WHEN?: Thursday 28, October 2021 - 11AM (Santiago, Chile Time)

1,5 horas (Presentation in English: 45 min. | Q&A: 45 min.)

Speaker: Tiberius Ignat

Tiberius is the Director of Scientific Knowledge Services, a company that specializes in helping European libraries to embrace new technologies and ways of working. He runs in partnership with UCL Press and LIBER Europe a successful series of workshops - Focus On Open Science, now in its sixth year. After being a long-time individual member of LIBER, he became a LIBER Associate through his company where he is now the vice-chair of LIBER Citizen Science Working Group.

Tiberius is a member of the European Citizen Science Association and Citizen Science Association (US) and a member of the Scientific Committee for OAI12, the CERN - Geneva University Workshop on open science.

Tiberius Ignat has a personal interest in open science, particularly in citizen science and how open science could remain protected against unethical technologies.

He has a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science from the University of Bucharest.

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The current digital content industry is heavily oriented towards building platforms that track users’ behaviour and seek to convince them to stay longer and come back sooner onto the platform. Similarly, authors are incentivised to publish more and to become champions of dissemination. Arguably, these incentive systems are built around public reputation supported by a system of metrics, hard to be assessed. Generally, the digital content industry is permeable to non-human contributors (algorithms that are able to generate content and reactions), anonymity and identity fraud.

It is pertinent to discuss if early signs of track and persuasion are currently present in scholarly communication.

This presentation discusses the opportunity for conducting robust research about the use of “track and persuade” technologies in scholarly communication.
In a preliminary study, we collected observations on a sample of 148 relevant websites (in scholarly communication). Through this work, we tried to identify a) the essential questions, b) how much readers, authors and reviewers are tracked when they interact with such websites, and c) good practices to be recommended for future research, and d) whether citizen science is a suitable approach to further research in this field. We aim to determine a broader solution for building trust and infrastructure in scholarly communication. Early observations suggest that we can use the principles of open science to offer insights into this work going forward.

Moderador: Wouter Schallier, Jefe Biblioteca Hernán Santa Cruz, CEPAL, Naciones Unidas

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