Cameron Neylon

I am speaking at the Eduserv Symposium on London in late May on the
subject of the importance of identity systems for advancing the open
research agenda.

From the announcement:

The Eduserv Symposium 2009 will be held on Thursday 21st May 2009 at the
Royal College of Physicians, London. More details about the event are
available from: <http://www.eduserv.org.uk/events/esym09>

This symposium will be of value to people with an interest in the impact
that the social Web is having on research practice and scholarly
communication and the resulting implications for identity and access
management. Attendees will gain an insight into the way the research
landscape is evolving and will be better informed when making future
decisions about policy or practice in this area.

Confirmed speakers include: James Farnhill, Joint Information Systems
Committee; Nate Klingenstein, Internet2; Cameron Neylon, Science and
Technology Facilities Council; Mike Roch, University of Reading; David
Smith, CABI; John Watt, National e-Science Centre (Glasgow).

I've just written the abstract and title for my talk and will in time
honored fashion be preparing the talk "just in time" so will try to make
it as up to the minute as possible. Any comments or suggestions are
welcome and the slides will be available on slideshare as soon as I have
finalized them (probably just after I give the talk...)

***Oh, youâ€™re* that *"Cameron Neylon": Why effective identity
management is critical to the development of open research***

There is a growing community developing around the need make the outputs
of research available more efficiently and more effectively. This ranges
from efforts to improve the quality of data presentation in published
peer reviewed papers through to efforts where the full record of
research is made available online, as it is recorded. A major fear as
more material goes online in different forms is that people will not
receive credit for their contribution. The recognition of researcherâ€™s
contribution has always focussed on easily measurable quantities. As the
diversity of measurable contributions increases there is a growing need
to aggregate the contributions of a specific researcher together in a
reliable and authoritative way. The key to changing researcher behaviour
lies in creating a reward structure that acknowledges their contribution
and allows them to effectively cited. Effective mechanisms for uniquely
identifying researchers are therefore at the heart of constructing
reward systems that support an approach to research that fully exploits
the communication technologies available to us today.


I am speaking at the Eduserv Symposium on London in late May on the subject of the importance of identity systems for advancing the open research agenda. From the announcement:  The Eduserv Symposium 2009 will be held on Thursday 21st May 2009 at the Royal College of Physicians, London.

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