Scholarly Communications Using the Decentralized Web

Now: Publisher-Centric Communications

• Majority of publications via a few large publishers

• Publishers control large parts of scholarly communication
    → power

Exploring a Decentralized Scholarly Web

• Giving back control to the researchers

  Publisher-centric → Researcher-centric

• Decomposing functions of scholarly communication

  Registration, certification, awareness, archiving

• Investigating existing and new technologies

  Linked Data, Solid, Web APIs, Querying, Versioning

→ A blueprint for future decentralized scholarly communication