This might be of interest to the AIMS community members interested in exploiring new forms of scholarly communication.

Some days ago it was announced the launch of the W3C Research Object for Scholarly Communication (ROSC) Community Group (#rosc). The primary goal of the Community Group is to provide a platform for scholars, librarians, publishers, archivists and policy makers to exchange requirements and expectations for supporting a new form of scholarly communication, i.e. making the actual research assets available as first-class objects to enable better reuse and reproduce of research results and knowledge.

The group aims to discuss and produce various documents on use cases, requirements, survey of related work, and best practice guidelines to facilitate the realisation of the new form of scholarly communication.

Deliverables

The Community Group aims to produce the following types of deliverables:

• Use cases for the representation, publishing, and exchange of research objects on the Web
• Requirements and desiderata distilled from the use cases for the above purposes
• Survey of related work on supporting the representation, publishing, and exchange of research objects.
• Various best practices and guidelines towards a community-wide practice of sharing, citing, and exchanging of research objects

Communication

This group primarily conducts its work on the public mailing list [email protected] and the group wiki page.

More information

The Community Group is open to all. More details can be found also in the charter page.