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University of Rhode Island

Technical Services Department Faculty Publications

2020

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Moving Forward With Digital Disruption: What Big Data, Iot, Synthetic Biology, Ai, Blockchain, And Platform Businesses Mean To Libraries, Bohyun Kim Jan 2020

Moving Forward With Digital Disruption: What Big Data, Iot, Synthetic Biology, Ai, Blockchain, And Platform Businesses Mean To Libraries, Bohyun Kim

Technical Services Department Faculty Publications

Digital disruption, also known as “the fourth industrial revolution,” is blurring the lines between the physical, digital, and biological spheres. This issue of Library Technology Reports (vol. 56, no. 2) examines today’s leading-edge technologies and their disruptive impacts on our society through examples such as extended reality, Big Data, the Internet of Things (IoT), synthetic biology, 3-D bio-printing, artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, and platform businesses in the sharing economy. This report explains

  • how new digital technologies are merging the physical and the biological with the digital;
  • what kind of transformations are taking place as a result in production, management, and …


Advocating For Reproducibility, Harrison Dekker, Amy Riegelman Jan 2020

Advocating For Reproducibility, Harrison Dekker, Amy Riegelman

Technical Services Department Faculty Publications

As guest editors, we are excited to publish this special double issue ofIASSIST Quarterly. The topics of reproducibility, replicability, and transparency have been addressed in past issues of IASSIST Quarterly and at the IASSIST conference, but this double issue is entirely focused on these issues.