AAAS 2014: How the Web Changes Collaboration
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The document discusses how social tools and networks can enable more collaboration in research. It argues that while industries like music initially resisted the internet, networks ultimately provided new ways to discover and access content that users want. Similarly, blogging changed communication and professional media still exists online. The document advocates applying lessons from other online domains to scholarly communication by better utilizing the web for research collaboration and discovery through open infrastructure and aggregating research data in the cloud. This would allow new forms of recommendation and discovery beyond traditional websites.
AAAS 2014: How the Web Changes Collaboration
- 1. Social Tools for Serious Science William Gunn, Ph.D. Head of Academic Outreach Mendeley @mrgunn
- 2. Enabling Collaboration in a Networked World • The Web is transformative • Modern research requires collaboration • Networks, not destinations
- 3. A historical perspective https://secure.flickr.com/photos/photophilde/3553606749/
- 4. Change and Disruption • The music industry was first • futile resistance • worst fears not confirmed • providing a product very many people want is in fact quite sustainable • The Web changed discovery and delivery
- 5. More Change and Disruption • Blogging changed how we communicated • Professional media organizations still exist • A service that gives people what they want is a quite sustainable business model • The Web changed engagement
- 6. Authors Publishers Pochoda, Phil. "The big one: The epistemic system break in scholarly monograph publishing." new media & society 15.3 (2013): 359-378. Printers Shippers Booksellers Readers
- 7. Authors Publishers Pochoda, Phil. "The big one: The epistemic system break in scholarly monograph publishing." new media & society 15.3 (2013): 359-378. Printers Shippers Booksellers Readers 1770
- 10. Social Networks Opportunities for discovery Opportunities for building relationships
- 11. Adams, Jonathan. "Collaborations: the fourth age of research." Nature 497.7451 (2013): 557-560.
- 12. King, Christopher (2012) Thomson Reuters Annual Report http://ar.thomsonreuters.com/_files/pdf/MultiauthorPapers_ChrisKing.pdf
- 19. • The Web is being underutilized in research • research increasingly requires more collaboration. https://secure.flickr.com/photos/stuckincustoms/211239773/
- 20. From consumer to provider • Can we bring tools and user experience from other parts of the web to scholarly communication? • People expect to easily share and discover music and photos, why not academic papers? https://secure.flickr.com/photos/psd/2731067095/
- 21. Leveraging the Web requires an open infrastructure • HTML: open standard • TCP/IP: open standard • Wordpress: open source, open API • Twitter: open source, open API • Google Scholar: Not open • Facebook: Not open
- 22. Networks, not destinations • Not a website for scientists • Scientists, on the web
- 23. ...and aggregates research data in the cloud Install Mendeley Desktop Mendeley extracts research data… Collecting rich signals from domain experts.
- 24. Read papers + keep track of notes 470M documents
- 25. Connecting researchers Search Read Annotate Organize Import Write
- 26. 2.7M researchers
- 28. New forms of discovery • Mendeley Suggest – personalized recommendations based on reading history • related articles – relatedness based on document similarity • recommender frameworks – implement recommendations as a service • third-party recommender services – serve niche audiences
- 29. We are publishing this data to the LOD cloud http://code-research.eu/
- 30. What would people build if they could get the data? • Impact Story – get credit for all your work • PLOS ALM – article-level metrics for papers • Plum Analytics – bespoke analytics for libraries • Altmetric.com – altmetrics for publishers. (from Digital Science/NPG)