The new STM Tech Trends is being launched at the ongoing STM Annual US Conference in Washington DC. The theme of this year’s infographic look into the future of STM publishing is: The Floodgates of Technology are Open.
The Tech Trends 2020 emphasize how the growth in computer power will continue steadily over the coming decade. Computer power combined with big data and a wide variety of digital objects, will create huge new opportunities for information providers. Researchers are likely to share more in open science environments, from text to non- text such as data or multimedia, social collaboration networks will spark new information relationships and publishers can deliver more targeted precision information to users via dynamic publishing.
At the STM conference in Washington, the new version of Tech Trends was presented by Eefke Smit, STM Director of Standards and Technology, and a panel of five publishing representatives from Brill, IEEE, Proquest and Digital Science, moderated by Christopher Kenneally of CCC who gave their views on what these Tech Trends may imply for their businesses and scholarly communication in general.
The discussion was fuelled by catch phrases such as: Artificial Intelligence meets Big Data, The Machine is the New Reader, Science as a Social Machine and Data Privacy requires a Web of Trust.
A visualized version of the STM Tech Trends 2020 can be downloaded here: http://www.stm-assoc.org/standards-technology/resources/tech-trends-2020.
Every year, the ‘STM Future Group’ a group of publishing and technology experts within academic publishing create these Tech Trends. Versions published in 2013, 2014 and 2015 are also available on the STM website.
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