Publishing Workflows

"I want publishers to publish my workflows" Philip Bourne -What Do I Want from the Publisher of the Future?

Open Platform, Open Source, Open Innovation

That's what I have been pitching in the last few years: turn STM publishers into platform providers.

From Publisher To Platform: How The Guardian Used Content, Search, and Open Source To Build a Powerful New Business Model

TransInsight team makes ordering of antibodies easier while searching PubMed.

Guardian MicroApp Platform

Guardian now lets 3rd party apps in Guardian's site

David Fishman puts nicely "Opening up APIs to turn content into new and different applications is just what Apple does with hundreds of thousands of iPhone/iPad/iPod apps. Content, again, is king." Lucid Imaginations

ANKOS

Last week I participated to ANKOS 10th Annual Meeting. The event was hosted by Ayhan Kaygusuz (ITU) and ANKOS board and Gultekin Gurdal did a terrific job with the meeting.
One of the key take aways for me was the high energy level of the young Turkish librarians and their in depth knowledge of their customers and information industry.