LIBER 39TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE - Statsbiblioteket

PREsEntatIon By ouR sPonsoR
RafaEL sIdI (ELsEvIER, usa):
LEvERagIng tEchnoLogy to
tRansfoRm thE scIEntIfIc
LandscaPE
The open data trend allowing the proliferation
of applications consumers use on
a daily basis (i.e., Flixster, Urban Spoon,
etc.) is now crossing over to the scientific
community, creating a significant opportunity
to enrich content and speed innovation.
Simultaneously, the availability to
access and connect raw data is emerging
as a critical component to fuel scientific
discovery as research becomes even more
multidisciplinary and collaborative.
Through thousands of interviews with
researchers and industry influencers, it’s
clear there is an opportunity to create an
environment that empowers the scientific
community to maximize the potential
benefits of research-driven applications to
search and discovery. The unprecedented
approach would alter the relationship between
scientific information and the way
it is discovered, used, shared and re-used
for scientific breakthroughs.
As the scientific community experiments
and builds innovative applications to
leverage available data and deliver
“intelligent information” through innovative
applications, content consumption
will be fundamentally changed. Microcommunities
designed around information
and applications in which users help each
other curate will evolve and transform
into trusted networks for researchers to
filter and view information. As this new
scientific knowledge ecosystem flourishes,
it will create the building blocks that
capture existing knowledge on any given
subject and serve as the foundation for
new discoveries.
Universities, commercial and government
institutions will be crucial in encouraging
researchers to develop new applications.
Within these institutions, it is the librarians
who have the greatest opportunity
to champion the cause as the influential
gatekeepers of research.
This presentation will delve into the power
and benefit of generating tailored applications
for scientific researchers focused
on improving the search and discovery
process, as well as the steps required from
all parties – librarians, researchers, publishers
and platform providers – involved
to make these applications a reality.
Rafael sidi is Vice President, Product
Management at ScienceDirect at Elsevier.
Currently he is in charge of online product
development for ScienceDirect platform
and new initiatives related to knowledge
discovery. He has been with Elsevier since
2001, and he has been instrumental
in developing Engineering Village and
launching illumin8. He was also the
publisher for the Compendex database.
Before joining Elsevier Rafael was Director
of e-commerce operations at Bolt, a teenage
social networking portal. Rafael holds
an MA from Brandeis University and a
BS in electrical engineering from Bogazici
University in Istanbul, Turkey.
30 JunE 2010
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