e-Research and new challenge in knowledge structuring

Keynote address - day two of the ISKO UK 2009 biennale conference

Clifford Lynch offered a high-level overview of some of the developments in e-research and
cyberinfrastructure, with emphasis on some of the opportunities for data curation and
data reuse, with considerable emphasis on humanities and social sciences as well as science
and engineering.He also looked at developments in ‘citizen science’ and what might be
thought of as ‘citizen humanities’ in this context. The talk concluded with consideration
of the changing nature of publishing/authoring, particularly in the scholarly sphere, and the
implications of the production of structured, reuseable, and interchangeable knowledge as
part of the processes of scholarship and scholarly communication.