Research is changing - becoming ever more data-centric. Data curation is the biggest challenge facing the research community (and libraries?).
He labels researchers as as 'extreme information workers', where data is exposed and relying on software as services.
He talks about the future of scholarly publishing, emphasising the rate of change and how it has to adapt, making reference to 'As we may read' by Paul Ginsparg, and the development of arXiv.
He stresses that webometrics will become increasingly important and uses the example of the University of Southampton, whch has a much higher ranking in relation to it's size, mainly because of it's research output visibility.
[For libraries this asks the question - are we measuring the right things with regard to the various statistics we collect?]
[For libraries this asks the question - are we measuring the right things with regard to the various statistics we collect?]
(note: Southhampton is the home of Eprints and have long been a leader in repository development and policy)
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