From john wilbanks’ blog

• Call for Postdocs – Enhanced scientific publications

  If you’ve got an interest in next-generation publishing in science, and you’ve always wanted to live in Paris…I’ve got a job opening you might be interested in after the jump. Please forward this far and wide. It’s a great project. If I were younger – and had a doctorate so that I could be a postdoc – I’d be all over this one.

’ve contacted you some time ago about an EC project that starts this year on the design of new models of publication for the academy. (details at: www.project.liquidpub.org ). The profile is for someone who has an interest in the design of new knowledge objects, some programming skills and a more general interest in open source.
Any help in diffusing this message to the relevant people or lists is more
than welcome.

To whom it may concern; and apologies for multiple postings!
’LiquidPublication’ Post-doctoral researcher Innovating the Scientific Knowledge Object Lifecycle Institut Jean Nicod (CNRS, EHSS, ENS), Paris -under the responsibility of Gloria Origgi and Roberto Casati
Candidates are invited to submit an application (in English) including a
detailed curriculum vitae, a list of publications, a statement of interest,
and two letters of recommendation. The application should be sent directly both to Gloria Origgi at origgi@ehess.fr and to Roberto Casati at casati@ehess.fr .
We are seeking to recruit a post-doctoral researcher as part of an
international project entitled LiquidPublication. Funded by the European Commission, the project will bring together a highly interdisciplinary team of researchers and experts in order to explore how ICT and the lessons learned from software engineering and the social Web can be applied to provide a radical paradigm shift in the way scientific knowledge is created, disseminated, evaluated, and maintained. The goal to exploit the novel technologies to enable a transition of the “scientific paper” from its traditional “solid” form, (i.e., a crystallization in space and time of a scientific knowledge artifact) to a Liquid Publication (or LiquidPub for short), that can take multiple shapes, evolves continuously in time, and is enriched by multiple sources. We call these new, dynamic objects, Scientific
Knowledge Objects (SKO). More details on the project and its partners are available at: http://project.liquidpub.org/

PMR:I agree with John – this is one of the several ways in which we need to explore a new generation of publishing. We aren’t seeing nearly enough innovation coming from publishers – we need new visions. One of the benefits of European funding is that there is a commitment to the knowledge economy and a realisation that  this is critical to Europe’s future well-being.
Although the description of this post is quite high-level it would be nice if it encompassed work on semantic scientific objects (datuments).