Science 2.0 (change will happen….)

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The mission of the IPTS is to provide customer-driven support to the EU policy-making process by researching science-based responses to policy challenges that have both a socio-economic and a scientific or technological dimension. European Commission Joint Research Centre Institute for Prospective Technological Studies Contact informationAddress: Edificio Expo. c/ Inca Garcilaso, s/n. E-41092 Seville (Spain) E-mail: jrc-ipts-secretariat@ec.europa.eu Tel.: +34 954488318 Fax: +34 954488300 http://ipts.jrc.ec.europa.eu http://www.jrc.ec.europa.eu Legal NoticeNeither the European Commission nor any person acting on behalf of the Commission is responsible for the use which might be made of this publication. Europe Direct is a service to help you find answers to your questions about the European UnionFreephone number (*): 00 800 6 7 8 9 10 11 (*) Certain mobile telephone operators do not allow access to 00 800 numbers or these calls may be billed.A great deal of additional information on the European Union is available on the Internet. Reproduction is authorised provided the source is acknowledged Printed in Spain 1 PREFACEThis report is the compilation of three discussion papers prepared during the EPIS projectEuropean Perspectives on the Information Society -with a view to gaining an in-depth understanding of the creative content sector. The creative content sector is characterized by a great diversity of activities, therefore music, books, games, films / TV broadcasting, cultural spaces, mobile content and advertising have been the focus of EPIS, for two main reasons: the role of ICT in their evolution and their contribution to the creation of growth and jobs in Europe. By studying the future evolution of the sector the ultimate goal of EPIS was to provide strategic intelligence for policy makers, and assess the need for policy action in order to unleash the potential of the creative content sector in Europe. The three papers presented in this report address the following issues: -Discussion Paper 1 describes the state of the art of the creative content sector in Europe and establishes a present scenario, in market, industrial, technology and business terms, for a set of sub-sectors (books, music, audiovisual production, video games and cultural spaces) engaged in the mass production of creative goods. -Discussion Paper 2 analyses the impact of ICT innovations on the industrial structure and dominant business models of these sub-sectors. -Discussion Paper 3 focuses on factors related to consumer demand, and social and institutional issues that might drive or hinder the adoption of these innovations.The three discussion papers were presented and validated at a workshop (May 2007) with stakeholders from different parts of the creative content sector. They were also used as a basis to define theses for a Delphi survey that was carried out in June-July 2007. Finally the discussion paper findings helped define scenarios for the future of the creative content. These scenarios may be the subject of a separate publication....

Digital Earth 2020: towards the vision for the next decade

“…Whilst citizens' information provides new and exciting opportunities for collaborative and participative science, or Science 2.0 (Burgelman et al 2010), the development of web-enabled sensors (Klopfer and Simonis 2009, Broering et al 2010, De Longueville et al 2010) adds a complementary dimension. During the last decade, we witnessed a tremendous development and uptake of low-cost miniaturised sensors and wireless sensor nodes, while standards such as the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Sensor Web Enablement (Botts et al 2008) make it possible to treat equally all sensor-like information.…”

A European perspective on Digital Earth

“…Whilst citizens provide new and exciting opportunities for collaborative and participative science, or Science 2.0 (Burgelman et al 2010), the development of new sensors and their web-enablement make it possible, and indeed reinforce with citizens also acting like sensors, the transition from an essentially static representation of the Earth to one that is dynamic and interactive, and more responsive to the Grand Challenges identified by ICSU.…”

Alfabetización en Comunicación Científica: Acreditación, OA, redes sociales, altmetrics, bibliotecarios incrustados y gestión de la identidad digital

“…Aunque las mayores críticas se centran en decir que se trata de una simple medida de uso y no de influencia científica (Neylon 2011). Una serie de investigadores han trabajado en la identificación de nuevos métodos cuantitativos de evaluación de la investigación para la Web con el objetivos de complementar el análisis de citas tradicional (Burgelman et al 2010;Neylon 2011;Priem and Hemminger 2010); (Thelwall 2008). A este respecto se pueden diferenciar dos enfoques:…”