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Founder, co-editor and publisher of [[Mute Magazine]] and Metamute.com. He has been active in promoting the use of DIY wireless technologies in the East End of [[London]]. He instigated the You Are Here wireless porject for Mute, and contributes to the East-end-net network. He has organised many events and practical workshops on the technology required for establishing wireless networks.
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'''Simon Worthington''' is a researcher in future publishing — [[Free software|free and open source systems]], economic models, and the politics of Open Science. Author of ‘The Book Liberation Manifesto’ supporting the FOSS community to make research available to all through platform independent, interoperable publications. He is the Editor-in-Chief at Generation Research an editorial platform for open scholarship for the Leibniz Association Research Alliance Open Science and is based in R&D at the Open Science Lab, TIB – German National Library of Science and Technology. As of 2019 he is a Board Member of FORCE11 an organisation for the future of scholarly communication. He has worked as a research author for the Akademienunion at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften on ‘AGATE’ a research publication for scoping the technical data connection of all of Europe’s Academies of Arts and Science digital repositories. From 2012/15 he led the research unit ‘Publishing Consortium’ as part of the Hybrid Publishing Lab at Leuphana University, Germany. In 1994 he co-founded and published ''[[Mute]]'' magazine a culture and technology publication, the European counter to ''Wired'' magazine, and continues as a member of the editorial collective and as publisher. He originally studied media art at the Slade School, UCL (UK) and CalArts (USA). [https://vivo.tib.eu/fis/display/n0000-0002-8579-9717 (2022)]
  
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He completed his BA Fine Art [Hons] Painting degree at the Slade School of Art [University College London] in 1992, where he ran an open contributions magazine called Mute. In 1991, his interest in the creative applications of technology led him to attend CalArts in [[Los Angeles]], where he decided to relaunch Mute as a critical quarterly. Mute have staged two events exploring the critical context of technology at Tate Modern.
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* [https://mrchristian.github.io/ Website]
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* https://github.com/NFDI4Culture/ada
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* https://semanticclimate.org/p/en/
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* [https://vivo.tib.eu/fis/display/n0000-0002-8579-9717 Profile on TIB]
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* [[Mastodon::https://openbiblio.social/@mrchristian]] [[Mastodon|(Mastodon)]]
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* [https://twitter.com/mrchristian99 Twitter]
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* [http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8579-9717 ORCID]
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Latest revision as of 08:51, 15 December 2022

Simon Worthington is a researcher in future publishing — free and open source systems, economic models, and the politics of Open Science. Author of ‘The Book Liberation Manifesto’ supporting the FOSS community to make research available to all through platform independent, interoperable publications. He is the Editor-in-Chief at Generation Research an editorial platform for open scholarship for the Leibniz Association Research Alliance Open Science and is based in R&D at the Open Science Lab, TIB – German National Library of Science and Technology. As of 2019 he is a Board Member of FORCE11 an organisation for the future of scholarly communication. He has worked as a research author for the Akademienunion at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften on ‘AGATE’ a research publication for scoping the technical data connection of all of Europe’s Academies of Arts and Science digital repositories. From 2012/15 he led the research unit ‘Publishing Consortium’ as part of the Hybrid Publishing Lab at Leuphana University, Germany. In 1994 he co-founded and published Mute magazine a culture and technology publication, the European counter to Wired magazine, and continues as a member of the editorial collective and as publisher. He originally studied media art at the Slade School, UCL (UK) and CalArts (USA). (2022)

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