The International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) kicks off its 2018 webinar series with an in-depth look at the opportunities and potential changes in the world of scholarly communication that may be stimulated by Blockchain. The session is scheduled for April 12, 10:00-11:30 am EDT.
Panelists Joris van Rossum (Digital Science), Sönke Bartling (Blockchain for Science), and Lambert Heller (Open Science Lab at TIB) will address the topic from three different perspectives. The Copyright Clearance Center will host this free and open-to-all webinar. For all webinar registrants, access to the recording of the live event will be emailed within 2 business days. Webinar presentation slides and Q&A will be posted to the ICSTI Website following the live webinar.
Joris van Rossum is a publishing consultant and entrepreneur with a long background in STM Publishing. Currently he is the director of Special Projects at Digital Science. Joris recently wrote a research report for Digital Science Inc, investigating the new possibilities of Blockchain. He will summarise the report and will sketch his own views on the ways Blockchain could be a game changer in the eco-system of scholarly publishing. Or will it turn out to be no more than a hype?
Sönke Bartling is the founder of Blockchain For Science and associated researcher at the Humbold institute for internet and society. His focus is the blockchain revolution and what it could mean for science and knowledge creation. In general he is interested in developing and describing novel online tools and concepts for knowledge creation. Besides, he is a board certified radiologist with a broad clinical experience and a researcher in basic medical imaging sciences. He co-edited the living book http://www.openingscience.org/.
Lambert Heller, with a background in social sciences, is an academic librarian by training. He founded the Open Science Lab at TIB (the German National Library of Science and Technology) in 2013. He is running a number of grant projects with his group, some of them with partners from the "Leibniz Research Alliance Science 2.0". A lot of the TIB Open Science Labs efforts is about Linked-Data-based research information systems (VIVO), as well as communicating/cultivating what 'Open Science' is all about. In the webinar, he gives an overview on how and why scholarly objects as well as transactional metadata can and should be taken care of by using P2P systems.
Interested parties may visit http://www.cvent.com/events/icsti-webinar-blockchain-for-science/event-summary-801e705c3c26422ab1b20df210c5bf23.aspx for more details and registration details.
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