Documents/F11

About Force 11

Strategic_Plan

Publication: 2013-05-08

Source: http://www.force11.org/about

Research and scholarship lead to the generation of new knowledge. The dissemination of this knowledge has a fundamental impact on the ways in which society develops and progresses; and at the same time, it feeds back to improve subsequent research and scholarship. Here, as in so many other areas of human activity, the Internet is changing the way things work: it opens up opportunities for new processes that can accelerate the growth of knowledge, including the creation of new means of communicating that knowledge among researchers and within the wider community. Two decades of emergent and increasingly pervasive information technology have demonstrated the potential for far more effective scholarly communication. However, the use of this technology remains limited; research processes and the dissemination of research results have yet to fully assimilate the capabilities of the Web and other digital media. Producers and consumers remain wedded to formats developed in the era of print publication, and the reward systems for researchers remain tied to those delivery mechanisms.

While not disputing the expressive power of the written word to communicate complex ideas, our foundational assumption is that scholarly communication by means of semantically enhanced media-rich digital publishing is likely to have a greater impact than communication in traditional print media or electronic facsimiles of printed works. However, to date, online versions of ‘scholarly outputs' have tended to replicate print forms, rather than exploit the additional functionalities afforded by the digital terrain. We believe that digital publishing of enhanced papers will enable more effective scholarly communication, which will also broaden to include, for example, the publication of software tools, and research communication by means of social media channels. We see Force11 as a starting point for a community that we hope will grow and be augmented by individual and collective efforts by the participants and others. We invite you to join and contribute to this enterprise.

Submitter:

Name:Owen Ambur

Email:Owen.Ambur@verizon.net

Organization:

Name:Force 11

Acronym:F11

Description:
Force11 is a community of scholars, librarians, archivists, publishers and research funders that has arisen organically to help facilitate the change toward improved knowledge creation and sharing. Individually and collectively, we aim to bring about a change in modern scholarly communications through the effective use of information technology. Force11 has grown from a small group of like-minded individuals into an open movement with clearly identified stakeholders associated with emerging technologies, policies, funding mechanisms and business models.

Stakeholder(s):

  • Scholars

  • Librarians

  • Archivists

  • Publishers

  • Research Funders

  • Maryann Martone: Executive Director

  • Force11 Executive Committee

  • Philip Bourne

  • Tim Clark

  • Paul Groth

  • Ivan Herman

  • Eduard Hovy

  • Cameron Neylon

  • Daniel O'Donnell

  • Anita de Waard

  • Force 11 Steering Committee

  • Judith Blake

  • Leslie Chan

  • Laura Czerniewicz

  • Robert Dale

  • David De Roure

  • Carole Goble

  • Michael Kurtz

  • Mark Patterson

  • David Rosenthal

  • David Shotton

  • Todd Vision

  • Herbert van de Sompel

  • John Wilbanks

Content
Visions
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Values
1: Force11 Manifesto