Advancing the State of EChemistry: Planning an International Symposium

网络通信的日益普及以及Web 2.0的社交网络工具所带来的万维网的变化正在彻底改变学者们协作和共享信息的方式。 然而，接受和使用这些新的工具，从根本上不同的科学学科。 该项目将启动一个国际研讨会的规划，以推进一系列非常独特和有前途的关于这些问题的研究讨论，这些讨论始于2008年10月在华盛顿举行的题为“化学学术交流新模式”的讲习班（http：//hdl.tag.net/1813/14150）。 设想的国际研讨会将解决与学术交流实践和新兴技术相关的复杂问题，以及如何创建、管理和使用基于网络的知识内容来提高研究生产力。 一个目标是确定这些过程的相互依赖性和有益干预的要点。 为了开始专题讨论会的规划进程，该奖项将支持成立一个小型国际指导委员会，以制定更大专题讨论会的议程，并确定必要的参与者和潜在的财政支助来源。 在规划过程的各个阶段，将积极征求社区的意见。

The increasing ubiquity of network communication and the changes in the World Wide Web due to the social networking tools of Web 2.0 are revolutionizing the way that scholars collaborate and share information. However, the receptivity to and use of these new tools differs radically among the various scientific disciplines. This project will initiate planning for an international symposium to advance a very unique and promising set of research discussions on these issues begun in a workshop titled "New Models for Scholarly Communication in Chemistry", held in Washington DC in October 2008 (http://hdl.handle.net/1813/14150). The international symposium envisioned will address complex issues associated with academic scholarly communication practices and emergent technologies and the ways in which web-based intellectual content is created, managed and used to advance research productivity. A goal will be to determine the interdependence of these processes and points of beneficial intervention. To begin the planning process for the symposium, this award will support the formation of a small international steering committee to develop the agenda for the larger symposium and identify necessary participants and potential sources of financial support. Community input will be actively solicited in all stages of the planning process.