I recently read about a new research report, Mind the Gap, by a team with lead author John Maxwell, about some initiatives in open-source software. It made me ponder how to appraise and to evaluate new software tools.
This year’s SSP Annual Event included …
Some articles are not really about AI at all; this is one of them. David Beer, Professor of Sociology at the University of York, has written a post with the above title (actually a question in the original). But of course, such a title is …
Preprint servers, of which the best known is arXiv (most of the preprint servers attempt some fancy combination of lower- and upper-case letters in their title), are increasingly used and are attracting increasing attention. They appear to fit …
How do you measure the success of a scholarly article? Many writers disagree that citations should be the only measurement, for example, Bornmann 2017, even if at present the number of citations is the agreed independent metric for scholarly research.
A fascinating article by …
There has always been an outer reach of computing, often where it drifts into science fiction. Clearly, this occupies many people’s imaginations, although perhaps, less so the minds of computing professionals. Surely, on the principle that any publicity is good publicity, this …
Not a day passes without someone suggesting a way to reduce the inefficiency of the scholarly publication cycle. There is an interesting article in Scholarly Kitchen by Tim Vines, about Michael Eisen, the new Editor-in-Chief of eLife, suggesting ideas for the future of Peer Review. …
The biannual ISKO-UK conference held this year at City University, London, should be a good opportunity to assess the state of things in knowledge management. Of course, it’s not possible to summarise all the sessions, nor would I want to. Instead, I hope …
What advice would you give people starting a job in publishing? What gets people thinking about their careers? I was invited to participate in a panel for a major publisher, organised to present ideas about careers for their …
This week I was at the Healtac 2019 conference …
This year’s annual European Conference on Information Retrieval (Cologne, April 2019) was remarkable for me in that it showed a dramatic renaissance of the world of search. Conferences labelled “enterprise search” have been running down or closing in the UK and the US for several …
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