The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers' (STM) hosted two interesting and thought provoking seminars, STM – Innovations and STM – E-Production, in London last week.
On December 4, 2013, the STM – Innovations seminar kicked off with an opening Keynote from Gerry Grenier – IEEE and chair of the STM Future Lab Committee. Gerry welcomed everyone to a very interesting day on Data focussed around the Research data revolution. Sayeed Choudhury, Assistant Dean for Research Data Management, John Hopkins University, provided some thought provoking concepts and suggested that perhaps data is the new oil and that we should think about content being more about Data. The sessions that followed provided an insight into some future concepts for how we should view content and data including a truly inspired session from Chris Lintott from the University of Oxford who talked about the Zooniverse, a project for worldwide collaboration on Science projects.
The STM – E-Production seminar was held on December 5th. The day's session focussed around Content Enrichment - When does it happen, what needs to happen and how it gets done. The event featured some interesting sessions from Evan Owens from AIP; Kaveh Bazargan from River Valley Technologies; and Bill McCoy from International Digital Publishing Forum, who talked about Epub3 and HTML5. The presentations in the morning panel session centered around "What's new in Content Enrichment" from Access Innovations, Elsevier Clinical Key, Oxford University Press, TEMIS and Silverchair. The afternoon sessions focussed on improving access to STM Publications featuring Cambridge University Press, JISC TechDis and International Digital Publishing Forum. The day concluded with a session from Cambridge University Press and Apex CoVantage discussing the Pioneers Dilemma around rethinking and retooling at the University Press.
