Research Object for Scholarly Communication Community Group created

W3C has launched the Research Object for Scholarly Communication Community Group:
  http://www.w3.org/community/rosc/

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Research investigations are increasingly collaborative and require
‘‘borrowing strength’’ from the outputs of other research.
Conventional digital publications are becoming less sufficient for the
scientists to access, share, communicate, and enable the reuse of
scientific outputs. The need to have a community-wide container data
model to encapsulate the actual research data and methods with all the
contextual information essential for interpreting and reusing them is
becoming more and more imperative, for the science, publisher, as well
as digital library communities.


A number of different community groups and projects are now creating
some form of container, bundling or aggregation mechanism (particularly
using ORE OAI), partially driven by the above goal. There is a clear
need and benefit to facilitate a consensus among these representations.
In the ROSC community group we aim to provide an open platform for
gathering and discussing current development of various container models
and their implementations. These data models should be driven by the
need of facilitating the reuse and exchange of the actual digital
knowledge and the inspection of the reproducibility of scientific
investigation results. They should consider not only the data used,
methods employed to produce and analyse that data, but also the people
involved in the investigation and annotations about these resources,
which are essential to the understanding and interpretation of the
scientific outcomes.


As outcomes from the community group we aim to facilitate the
establishment of  a community data model and a set of community
agreements that can effectively assist the establishment of a new form
of scholarly communication, that is a prominent issue of today.


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We invite you to join:
  http://www.w3.org/community/rosc/join

If you do not have one already, you will need a W3C account to join:
  http://www.w3.org/community/account/request

If you believe that there is an issue with this group that requires
the attention of the W3C staff, please send us email on
site-comments@w3.org

Thank you,
W3C Community Development Team

Received on Monday, 8 April 2013 15:22:08 UTC