This past year, I have contemplated and reevaluated what we actually mean by “digital transformation.” We have let it become the goal, the vision, the endgame. Transformation is a means to an end rather than an end unto itself.
This post is the second in our two-part series on key trends emerging from the coronavirus disruption of the scientific publishing ecosystem that are likely to continue in 2021.
Over the coming months, CCC will publish a series of occasional posts on the topic of Peer Review in a COVID World, exploring various facets of the impact of data and peer review in scholarly publishing.
At a time like the current pandemic, when timeliness appears to outweigh all other data quality dimensions, data governance has never been more important.
In the COVID19 era, data scientists have the expertise and a professional obligation to play vital roles, says Harvard statistics Professor Xiao-Li Meng. The coronavirus pandemic, he says, presents them with opportunities to explore important social and scientific questions.
CCC hosted its first virtual Town Hall on May 5. Global leaders from across the publishing industry shared insights on how COVID-19 is rewriting the rules for business, publishing, academia, media and technology and what these transformations mean to the world of publishing.
Today’s headlines show us that in the face of regrettable loss of life, overwhelmed health systems worldwide, and major business disruption, the world can be united and work together to regain health and prosperity.