Hi Heather, Good to meet you in Toronto recently for ELPUB.
It’s funny you mention Google, as Google Scholar was also started by just two people ( source: https://www.nature.com/news/google-scholar-pioneer-on-search-engine-s-future-1.16269 ). It’s an apt comparison in that respect. Even today I believe the entirety of the Google Scholar team is just 3 people. I’ll let Jason respond to the rest, but I couldn’t resist chiming in with that. Kind regards, Ross On Tue, 10 Jul 2018 at 18:31, Heather Morrison <[email protected]> wrote: > hi Jason, > > > Congratulations!!! > > > Comment: This is a VERY ambitious goal, even for an $850,000 project; this > strikes me as Google-size ambition that calls for a Google-size budget (but > I would be happy to be proved wrong). > > > Question: if this succeeds, what is the long-term business strategy? To > date, developing interesting projects then selling to Elsevier seems to be > the go-to business plan (Mendeley, SSRN, bepress, Plum Analytics...). > What's your plan? > > > best, > > > Heather Morrison > > Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa > > Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université d'Ottawa > > [email protected] > > https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/?lang=en#/members/706 > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of > Jason Priem <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Tuesday, July 10, 2018 11:38 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [GOAL] Announcing: $850k grant from Arcadia Fund to build new > scholarly search engine for public > > Hi all, > Thought you might be interested in this new OA project! > > This scholarly search engine will be a little different than the (many) > already out there: it's aimed at a nonspecialist audience of citizen > scientists, patients, K-12 teachers, and so on. > > To do that we'll need to rely not just on OA, but also on a set of > AI-powered systems that help explain and contextualize articles, providing > concept maps, automated plain-language translations (think automatic Simple > Wikipedia <https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page>), structured > abstracts, and so on. > > The goal is that by making the products of research *accessible* (in > every sense of the word) to the public, we can help deliver on some of the > bolder promises of OA to really transform knowledge. > > More info is at http://gettheresearch.org. Would love to hear any > criticisms, suggestions, and ideas! > > Apologetically cross-postingly yours, > Jason > > -- > Jason Priem, co-founder > Impactstory <http://impactstory.org/>: We make tools to power the Open > Science revolution > follow at @jasonpriem <http://twitter.com/jasonpriem> and @impactstory > <http://twitter.com/impactstory> > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal > -- -- -/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/- Ross Mounce www.rossmounce.co.uk <http://rossmounce.co.uk/> -/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-
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