1: Unit & Form
Rethink the unit and form of the scholarly publication Other Information:
Existing formats needlessly limit, inhibit and undermine effective knowledge transfer -- Scholarly communications are, at
this mid-point in the digital revolution, in an ill-defined transitional state — a ‘horseless carriage' state — that lies
somewhere between the world of print and paper and the world of the web and computers, with the former still exercising significantly
more influence than the latter. However, the recent development of new media and communicative possibilities using information
technology, and the need to communicate and comprehend increasing amounts of additional information such as numerical and
multimedia data, make the traditional forms inadequate. Continued reliance on paper documents and their electronic shadows
make it very difficult or impossible to incorporate massive amounts of data, moving images or software; there is simply no
natural way to associate such ancillary information ‘into' the traditional publication. Additionally, any software-based text
mining or information extraction procedures require that paper-based information first be converted into machine-tractable
form and made freely available for such mining.
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