[Fis] New Discussion Session

[Pedro C. Marijuan]

Dear FIS Colleagues,

The New Course is here, and with it, it is time to continue our 
discussion sessions. We will start next week with:

INFORMATION AND LOCALITY, by Steven Ericsson-Zenith.

Another three/four sessions are in the pipeline (remember the open 
invitation to suggest themes/presenters). Hopefully we will have an 
exciting Course. During this Summer, I hope you all have had at least a 
decent resting time.
best wishes
--Pedro

PS. Thanks to Michel for his message on predatory publishers. I think it 
clearly connects with our recent discussions on library science. Along 
the 80's and 90's, when gauging the scientific papers and their 
citations became standardized and enormously facilitated (Garfield!), 
the metrics of professional advancement gradually substituted for the 
exchange of ideas in scholarly communication (the stupid 'publish or 
perish'). The increasing penetrance of digitalization has amplified the 
phenomenon and brought unintended spurious consequences as Michel 
describes with the predatory publishing. Now it seems we are entering in 
a next wave of digitalization, affecting knowledge creation itself. What 
unintended consequences may have the widespread presence of AI systems 
capable to handle enormous swaths of knowledge and to creatively 
recombine and apply it? Interestingly, the digitalization of society 
will be the leit motiv of next IS4IS & FIS conference (2017, 
Gothenburg)organized by Gordana...

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Pedro C. Marijuán
Grupo de Bioinformación / Bioinformation Group
Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud
Centro de Investigación Biomédica de Aragón (CIBA)
Avda. San Juan Bosco, 13, planta X
50009 Zaragoza, Spain
Tfno. +34 976 71 3526 (& 6818)
pcmarijuan.iacs at aragon.es
http://sites.google.com/site/pedrocmarijuan/
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