Linked Research write up Was: TheWebConf 2018 Trip Report

I wrote up my own subjective perspective on the Linked Research track
popping in as many photos I could from the pro Tweeters such
as Prof Dame Wendy Hall and others who attended.

http://bblfish.net/blog/2018/04/21/workshop.html

Henry

> On 30 Apr 2018, at 23:29, Sarven Capadisli <info@csarven.ca> wrote:
> 
> 
> Researcher Centric Scholarly Communication was.. awesome of course (yes,
> I'm entitled to say that):
> 
> https://linkedresearch.org/events/the-web-conf-2018/ <https://linkedresearch.org/events/the-web-conf-2018/>
> 
> Minutes of the event is here:
> 
> https://linkedresearch.org/events/the-web-conf-2018/summary <https://linkedresearch.org/events/the-web-conf-2018/summary>
> 
> Thanks to Amy Guy for out-of-this world scribing skillz (level 11).
> 
> Our tiny little workshop - half a day, about 30 attendees - documented
> and archived and everything. It was great to see Dame Wendy Hall's
> positive vibe carry the whole workshop. Many great folks like her have
> been hacking at this problem (from many fronts) for like three decades.
> 
> The event brought folks from different backgrounds. That was unplanned
> and exciting. So, it wasn't just (Semantic) Web fanatics. More like
> people interested in Open Science, decentralisation, interop. So,
> blockchainers, dat-protocolers, recommendation systemers, annotators,
> people wanting to improve data reuse, psychologists, philosophers, and
> the old skool, the inventor of the Web... was on board.
> 
> TimBL found out that the conference pays for Easychair. oh oh oops. He
> said some stuff that I'm not going to type here, but essentially: drop
> Easychair, and asked the community to build something like it with
> Solid. So back to ground-zero: self-publish/review/archive...,
> ActivityPub, LDN anyone? Get your personal storage/profiles/WebIDs polished!
> 
> Read the minutes!
> 
> Anyhew, looking forward to more LR stuff. Want to join forces? Say hello at:
> 
> https://gitter.im/linkedresearch/chat <https://gitter.im/linkedresearch/chat>