This document summarizes Herbert Van de Sompel's talk on deconstructing and decentralizing scholarly communication. The talk explored technical approaches like dokie.li and sloph that use decentralized web standards to publish, review, and track scholarly works and activities. It also discussed open challenges in applying these approaches to fulfill the core functions of scholarly communication like registration, certification, and archiving in a decentralized manner. The talk provided examples of how a personal web observatory like sloph could automatically track a researcher's scholarly activities and artifacts across the web.