Introduction to "Research and Scholarship Ecosystem Evolution"
The diagram of the ecosystem of scholarly digital content and emerging software stack is not that exciting–you've seen it before. He has been told that there will be no more 20K payments to anyone until how it all fits together is understood. He reviewed the stack and had added VIVO as part of supporting code base.
Integration and interoperability are still on the table as unresolved connectivity issues. We should be focused on infrastructure development, not one-off baubles. "Resist the siren song of tight integrations to get to the shiny thing; look at it strategically for the long-haul."
The nature of how we use digital content in almost any context is that we take something and do something else with it. This is what teachers and students do with stuff from a repository
The days of faith-based assertions about value and impact are over. We need to back up assertions with data.
If it looks open it might actually not be--who will own educational content (for example)?
Hilton advocates for loose coupling of components to make it possible to establish workflow exit strategies.
