A Vision for Open Cyber-Scholarly Infrastructures

Abstract

The characteristics of modern science, i.e., data-intensive, multidisciplinary, open, and heavily dependent on Internet technologies, entail the creation of a linked scholarly record that is online and open. Instrumental in making this vision happen is the development of the next generation of Open Cyber-Scholarly Infrastructures (OCIs), i.e., enablers of an open, evolvable, and extensible scholarly ecosystem. The paper delineates the evolving scenario of the modern scholarly record and describes the functionality of future OCIs as well as the radical changes in scholarly practices including new reading, learning, and information-seeking practices enabled by OCIs.

Keywords

• scholarly record
• linked scholarly record
• semantic publishing
• enhanced publication
• linked data
• scientific article models
• information exploration
• topic map
• reading practices
• learning practices
• information seeking