Scholarly Communications in the age of Big Data – Rules of Practical Information Economics
Presentation by Dr. Micah Altman
Friday, March 13, 11am, Marston Science Library, L136
Abstract: More content is being created by scientists and scholars than ever — and vastly greater collections of information are the subject of science as scholarship. Simultaneously, the community of users for and uses of this information are changing. This talk reflects on trends in the generation and use of durable information assets in scholarship and science, and on understanding the changing relationship between consumers, purchasers and funders.
Speaker Bio: Micah Altman (http://micahaltman.com/) is Director of Research and Head/Scientist, Program on Information Science for the MIT Libraries, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Altman is also a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution. Prior to arriving at MIT, Dr. Altman served at Harvard University for fifteen years as the Associate Director of the Harvard-MIT Data Center, Archival Director of the Henry A. Murray Archive, and Senior Research Scientist in the Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences. Dr. Altman conducts research in social science, information science and research methods — focusing on the intersections of information, technology, privacy, and politics; and on the dissemination, preservation, reliability and governance of scientific knowledge.
2015-03-04