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Oxford Internet Institute Produces Its First Interactive iBook of Research 22 March 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

More than a dozen leading experts give their opinions on where the Internet is headed and where it will be in the next decade in terms of technology, policy, and applications. They cover topics ranging from the Internet of Things to climate change to the digital storage of the future. A summary of the articles is available in the Web extras section. (requires subs, alas)

By an overwhelming margin, technology experts and stakeholders participating in a survey fielded by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project and Elon University's Imagining the Internet Center believe that innovative forms of online cooperation could result in more efficient and responsive for-profit firms, non-profit organizations, and government agencies by the year 2020.

Heather Morrison has released a draft of her doctoral thesis Freedom for Scholarship in the Internet Age.

The fascination with completeness is as timeless as it is ingrained. In the last decade, the Internet has made the ambition of universality appear closer to realization than ever before:

"You go to the store to buy a television, and then you come home and you watch some television. But the television you buy isn't the television you watch, and the television you watch isn't the television you buy. We use the same word to refer to the object and the content flow, and nobody gets confused because we all know what television is. Now all of a sudden, we have video spilling out of phones and personal computers, and the question "Is that television?" becomes really complicated."

STAR METRICS programme - "The first aim of the programme is to build a 'clean' database of all federally funded researchers in the United States ... Later on, the plan is to track patents, citations and other metrics of the research's impact. ... researchers' use of the Internet to communicate and publish will enable STAR METRICS to track the creation and transfer of knowledge properly for the first time"

A presentation by Lee Rainie, Director, Pew Internet Project

Categories include "Policies, Best Practices and Guidelines," "Roles, Services and Skills" "Directories of Data Repositories" "Metadata Standards" among other resources

eScience refers to new science opportunities that require distributed collaborations and enabled by emerging internet technologies. These technologies include grid computing, distributed data management, and collaborative tools. Many tools are still in the process of rapid development, and in some cases standards are not yet established.

Digital media and the Internet are transforming how young people learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic life. A newly-created Digital Media and Learning Research Hub located at the University of California-Irvine will provide an international center to nurture exploration of and build evidence around the impact of digital media on young people's learning and its potential for transforming education. Funded through a $2.97 million grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Center was announced today at a national forum at Google headquarters that brought together leading thinkers around the challenge of reasserting American global leadership in education.

Response to 2010 Edge question, talks about connectedness on internet and social web

April 28-30, the Raleigh Convention Center will be alive with action as Elon University's Imagining the Internet Center hosts FutureWeb: WWWhere Are We Heading? in conjunction with the international WWW2010 conference.

Global Reset Series / by John Wilbanks / January 28, 2011The scientific paper has long been the unit of scientific knowledge. Now, with print media lapsing into obsolescence, the internet is poised to transform science publishing and science itself.

The possibilities offered by the Internet will give researchers and teaching staff broad and easy access to scientific/scholarly sources. It is not only publications that will become available but also the underlying data, models, and algorithms. Adding the underlying data and models to an article makes it easier to verify, reproduce, and re-use the results of research. An article of this kind is referred to as an "enhanced publication