time
Jens Vigen, European Centre for Nuclear Research, CERN, Switzerland
"Exchange of scientific theories and experimental results between human
beings have always taken place; initially carried by the oral tradition,
then in writing, so followed by print and now we are well into in the
digital era with all its opportunities, pitfalls and challenges. Scientific
exchange, on an advanced level, was originally restricted to a very limited
subset of the entire population. With the invention of the printing press,
this was gradually changed and made science available to the masses.
However, in some cases stiff pricing schemes are still restricting parts of
the scientific exchange to academics affiliated with wealthy institutions -
a situation that unfortunately also has been carried forward into the
digital age. Today, two decades after the invention of the World Wide Web,
there is no reason that not all scientific information shall not be
available to anybody interested. But ..., there is always a 'but'. Who shall
cover the costs? And the information that is freely accessible today might
be gone tomorrow, i.e. who shall ensure the curation of material stored in
scientific blogs and what is being exchanged through social media? We have
moved from a scheme with highly limited exchange to a world with a maximum
of exchange - always building on knowledge gained by the previous
generations; but to which extent will our current exchange be passed on to
future generations? The keynote will discuss which formal structures have to
be in place to ensure scientific exchange over time."
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