<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body><div>Peter,</div><div><br></div><div>Just to touch upon this very quickly, in my talk, I used the metaphor of a town. Towns relate to other towns basically in two ways. First, geographical proximity; second economic complementarity. Transposing these two variables onto the communication system, this yields the following possibilities:</div><div><br></div><div>1. Intellectual proximity works in ways that relate to disciplinary or specialty domains. In many ways, this is also what many journals do as well: they bundle articles that relate to each other (more or less) by virtue of being in the same domain.</div><div><br></div><div>2. Intellectual complementarity works in the ways that inter-disciplinary teams generally work. Another way of putting it is to refer to the "Mode 2 of scientific production" that was proposed (back in 1994) by Michael Gibbons and his colleagues in a collective book called <i>The New Production of Knowledge</i>. What is presented as "new" really means an inter-disciplinary approach focused on a complex problem.</div><div><br></div><div>Both 1 and 2 open the possibility of tackling new or neglected scientific problems, provided an adequate reward system is built around repositories. This is probably the major challenge to overcome, given the present (and silly) obsession with impact factors. To address this issue, I suggested first to downplay the role of metrics, and then to base evaluation (rewards) on at least three variables:<b> scientific significance</b> (particularly theoretical significance) which should be expressed in words, not numbers; <b>relevance to specific problems and their solutions</b> (e.g. Zika is known since the '40s, but was little studied because journals did not see a potential for many citations in such a research problem); reach (how do these questions reverberate in a wider public and can be of help to it).</div><div><br></div><div>I hope this is a little helpful.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Jean-Claude</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Le mardi 22 mai 2018 à 12:47 -0400, Kathleen Shearer a écrit :</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>Well I’m sure Jean Claude could do a much better job in explaining than I, but the idea is to build into a distributed system a way to support solving problems and intellectual dialogue and exchange on specific domains, fields of studies and problems. Journals bring together content that is related. We also want to do this but in a distributed, global repository network that is currently very multidisiplinary.</div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 12:19 PM Peter Murray-Rust <<a href="mailto:pm286@cam.ac.uk">pm286@cam.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div><div>Replying only to GOAL... <br><br></div>Thank you very much for this report.<br></div><br></div>One question:<br><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"></div></div></div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 5:05 PM, Kathleen Shearer <span><<a href="mailto:m.kathleen.shearer@gmail.com" target="_blank">m.kathleen.shearer@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jean-Claude Gu</span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:14.666666984558105px;white-space:pre-wrap">é</span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">don, Professor at the Université de Montreal and respected open access advocate, urged us to consider two important principles within our repository network: intellectual proximity and problem solving complementarity. </span><br></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div></div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Could you please expand on these as I don't understand what they mean in detail.<br></div><div>Thanks<br><br></div><div>P.<br></div></div></div></div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><br><pre>_______________________________________________
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