Berkman Center Events & Webcasts

Lee Dirks of Microsoft External Research will be speaking today on Transforming Scholarly Communication. This event is co-sponsored by Harvard Business School Knowledge and Library Services, Harvard Law School Library, and the Office for Scholarly Communication.

In the future, frontier research in many fields will increasingly require the collaboration of globally distributed groups of researchers needing access to distributed computing, data resources and support for remote access to expensive, multi-national specialized facilities such as telescopes and accelerators or specialist data archives… This talk will review the elements of this vision and explain the need for semantic-oriented computing by exploring eResearch projects that have successfully applied relevant technologies—and anticipated impact on scholarly communication as we know it today. It will also suggest that a software + service model with scientific services delivered from the cloud will become an increasingly accepted model for research.

via [Today] Transforming Scholarly Communication | Berkman Center.