A vision towards Scientific Communication Infrastructures

• DOI: 10.1007/s00799-013-0106-7
• Publication Date: 2013-07-13T09:31:02Z
• Authors: Donatella Castelli; Paolo Manghi; Costantino Thanos
• Keywords: Bridge (graph theory); Scientific Communication; Data Sharing; Scholarly Communication; Open research

The two pillars of the modern scientic communication are Data Centers and Research Digital Libraries, whose technologies and admin staff support researchers at storing, curating, sharing, and discovering the data and the publications they produce. Being realized to maintain and give access to the results of complementary phases of the scientificc research process, such systems are poorly integrated with one another and generally do not rely on the strengths of theother. Today, such a gap hampers achieving the objectives of the modern scientic communication, that is,publishing, interlinking, and discovery of all outcomesof the research process, from the experimental and observational datasets to the final paper. In this work, we envision that instrumental to bridge the gap is the construction of "Scientic Communication Infrastructures". The main goal of these infrastructures is to facilitate interoperability between Data Centers and Research Digital Libraries and to provide services that simplify the implementation of the large variety of modern scientific communication patterns.