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Centralized vs decentralized information systems-NISO Plus
Abstract
Modern information systems tend to be very centralized, with consolidating forces over the last 30 years defeating the original decentralized architecture of the early Internet and World Wide Web. This session will focus on various projects over the last few years that are focusing on re-decentralizing information flows, from webscale architectures to scholarly publication.
Modern information systems tend to be very centralized, with consolidating forces over the last 30 years defeating the original decentralized architecture of the early Internet and World Wide Web. This session will focus on various projects over the last few years that are focusing on re-decentralizing information flows, from webscale architectures to scholarly publication.
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With more than 25 years of experience in product and platform development in scholarly communications, Chris helps industry groups formulate product and technology strategy in a time of rapidly changing business models, new technology, and increasing expectations from users and customers. Chris has played a significant role in many collaborative infrastructure projects and is a strong believer in the power of community-wide collaboration to solve tough problems and drive progress. He was a co-author of the original paper which led to the use of DOIs for reference linking, going on to spend 20 years working with Crossref, including 10 years as a board member. He was a founder member of the ORCID board, helping that organization grow from start-up to become a sustainable part of the scholarly infrastructure landscape before later joining as their second ever Executive Director. He was part of the committee which oversaw the NISO/NFAIS integration, and he continues to serve on the NISO Board. Chris holds a Masters in Electronic Systems Engineering from the University of York in the UK.
Maria Stanton is the Director of Production for Atla, and a member of Atla’s executive leadership team. Atla is a non-profit membership association of librarians and information professionals and a producer of research tools committed to advancing the scholarly study of religion and theology. Maria has strategic responsibility for Atla’s family of products and new product initiatives. Maria represents Atla at various international meetings and conferences, engaging with librarians and publishers. Maria developed a collaborative relationship with ANZTLA, the Australian and New Zealand Theological Library Association, through this work.
Before joining Atla, Maria served in various leadership roles with organizations supporting the work of the academic library and publishing communities, including Vice President of Production at Alexander Street Press and Senior Director of Content Operations at Serials Solutions.
Maria serves as Vice Chair of the NISO Board for 2021-2022. Maria also serves on SSP’s Early Career Subcommittee and NASIG’s Conference Program Planning Committee.
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Wendy Hanamura is the Director of Partnerships at the Internet Archive, one of the world’s largest digital libraries. She helps to steward the DWeb community (GetDWeb.net) that now encompasses ten global nodes of technologists, policymakers, artists and activists all working to build a better web. Hanamura produced the Decentralized Web Summits in 2016 & 2018, and DWeb Camp in 2019. At the Internet Archive, her areas of responsibility include communication and content strategy, strategic planning, and partnership building, all in service of the Internet Archive’s mission: universal access to knowledge. Hanamura was also an Emmy Award-winning television producer & correspondent (CBS, NHK, PBS, KCET/Link) and serves on the boards or advisory panels of the Filecoin Foundation, Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web, Earth Species Project, Harvard Asian American Alumni Alliance, Whose Knowledge? and the Ruddie Memorial Youth Foundation.
Ámbar Tenorio-Fornés (they/she/he) is a free software developer and researcher, with a 5 years degree and a Master in Research in Computer Science. They are the founder and director of Decentralized Academy Ltd, and they lead the development of the blockchain-based softwareDecentralized Science (funded byLEDGER European Project) andQuartz Open Access (funded byGrant for The Web program). They have submitted their PhD at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, for which they received funding by an institutional scholarship. Their research aims to provide decentralized governance tools for Commons-Based Peer Production communities. Their previous research and development experience includes participation in the European ProjectsP2P Models andP2Pvalue. They have been visiting researcher at the University of Surrey, the University of Westminster and Kozminski University. Their experience developing decentralized web tools includesTeem,SwellRT,Decentralized.science, andQuartz Open Access using technologies such as Blockchain and IPFS.
The Research Organization Registry (ROR) (https://ror.org) is an open registry of research organization identifiers that can be used to enrich metadata for scholarly outputs and enable more efficient tracking of research by institutions. ROR IDs are being integrated into many types of platforms and systems wherever affiliation details are collected and presented. In order for the registry to be a trusted data source, we need to keep records up to date as organizations change over time or when new organizations need to be added. ROR is piloting a unique community-based approach to curating registry metadata as part of a funded project through the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS). This approach involves leveraging community curators from around the world, building open infrastructure to support updates to the registry, and developing open, transparent, globally inclusive policies and workflows for handling registry updates. In this talk, we will explain how and why we have developed this approach, share the lessons we have learned along the way, and discuss what we will be doing to further develop our infrastructure and workflows to support the usability and accessibility of the registry over the long term.
