[…] of all three varieties, I’d say. PLoS and similar offerings could be fairly characterized as immediate low-end encroachment; reference services, workflow solutions, and similar information offerings bring detached-market low-end encroachment; and RSS feeds, search engines, and Wikipedia offer fringe-market low-end […]
[…] chotda via Flickr Of all the plays in Web 2. 0 space, the one with what appears to be real workflow utility has been the notion of publisher linking networks like Connotea and 2Collab. They promised to make it easier […]
[…] broken up. I mean, social search may be worth it just for the pathos! I can see something with Aardvark’s workflow functioning especially well in the mobile space, when you just want to file the query, and waiting for a […]
[…] The real story would be information, software, and solutions. “We needed to focus our business . . . [on] activity-based workflows and the content and tools that could drive that.” Andy Lack’s experiences at Bloomberg were quite different. Andy described […]
[…] of the time spent conducting research and writing papers). Which is to say that the value to an institution of workflow applications powered by semantic and mobile technologies and interoperable linked data sets may exceed that of scientific journals. If […]
[…] is another matter. We live in the age when people expect news to find them, so putting it into their workflows and daily experiences is different than it was when a small set of packages (newspaper, news programs) were where […]
[…] in the UK (that’s a phone company, by the way). Today’s digital natives have integrated technology into their lives and workflows, and expanded their surface of engagement with content. Their comfort with wireless, connected, and interactive devices is going to […]
[…] if people feel comfortable sharing who they are, they will also feel comfortable sharing their ideas about products, content, and workflows. Our industry is one of ideas — sharing them, debating them, and refining them together as a community. To […]
[…] organizational affiliation checks, publication history as a trust marker — these are reasonable tools for catching fraudulent work flooding editorial workflows at industrial scale. But each of these tools carries an assumption about what a legitimate researcher looks like, and […]
[…] keeps many on there, even if payoff isn’t high. Likewise, if posting on X is just another button in your workflow, the barrier to staying is lower. On the flip side, a high level of effort — and a sense […]
[…] model is fairly described as a no-risk opt-in. Its virtue is that it demands almost no change to existing subscriber workflows. Its limitation is that neither authors nor their institutions have agency over whether any particular article ends up open, […]
[…] to think of AI as another set of tools and ideas that authors, publishers, and readers are incorporating into their workflows, but it does not define us. It takes time to write a book, curate content, produce a book, and […]
[…] that the majority of metadata gaps are pipeline problems, not content problems. The information often exists somewhere in the publishing workflow — ORCID iDs, affiliations, and some contributor role information captured during article submission, along with limited funding data described […]
[…] commercial publisher, no matter how much freedom you’re given. Wiley gave me considerable latitude to experiment — to learn AI workflows, to think through the infrastructure problems, to follow threads wherever they led. That eventually led me to pitch this […]
[…] was for an identity solution!). And allllll the AI sessions talked about how to make our offerings match the evolving workflows of today’s real, actual users. It was refreshing — and likely overdue — and I hope it’s just the […]