At the first day of the IEEE European Conference on Web Services we had the opening keynote by Dr.Fabio Casati from the University of Trento chaired by the founder of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Community for Services Computing Dr. Liang-Jie Zhang.

Dr.Liang-Jie Zhang and Dr. Fabio Casati
Dr. Fabio Casati presented the LiquiPub European project that aims to explore new models for research journals. LiquiPub innovate in the way how the papers journals are reviewed and published.

Liquidpub presentation by Dr.Fabio Casati
“The LiquidPub project proposes a paradigm shift in the way scientific knowledge is created, disseminated, evaluated and maintained. This shift is enabled by the notion of Liquid Publications, which are evolutionary, collaborative, and composable scientific contributions. Many Liquid Publication concepts are based on a parallel between scientific knowledge artifacts and software artifacts, and hence on lessons learned in (agile, collaborative, open source) software development, as well as on lessons learned from Web 2.0 in terms of collaborative evaluation of knowledge artifacts” [1].
LiquidPub introduce the concept of Liquid Journals : ” Once a set of papers has been identified as worthy of inclusion in a journal, their liquid version as opposed to their static snapshot is added to the journal. So if a new version of a paper in a journal is published by the authors, it is now the new version that belongs to the journal . We call these as liquid journals. The number and kind of papers are static, but the journal evolves with the included papers. We may still have the notion of “issue”, though it begins to be decoupled with time” [1].
1.- http://project.liquidpub.org
2.- https://dev.liquidpub.org/svn/liquidpub/papers/deliverables/LiquidPub%20paper-latest.pdf