From: Julie Therizols <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 16:56:18 +0200
By awarding Marin Dacos the Innovation Medal, the CNRS (French
National Center for Scientific Research) is shining the spotlight on a
society-oriented academic dissemination tool for the first time.
In less than two decades, Marin Dacos and his team have built an
international infrastructure for the dissemination of the humanities
and social sciences, one that is both by and for the research
community, but also open to the general public. By combining the human
and social sciences with high-level information technology, this
instrument to democratise access to knowledge represents a major
contribution to the advance of the digital humanities.
OpenEdition, a knowledge dissemination portal
The OpenEdition infrastructure has developed over the years and now
includes four platforms: Revues.org (430 academic journals), Calenda
(30 000 events and calls), Hypotheses (1 500 blogs/research blogs),
and finally OpenEdition Books. This last platform, which is home to 54
publishers and almost 3 000 online books, was building using Equipex
funding from Investments for the Future, obtained in 2012. The portal
as a whole received over 60 million visits in 2015, making it a
leading actor in this domain in Europe. 80% of the portal’s content is
in open access, without any technical or monetary barriers to access,
which explains OpenEdition’s success as a knowledge democratisation
tool.
Marin Dacos, a public knowledge entrepreneur
OpenEdition is an endeavour which for Marin Dacos began in 1999, when
he created Revues.org. After joining the CNRS in 2007 after a spell at
the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Marin Dacos
won the CNRS Cristal Medal in 2010, a distinction that aims to
recognise engineers’ work. With Pierre Mounier he co-authored an
authoritative work in this domain: L’édition électronique (La
Découverte, 2010). The Innovation Medal awarded in 2016 is above all a
sign of the dynamic he has been able to instil at the Cléo (Centre for
Open Electronic Publishing), the establishment he founded and which
runs OpenEdition. The Cléo is a CNRS mixed services unit affiliated to
the EHESS, Aix-Marseille University and the University of Avignon.
CNRS Innovation Medals
Awarded since 2011 by a jury made up of the high-level CNRS Collège de
Direction, representatives of the CNRS’s partnerships and the Ministry
of National Education, Higher Education and Research, as well as
personalities from the business world, each year the Innovation Medals
are bestowed on three or four researchers and honour “exceptional
academic research that has led to remarkable technological,
therapeutic or societal innovation”. The Innovation Medal is the most
prestigious medal awarded by the CNRS after the CNRS Gold Medal, ahead
of the Silver, Bronze and Cristal Medals. Twenty-one researchers have
received the award since 2011, in the most varied of disciplines. This
is only the second time – after Esther Duflo (developmental economics)
in 2011 – that a specialist in the humanities and social sciences has
won the prize.
More information
The OpenEdition portal: http://www.openedition.org
« Knowledge is a weapon: Innovation Medal 2016 – Acceptance Speech »,
Blogo-numericus, 20 juin 2016, https://bn.hypotheses.org/11766
« Les as de l’innovation », Journal du CNRS, 11 mai 2016,
https://lejournal.cnrs.fr/articles/les-de-linnovation (only in French)
« Marin Dacos, directeur d’OpenEdition », film réalisé par Alexandra
Ena et produit par CNRS Images, 2:59, juin 2016,
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4flpcd_marin-dacos-directeur-d-openedition_school
(only in French)
Les Médailles de l’innovation du CNRS,
http://www.cnrs.fr/fr/recherche/prix/medaillesinnovation.htm
Contact
Marin Dacos
Directeur du Cléo, Marseille
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Twitter : @marindacos
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