approaches and power relations in scholarship but also offers new opportunities for effective scholarly communication, exploitation of research, and engagement. How does a modern institution position itself to take advantage of the opportunities, while retaining its core values? In a world of distributed information, and increasingly distributed relationships, how can the institution most effectively continue to play a role in coordination and quality assurance? Neylon will argue that an institution with a clearly articulated and shared mission and a strong tradition of independent scholarship is well placed to make the most of the opportunities the web presents. While deep conceptual changes are needed to fully exploit the opportunities these changes align with traditional scholarly values of openness, transparency and academic freedom. Date: Thursday 8 December Cameron Neylon is a biophysicist who has always worked in interdisciplinary areas and is an advocate of open research practice and improved data management. He currently works as Senior Scientist in Biomolecular Sciences at the ISIS Neutron Scattering facility at the UK's Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). Along with his work in structural biology and biophysics his research and writing focuses on the interface of web technology with science and the successful (and unsuccessful) application of generic and specially designed tools in the academic research environment. He is a co-author of the Panton Principles for Open Data in Science, founding Editor in Chief of Open Research Computation, and writes regularly on the social, technical, and policy issues of open research. He currently serves on the Advisory Panel and is a Special Consultant to the Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme. This is an open event. Please pass the invitation on. - - - ### UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN This e-mail is subject to the UCT ICT policies and e-mail disclaimer published on our website at http://www.uct.ac.za/about/policies/emaildisclaimer/ or obtainable from +27 21 650 9111. This e-mail is intended only for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. If the e-mail has reached you in error, please notify the author. If you are not the intended recipient of the e-mail you may not use, disclose, copy, redirect or print the content. If this e-mail is not related to the business of UCT it is sent by the sender in the sender's individual capacity. ### |
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