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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">(Sorry in advance for the self-promotion)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Just to let you know about a new post on the OpenAIRE blog that might be of interest to list members:
<a href="https://blogs.openaire.eu/?p=979">“Infrastructure is Invisible / Infrastructure is Law”</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">TL;DR: <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:white">As both Geoffrey Bilder and Martin Heidegger tell us, infrastructure is usually invisible and we only notice it when something goes wrong. This is
profoundly problematic for scholarly communications, since infrastructure is also law – it shapes thoughts and actions. Luckily, moments of breakdown (like the SSRN sell-off) help illuminate problems with the system and call on us to change what is broken.<o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Excerpt: “<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:white">moments of breakdown can be illuminative. Casting off the fog of the everyday, they allow us to see our tools anew and to appreciate how integral
they are to our lives.</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#333333;background:white"> </span></span><span style="color:#333333;background:white">They can also be cathartic occasions for reappraisal, for rethinking the nature
of this invisible infrastructure in which we usually unthinkingly invest our trust. We must seize such moments constructively. The “blue screen of death,” for example, is a reminder to practice good research data management in the future (and maybe think about
switching to LINUX or Apple).<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">SSRN’s sell-off, as I’ve said</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b> </b></span><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="https://blogs.openaire.eu/?p=933">elsewhere</a>,
is an opportunity to reassess the role of such platforms in the research endeavor and to discuss anew the kinds of governance safeguards we should demand from them. Such reflection is crucial, because although it is boring or often invisible, infrastructure
pays a constitutive role in scientific discourse, which is to say: infrastructure is law.”</span></strong></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks, Tony<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE">Dr. Tony Ross-Hellauer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:4.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE"><a href="https://www.openaire.eu/"><span style="color:blue">OpenAIRE</span></a> Scientific Manager<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE">University of Göttingen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Email:
<a href="mailto:ross-hellauer@sub.uni-goettingen.de"><span style="color:blue">ross-hellauer@sub.uni-goettingen.de</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Tel: +49 551 39-31818</span><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Twitter:
<a href="https://twitter.com/tonyR_H"><span style="color:blue">@tonyR_H</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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