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- Title
It's not filter failure, it's a discovery deficit.
- Authors
Neylon, Cameron
- Abstract
The web has changed our information-seeking behaviour radically, yet scholarly communication remains firmly embedded in the traditions of the print world. Here, I argue that the dropping costs of publication and distribution mean that effort and resource expended on preventing publication is wasted and that developing the tools and culture for post-publication annotation, curation and ranking is more productive. Rather than see this as information overload, or in Clay Shirky's words, a 'filter failure', I propose that it is more useful to see the problem as a 'discovery deficit'. This flood of content, instead of being a problem, is an opportunity to build technical and cultural frameworks that will enable us to extract more value from the outputs of research by exploiting the efficiencies that web-based systems can provide.
- Subjects
INFORMATION-seeking strategies; ELECTRONIC information resource searching; INFORMATION retrieval; INTERNET research; ELECTRONIC publications; INFORMATION overload; SCHOLARLY communication; SCHOLARLY publishing
- Publication
Serials, 2011, Vol 24, Issue 1, p21
- ISSN
0953-0460
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1629/2421