The Research 2.0 Concept Model above is an evolution of the Academic Library 2.0 Concept Models developed for my Master's Paper (http://mchabib.com/2006... ). While the original model primarily focused on academic library services for students, the new model focuses on services for researchers. Like in the original models, the top represents communication spaces grounded in physical space, while the bottom mirrors this in the online realm. Two ends of the spectrum are informal communications and formal communications. My argument is that Research 2.0 falls somewhere between these extremes. A full presentation is located here: http://www.slideshare.net/habibmi...
- Michael Habib
The above Scholarly Identity 2.0 Concept Model takes the series of concept models one step farther, but with a slightly different twist. The divide between online and offline scholarly communication is largely meaningless, so has been discarded. The spectrum in this case is more specific with one end being entirely user-generated content and the other traditional scholarly...
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- Michael Habib
Michael - interesting stuff. Do you have that paper you mentioned published by now (blog post is dated mid-2006). I would like to mention some of this in my thesis and cite your publication of course.
- 'Mummi' Thorisson
Thesis located here: http://hdl.handle.net/1901/356 and the title is "Toward Academic Library 2.0: Development and Application of a Library 2.0 Methodology"
- Michael Habib
Claudia - the overall theme is data publication and the role of data standards, federated database networks and digital identity in facilitating/encouraging data sharing. The context is research into correlation between genotype and phenotype, or medical genetics/genomics more generally. Have a look at this review published last year that i co-authored with my supervisor: "Genotype-phenotype databases: challenges and solutions for the post-genomic era" - http://dx.doi.org/10...
- 'Mummi' Thorisson
The second (right) model above on identity is the more interesting of the two. If you are going to look at just one....
- Michael Habib
Interesting social status implications here, especially with the second model. The more robust both sides of the scholar2.0 identity components (UGC + trad), the "deeper" the 2.0 identity (think tag clouds as the metaphor here). Or, perhaps color combos is a better metaphor, with schol.identity2.0 being a mix of UCG (say, "yellow"), trad (say "blue") and combo being "green" -- the shade...
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- Mickey Schafer
The presentation loses something without the voice over, few connections are made. You might be able to recover if you put text slides between the graphics, and pick out one element at a time to elaborate on. The auto-advance feature flicked to the next slide before the previous slide had been fully analyzed. Basically all I got from the presentation was the feeling that there was at least an experimental reference site somewhere called 2collaborate or something, and that Web 2.0 was interactive internet.
- Graeme E. Smith
Thanks for your feedback Graeme. The voice over adds a lot of content, but the slides don't need to show that. You can come watch me speak to fill in the blanks, or read my Master's paper to get a better idea about my thoughts. There might be a video of the talk soon as well.
- Michael Habib
interesting, thanks. Some questions and a comment: Why place journal articles in 'physical' only? there are excellent e-only journals and hence e-only articles. Also, the traditional concept of an 'article' is changing, so, given interactive elements and all, I guess what you call an 'article' may come in a new shape (just consider, e.g., OAI-ORE) and might well move towards what you mark as central affairs of 'Research 2.0'
- Claudia Koltzenburg
nice. I would place Wikipedia further towards formal myself and on a trajectory heading further in that direction. Peer review on WP can be as rigorous and infuriating as any journal. Not always of course but sometimes and becoming more so.
- Cameron Neylon
from fftogo
Thanks for the fast feedback. I am working on blog posts to put the two diagrams into more context. The lines between online/informal/UGC and print/formal/traditional are certainly blurred more than the diagram highlights. It is my hope that by situating items in their traditional orientations on these scales, I can better demonstrate the blurring of those lines to a general audience. I will take all feedback into consideration when preparing a second version.
- Michael Habib
What did you have in mind when you put private sharing as "more formal" than public sharing?
- Mr. Gunn
Not sure now that I look again. I don't think I would put private sharing there anymore
- Michael Habib
This diagram is adapted from a general identity matrix concept pioneered by the founders of http://ClaimID.com/. It is meant to display the different types and components of a researchers identity, with a focus on online identity. The Scholarly Identity 2.0 Concept Model is an attempt to display how these different components fit together.
- Michael Habib
Blog post about displaying Scopus Cited-by Count in DSpace.
- Michael Habib
University library:Exhibitions - Milutin Milankovic - world famous scientist from Belgrade University - virtual exhibition - http://www.unilib.bg.ac.rs/eng...
"We invite you to register for a special series of 65-minute webinars featuring three speakers: a library expert, a senior faculty member and an Elsevier product specialist. Speakers will share their views and insights on the evolving role of peer-reviewed journals and books and how the electronic platforms on which these vital resources are hosted, are also leveraging novel information discovery and retrieval techniques to enhance the research and teaching processes."
- Michael Habib
Innovation Management site from the Faculty of Organizational Sciences Department of Operations Management at the University of Belgrade
- Michael Habib
YouTube video - "Scopus offers a freely accessible author search for everyone who has no access to Scopus. This preview search allows anyone to look up a specific author and check their profile for numbers of documents published, numbers of references, received citations and the h-index and more. This demo also shows you how to provide feedback if you think something is not accurate. Feel free to recommend the URL: www.scopus.com/authoridentifier for free author searching."
- Michael Habib
Poster Gallery for the Institute of Technical Sciences of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. One of the ways that their librarian is highlighting the work of Institute researchers.
- Michael Habib
"Serbian Web Journalism School was founded by Ljubisa Bojic at Serbian Journalist Association. The project was inspired by David Sasaki, outreach director of Global Voices Online, Rebecca MacKinnon, professor of new media at University of Kong Kong, Nino Brajovic, president of Journalist Association of Serbia and Gradimir joksimovic, editor of Viva magazine."
- Michael Habib
nice Habib, I hope you had a good tome in Beograd! Ana
- Ana Ivkovic
Fwd: Facebook for scientists gets millions in funding - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin... (via http://friendfeed.com/habib...) Congratulations to Cornell/Florida/Vivo on their NCRR grant: "The University of Florida, Cornell University and a handful of other schools have been awarded $12.2...
Here's a link to UF's coverage of the event: http://news.ufl.edu/2009... -- I'm curious, though about this: "The new program will draw information about scientists from official, verifiable sources and make it available using a type of technology called the Semantic Web. For example, information about researchers’ positions will come from their employers and a listing of...
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- Mickey Schafer
How is this different from Biomed Experts, SciLink, etc? After seeing the failure of a dozen of these sites, I'm skeptical of the premise that there's real demand for them. You can build all the semantic infrastructure you want, but if people aren't going to use it, then it's a waste.
- Chris Miller
Kind of what I was thinking, too, Chris. But the UF blurb does not address these concerns, so hard to know at this point. Maybe I'll send a message to Sarah Gonzalez tomorrow (one of the UF ref librarians who jump-started the idea) and see if she'll fill me in.
- Mickey Schafer
It really hurts to see money be wasted like this on a platform that doesn't really address the issues plaguing these types of sites that already exist. I think someone needs to be given 12 million to figure out how to get scientists to actually use the technology! (Or code tools we'd like to use ;) )
- Brian Krueger - LabSpaces
Brian: what are the differences between this system under development and tools that might be considered ideal?
- Mike Chelen
Mickey: scientists may be more likely to get involved for those reasons if they result in an effective operation. it is exciting to hear import and export of standard formats being given a priority, yet it may be longer before anyone sees if the process is functional
- Mike Chelen
Chris: anytime someone mentions "facebook for ____ " it seems a little vague and hard to understand what might differentiate the service :D
- Mike Chelen
Reading the press release, it doesn't sound like this platform is going to be any different from biomedexperts. I'm not sure there is an "ideal" system. It's going to be hard to offer every discipline the proper tools and content that will drive users and spawn collaboration. Having worked on my own site for the last 3 years, I've heard many scientists say the last thing they want to do...
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- Brian Krueger - LabSpaces
The question that has to be answered is what is the compelling reason for scientists to trust the people they encounter on "facebook for scientists". Non science social networking is low risk...
- Richard Badge
from Nambu
"The goal of the program is national networking of all scientists," said Michael Conlon, interim director of biomedical informatics for the University of Florida, in a statement. "Scientists have problems finding each other. We often find that researchers have pretty good networks with students or with scientists at institutions where they received their degree or worked before. But...
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- Attila Csordas
I have the same response to hearing this that I imagine many of you would reading a grant proposal that proposes to do an experiment that others have already done and which didn't work, and the results of which aren't cited in the new proposal. They need to address how they're going to work in the face of all these past failures. If their branding strategy is any indication, I'm not sure they're aware of the past failures.
- Mr. Gunn
Mr Gunn nailed it. Where is the strategy for succeeding where so many have failed?
- Bill Hooker
Mr Gunn +3 saving role against hype.
- Paul J. Davis
I would like to point out that the Facebook for Science line is journalists trying to market this to the public rather than the investigators trying to address this groups concerns. I think that phrasing needs to be taken with a grain of salt. That doesn't mean the other criticisms aren't legitimate. I just think it is important to evaluate the project on its own merits rather than public mass market branding of it.
- Michael Habib
One point on how it is different from some other projects. It is NIH funded. I am not aware of any other solutions with such a mandate from the NIH. Second, it is a huge amount of money.to devote to the problem. Neither of these differences directly addresses the concerns expressed, but they are both factors that give this project an edge in potentially addressing the issues.
- Michael Habib
"The University of Florida, Cornell University and a handful of other schools" any people here from those schools funded or know the people funded and can invite them? Would love to hear their angle
- Attila Csordas
I'll be doing a post doc at UF. I think I'll contact the head there and see if they need any help :)
- Brian Krueger - LabSpaces
I am at UF. I have met Sarah G. (one of the initiating reference libs) while doing a guest lecture in her class. But I don't know the other people. We could just forward this discussion to one of the contacts usually listed.
- Mickey Schafer
Michael Habib, I agree with your observation that "facebook for scientists" is journalist-speak. And in terms of explaining things to the UF community, it is a good analogy as my students constantly and consistently categorize social networks as either twitter or facebook.
- Mickey Schafer
I forwarded it to to Mike Conlon at UF. He said he'd take a look at this discussion and also for more information said we should read the RFA http://grants.nih.gov/grants.... The RFA says that it wants the platform to be a federated network distributed by partner institutions, which is novel in the SNfS field. It'll be interesting to see what they come up with.
- Brian Krueger - LabSpaces
Thanks, Brian (or really, should I use some southern-ism, like "Thaaank you, sweetie" which is actually what happens here, especially at places like Waffle House?).
- Mickey Schafer
I think that background just shows how little actual background research was done before proposing this RFA :P
- Brian Krueger - LabSpaces
I wonder if they'll talk to OWW, Epernicus, SciLink, Laboratree, and the dozen other SNfS services out there to import or otherwise leverage all the data that's already been contributed by scientists. I can see it being useful as an aggregator and motivating standardization and data exchange, but would hate to just see it reinvent the square wheel
- Shirley Wu
from twhirl
We have a few author profiles in Scopus as well :)
- Michael Habib
Congratulations to Cornell/Florida/Vivo on their NCRR grant: "The University of Florida, Cornell University and a handful of other schools have been awarded $12.2 million to build a social/collaborative network for scientists and researchers. The idea is to make it easier to find research and like-minded researchers in an effort to speed new discoveries."
- Michael Habib
Um, good for them... but whither the current science social nets?
- Richard Akerman
Very much beginning to think that the "FB for scientists" moniker is not useful going forward.
- carolh
Facebook for science isn't useful. This is the first major initiative that I know of that is backed by the NIH and a boatload of funding. There is another one of these grants being awarded, but I am not sure which team got it yet. It is a huge amount of cash to throw directly at the problem.
- Michael Habib
How many people get research grants funded for $12M for something that's been repeatedly shown not to work? What a waste! Do you think they even know what the problem is that they're throwing money at?
- Mr. Gunn
@MrGunnMy guess would be no. Especially since they're still using the (derogatory) term Facebook for scientists. Someone dropped the ball big time in reviewing the history of these types of sites. Unless they have a model that's completely different and focuses on content, content producers and tools, I don't see it going much further than the current crop of unused sites. Here's to hoping this isn't another 12 million in wasted tax dollars.
- Brian Krueger - LabSpaces
I still think there's room for something like this to work -- it needs to be content-centric as we've learned here on FF/TLS, and I think it also needs some kind of imprimatur to get past the "oh noes 4chan and pr0n do not want" reaction that most scientists seem to have to anything online. Perhaps with the stamp of approval that comes with the Cornell name and solid funding will help. (Obadmission: I wouldn't have spent $12 mil on this either.)
- Bill Hooker
Its like any big funding initiative in these areas. it comes about three years too late. I consulted on a couple of these applications and the ones I saw people seemed to be grappling with the important issues. Remains to be seen whether it turns out anything more than bloatware. Certainly the referees seemed somewhat clueless in a few cases,
- Cameron Neylon
from twhirl
This was one of two grants to be given out for national networking as part of the stimulus package. My guess is it was an arbitrary amount of money because the government had printed a bunch and needed it spent. Whether other projects have been successful or not, begs the question whether this needed stimulating. There was already a health, if not wildly successful, startup industry in...
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- Michael Habib
"That’s the goal of a $12.2 million National Center for Research Resources grant awarded today to the University of Florida and collaborators at Cornell University, Indiana University, Weill Cornell Medical College, Washington University in St. Louis, the Scripps Research Institute and the Ponce School of Medicine in Puerto Rico. The funding stems from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009."
- Michael Habib
"There's a rumor going around the Internet playground that Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) likes Blackboard (Nasdaq: BBBB) . As in, likes it likes it." - I believe the author is starting the rumor if I understand correctly.
- Michael Habib
@mendeley_com The "Last.fm of science" and not previously a premium subscriber?