# FORCE11 Manifesto - Cover:: ![rw-book-cover](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article2.74d541386bbf.png) ## Metadata - Author:: [[FORCE11]] - Full Title:: FORCE11 Manifesto - Category:: #articles - Date:: 2023-02-06 - Source:: reader - Document Tags:: [[force]] [[researchcommunications]] - URL:: https://force11.org/info/force11-manifesto/ ## Highlights - Two decades of emergent and increasingly pervasive information technology have demonstrated the potential for far more effective scholarly communication. However, the use of this technology remains limited; research processes and the dissemination of research results have yet to fully assimilate the capabilities of the web and other digital media. Producers and consumers remain wedded to formats developed in the era of print publication, and the reward systems for researchers remain tied to those delivery mechanisms. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01g74bkdp5gpsa8kctgmbyjkv9)) ^rw341201088 - Note: Closed access journals, PDFs, and incentive structures - Force11 (the Future of Research Communication and e-Scholarship) is a community of scholars, librarians, archivists, publishers and research funders that has arisen organically to help facilitate the change toward improved knowledge creation and sharing. Individually and collectively, we aim to bring about a change in scholarly communication through the effective use of information technology ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01g74bgg9wbm1a6g5w3r3bknvf)) ^rw341200903 - While not disputing the expressive power of the written word to communicate complex ideas, our foundational assumption is that scholarly communication by means of semantically-enhanced media-rich digital publishing is likely to have a greater impact than communication in traditional print media or electronic facsimiles of printed works. However, to date, online versions of ‘scholarly outputs’ have tended to replicate print forms, rather than exploit the additional functionalities afforded by the digital terrain. We believe that digital publishing of enhanced papers will enable more effective scholarly communication, which will also broaden to include, for example, better links to data, the publication of software tools, mathematical models, protocols and workflows, and research communication by means of social media channels. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01g74bp3sfp07ezzbbx9ewwgpd)) ^rw341201160 - Note: Semantics, linked data, multimedia. Replicating print. - This document highlights the findings of the Force11 workshop on the Future of Research Communication and e-Scholarship held at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, in August 2011: it summarizes a number of key problems facing scholarly publishing today, and presents a vision that addresses these problems, proposing concrete steps that key stakeholders can take to improve the state of scholarly publishing. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01g74bs1ktcj42mv8hsxkaqspz)) ^rw341201873 - Modern technologies enable vastly improved knowledge transfer and far wider impact. Freed from the restrictions of paper, numerous advantages appear. Communication becomes instantaneous across geographic boundaries. Terms in electronic documents may be automatically disambiguated and semantically defined by linking to standard terminology repositories, allowing more accurate retrieval in searches; complex entities mentioned in documents may be automatically expanded to show diagrams or pictures that facilitate understanding; citations to other documents may be enhanced by summaries generated automatically from the cited documents. Documents may be automatically clustered with others that are similar, showing their relationship to others within their scholarly context, and their place in the ongoing evolution of ideas. Ancillary material that augments the text of the scholarly work may be linked to or distributed with the work; this may include numerical data (from experiments), images and videos (showing procedures or scenarios), sound recordings, presentational materials, and other elements in forms of media still on the horizon. Extracts and discussions of scholarly work on social media such as blogs, online discussion groups and Twitter may greatly broaden the visibility of a work and enable it to be better evaluated and cross-linked to other information sources. A broad range of recent technological advances provide increasingly diverse and powerful opportunities for more effective scholarly communication; we need to grasp the opportunities and make these possibilities realities. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01g74e6dknmvx1ggxg0drcm0zx)) ^rw341213016 - Note: Memex - We see a future in which scientific information and scholarly communication more generally become part of a global, universal and explicit network of knowledge; where every claim, hypothesis, argument—every significant element of the discourse—can be explicitly represented, along with supporting data, software, workflows, multimedia, external commentary, and information about provenance. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01g74en56acbhjrew1kz6273vm)) ^rw341214587 - In this world of networked knowledge objects, it would be clear how the entities and discourse components are related to each other, including relationships to previous scholarship; learning about a new topic means absorbing networks of information, not individually reading thousands of documents. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01g74fde1xprswfkesxw97mg3t)) ^rw341216708 - Note: this seems kind of wrong "it would be clear" -- thinking of "the social graph is neither" and also "as if better wiring would eliminate the ghosts" - This vision moves away from the Gutenberg paper-centric model of the scholarly literature, towards a more distributed network-centric model; it is a model far better suited for making knowledge-level claims and supporting digital services, including more effective tracking and interrogation of what is known, not known, or contested. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01g74fsjpxxtatdh6736ybne2s)) ^rw341218157 - We need to acknowledge the fact that notions such as journal impact factor are poor surrogates for measuring the true impact of scholarship, and are increasingly irrelevant in a world of disaggregated knowledge units of vastly varying granularity; and we need to derive new mechanisms that allow us more accurately to measure true contributions to the ongoing enterprise of augmenting the world’s store of knowledge. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01g75mq1crmzqqw4zt37m2gs7e)) ^rw341572799 - The business models that are currently driving scholarly publishing, which rest mainly on libraries buying access rights to digital journals from publishers, are clearly no longer adequate to support the rich, variegated, integrated and disparate knowledge offerings that new technologies enable, and that new scholarship requires. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01g75mq79h3q0k1x2kztf3mb7e)) ^rw341572801 # FORCE11 Manifesto - Cover:: ![rw-book-cover](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article2.74d541386bbf.png) ## Metadata - Author:: [[FORCE11]] - Full Title:: FORCE11 Manifesto - Category:: #articles - Date:: 2023-11-28 - Source:: reader - Document Tags:: [[force]] [[researchcommunications]] - URL:: https://force11.org/info/force11-manifesto/ ## Highlights - Two decades of emergent and increasingly pervasive information technology have demonstrated the potential for far more effective scholarly communication. However, the use of this technology remains limited; research processes and the dissemination of research results have yet to fully assimilate the capabilities of the web and other digital media. Producers and consumers remain wedded to formats developed in the era of print publication, and the reward systems for researchers remain tied to those delivery mechanisms. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01g74bkdp5gpsa8kctgmbyjkv9)) ^rw341201088 - Note: Closed access journals, PDFs, and incentive structures - Force11 (the Future of Research Communication and e-Scholarship) is a community of scholars, librarians, archivists, publishers and research funders that has arisen organically to help facilitate the change toward improved knowledge creation and sharing. Individually and collectively, we aim to bring about a change in scholarly communication through the effective use of information technology ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01g74bgg9wbm1a6g5w3r3bknvf)) ^rw341200903 - While not disputing the expressive power of the written word to communicate complex ideas, our foundational assumption is that scholarly communication by means of semantically-enhanced media-rich digital publishing is likely to have a greater impact than communication in traditional print media or electronic facsimiles of printed works. However, to date, online versions of ‘scholarly outputs’ have tended to replicate print forms, rather than exploit the additional functionalities afforded by the digital terrain. We believe that digital publishing of enhanced papers will enable more effective scholarly communication, which will also broaden to include, for example, better links to data, the publication of software tools, mathematical models, protocols and workflows, and research communication by means of social media channels. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01g74bp3sfp07ezzbbx9ewwgpd)) ^rw341201160 - Note: Semantics, linked data, multimedia. Replicating print. - This document highlights the findings of the Force11 workshop on the Future of Research Communication and e-Scholarship held at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, in August 2011: it summarizes a number of key problems facing scholarly publishing today, and presents a vision that addresses these problems, proposing concrete steps that key stakeholders can take to improve the state of scholarly publishing. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01g74bs1ktcj42mv8hsxkaqspz)) ^rw341201873 - Modern technologies enable vastly improved knowledge transfer and far wider impact. Freed from the restrictions of paper, numerous advantages appear. Communication becomes instantaneous across geographic boundaries. Terms in electronic documents may be automatically disambiguated and semantically defined by linking to standard terminology repositories, allowing more accurate retrieval in searches; complex entities mentioned in documents may be automatically expanded to show diagrams or pictures that facilitate understanding; citations to other documents may be enhanced by summaries generated automatically from the cited documents. Documents may be automatically clustered with others that are similar, showing their relationship to others within their scholarly context, and their place in the ongoing evolution of ideas. Ancillary material that augments the text of the scholarly work may be linked to or distributed with the work; this may include numerical data (from experiments), images and videos (showing procedures or scenarios), sound recordings, presentational materials, and other elements in forms of media still on the horizon. Extracts and discussions of scholarly work on social media such as blogs, online discussion groups and Twitter may greatly broaden the visibility of a work and enable it to be better evaluated and cross-linked to other information sources. A broad range of recent technological advances provide increasingly diverse and powerful opportunities for more effective scholarly communication; we need to grasp the opportunities and make these possibilities realities. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01g74e6dknmvx1ggxg0drcm0zx)) ^rw341213016 - Note: Memex - We see a future in which scientific information and scholarly communication more generally become part of a global, universal and explicit network of knowledge; where every claim, hypothesis, argument—every significant element of the discourse—can be explicitly represented, along with supporting data, software, workflows, multimedia, external commentary, and information about provenance. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01g74en56acbhjrew1kz6273vm)) ^rw341214587 - In this world of networked knowledge objects, it would be clear how the entities and discourse components are related to each other, including relationships to previous scholarship; learning about a new topic means absorbing networks of information, not individually reading thousands of documents. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01g74fde1xprswfkesxw97mg3t)) ^rw341216708 - Note: this seems kind of wrong "it would be clear" -- thinking of "the social graph is neither" and also "as if better wiring would eliminate the ghosts" - This vision moves away from the Gutenberg paper-centric model of the scholarly literature, towards a more distributed network-centric model; it is a model far better suited for making knowledge-level claims and supporting digital services, including more effective tracking and interrogation of what is known, not known, or contested. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01g74fsjpxxtatdh6736ybne2s)) ^rw341218157 - We need to acknowledge the fact that notions such as journal impact factor are poor surrogates for measuring the true impact of scholarship, and are increasingly irrelevant in a world of disaggregated knowledge units of vastly varying granularity; and we need to derive new mechanisms that allow us more accurately to measure true contributions to the ongoing enterprise of augmenting the world’s store of knowledge. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01g75mq1crmzqqw4zt37m2gs7e)) ^rw341572799 - The business models that are currently driving scholarly publishing, which rest mainly on libraries buying access rights to digital journals from publishers, are clearly no longer adequate to support the rich, variegated, integrated and disparate knowledge offerings that new technologies enable, and that new scholarship requires. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01g75mq79h3q0k1x2kztf3mb7e)) ^rw341572801