The impact of cloud computing on scientific communication

"2011 China Webmaster Survey and Internet Ecology Report" puts forward the new development trend of 7 aspects of the Internet that focus on mobile service: connectivity, open distribution, web site, mobile, app application, location base, and social network.

In order to adapt to the above seven development trends, the current Internet has produced some major technical changes, can be summed up to three aspects: social network, mobility and cloud computing. These three changes have had a profound impact on all sectors of the economy, and here we have to think about, http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/6298.html "> The new trends in Internet development will have a major impact on scientific communication, especially the impact of cloud computing on scientific communication.

First of all, social network has become one of the important forms of the current scientific communication. The earliest information release was published through the website in text form, more and more information is being disseminated through social networks, and the exponential spread effect of social networks is far beyond expectations, such as through social networks such as Sina Weibo, where any average person can quickly disseminate relevant information and gain access to a wide audience. In social networks, the subject of communication is also the receptor of communication, the boundary between the subject and the receptor is blurred, and every individual in social network is "from the media". In the field of scientific communication, the spread of various subjects on the one hand and use of social network platform (such as Sina Weibo, etc.) to expand the impact of scientific communication, and some institutions have used social network technology to build their own network communication systems, such as science nets, shell nets. This social networking service provides each user with a personalized space for authoring, communication, and communication, which is exactly the pattern of a cloud computing Service (SaaS).

Second, in the Cloud computing service technology and the concept of led by the scientific dissemination of the field of scientific dissemination of cloud resources services application cases. The core of cloud computing is to provide users with relevant resources and application services on demand, dynamic and elasticity, which emphasizes the barrier-free cross-platform and Terminal Services, while the current application of the scientific Communication Cloud resource service is mainly to provide users with information content resource service on demand and dynamic, Users can access and enjoy the various types of scientific communication resources and content provided in the cloud environment with multiple terminals, anytime, anywhere, without concern about the specific distribution and format of these resources and other technical details, the proportion of the typical example is the "National Science Popularization Resource Grid", users to more than a terminal way to download or watch digital, popular science content.

Now the relevant organizations have begun to develop how to provide users, especially scientists, the content of science and technology to create cloud service system. An example of this is the "Scientific Communication cloud creation Service platform" currently being studied and constructed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The platform comprehensively analyzes the current types and processes of scientific communication work conducted by scientists of CAS will provide a set of popular science creation cloud services to fully support the scientific work of scientists, including popular science activities, science articles writing, scientific video sharing, education tourism, hot topics of collaborative creative, scientific interactive questions and answers, electronic journal creation, Popular Science website Construction. The creation cloud can be on demand, dynamic for scientists to open the corresponding hardware and software services environment, to provide a unified service portal, monitoring, billing, payment and other services. Through the popular science creation cloud platform can support the Chinese Academy of Sciences Network Popular Science union member unit (has the fixed science popularization team) fast and continuously carries on the knowledge popularization and the dissemination in this subject domain to provide the thrust, in particular, we should reduce the time and technology cost of scientists ' participation in popular science work, and explore a new model for scientists to participate in scientific communication work conveniently.

One of the biggest charms of cloud computing is that users can use the cloud computing resources they need anytime, anywhere, and that will drive the development of mobile terminals and mobile apps, with at least thousands of popular science apps in the Apple Store and Android Market. With the low threshold of app development technology, mobile science applications based on iOS and Android will become a new trend in the future, and there may be a new application category of "Technology/science popularization" in Apple Mall in the near future.

In a word, cloud technology has changed the mode of production and consumer consumption of science communication and education, and also promoted the ability of science communication and science education. What we need to do is, on the basis of cloud technology, break through the traditional science communication and science education content products and related services, so that our scientific communication level and effect reach new heights.

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)