Grand Challenges Keynote: Anasuya Sengupta
Channel: MITLibraries
Date: 2018-06-25

MIT hosted a working summit on the Grand Challenges in Information Science and Scholarly Communication March 19-23, 2018. Inviting experts from across disciplines and sectors, the summit aimed to identify critical problems in information science that are solvable within 10 years and which have broad implications across the scholarly community.

Workshops focused on producing draft research agendas in the areas of:

Scholarly discovery
Digital curation and preservation
Open scholarship

Learn more at https://grandchallenges.mit.edu

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