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Liquid Journals – an approach for knowledge dissemination in the Web era

Marcos Baez, Aliaksandr Birukou, Fabio Casati, Maurizio Marchese and the LiquidPub team

University of Trento, Italy

LiquidPub project

o Small or medium-focused research project funded by the European Commission under FP7 FET OPEN (Future and Emerging Technologies) scheme

o Runs from May 2008 till April 2011

o Budget of 2.1M €

o Partnerso University of Trento, Italy

o Spanish National Research Council, Spain

o Springer, Germany

o Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

o University of Fribourg, Switzerland

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Goal of the LiquidPub project

o Capture the lessons learned and opportunities provided by: o the Web and open source, o agile development

o to develop o concepts, models, metrics, and tools o for an efficient (for people), o effective (for science), o and sustainable (for publishers and the community) o way of creating, disseminating, evaluating, and consuming scientific

knowledge

o Understand what’s good for science, and make it happen

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What do we do in LiquidPub?

o See http://project.liquidpub.org/research-areas o Scientific Knowledge Objectso Research evaluation and peer review analysiso Managing lifecycle of web artifactso Discovering scientific communitieso Licensing and copyright

o Three case studies:o Liquid Journalso Liquid Books (collaborative creation of [not only] teaching material)o Liquid Conferences (platform for interdisciplinary conferences where

invited papers are presented for community discourse)

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Motivating Scenarioo What’s the goal of journals today?

o Select and group related content, after a submission of a paper

o Useful to find content, useful (?) to evaluate

o What’s under the hood?o Print/ship cost money: need to be sure it’s

good before it is published. Only way peer review

o “issues”/volumes needed for printing and organizational reasons

o Probably the best possible model in the pre-web eraScarce resource was printing and distribution

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o The Web has changed the way we get, share, produce and consume scientific content

Internet

The Web Era

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o Also social changes..

ReadersAuthors

How do I get interesting content!How do I make

my work visible!

The Web Era

The scarce resource now is the attention [Huberman]

So much info out there - I’d rather go for known sources!

Reviewers

15 review to do by tomorrow…

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o Original reasons for the current model are gone

(does not necessarily mean current model is still not the best)

o Back to the roots: How to provide interesting content?

datasetspapersblogs

Journals: Revisited

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Liquid journals: Proposal

..already available on the Web, in pre-prints, journals, proceedings, blogs…

...with colleagues, friends, other people working on the same topic…

… to broader community

Let’s see where we are

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Image from http://obychnogo.net/files/images/catch-the-moment-45-2.preview.jpg

Key intuition 1 – evolving network of multifacet objects

Data

Key intuition 2 – It’s subjective!

Key intuition 3 – editing power of the community

Key intuition 4 – readers create knowledge

Key intuition 5 - Diversity

Definition: a liquid journalo Collection of (interesting and relevant) links to scientific resources

(contributions, projects, events, people, …)o LJ do not host content, just link it

o Possibly defined as a query over the Web

o Selected by editors (Possibly based on defined procedures)

o Offered by a publisher

o May change continuously and may have issues (snapshots)

o Users may define relations between resources

Relationship types (examples)

o Temporal (e.g., next_version)

o Representation (e.g., alternative_repr_of)

o Structural (e.g., performed_on, reporting_on)

o Authorship (contributed, edited,…)

Filling journal with content

Step 1

Automatic query over Web

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From iPhone

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From e-mail

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From Google Scholar

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From CiteULike

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From ICaST (published by ICST)

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Other options we envisioned

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o Demos from Share http://is.tm.tue.nl/staff/pvgorp/share/

o Workflows and files from http://www.MyExperiment.org

o Videos: http://VideoLectures.net/, http://redress.lancs.ac.uk/

o Links from Facebook, DBLP, ACM Digital Library, Springerlink

o All those are subject to availability of API and Terms of Use

o From citation snippets

Organizing content

Step 2

Cooking area, sharing and annotating

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You can drop contributions on the dock for putting stuff in the Cooking area or sharing them with your contacts

You define the quick links by dropping journals and users here

Non intrusive and without distracting effects

YOUR TAGSAND

OPINIONS

Adding relations

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Navigation

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RESEARCH LINES AND

REUSE

MULTIPLE FACETS OF

CONTRIBUTION

Publishing journal

Step 3

Making a new issue

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After publishing

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(5 new)

TRADITIONALVS.

NOVEL METRICS

Consuming journals

Step 4

Information about journals I follow, where I appear, etc.

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LJs publishing me

Scientific metrics

UNITN-DB-Group

Authors

Communities

FabioJuan Alejandro

Computer SciencePhysicsBiology

TagsPeer-reviewScientific publ

Sources

Time

SpringerArxiv

Filters

»

LJs I edit

Lifecycle Management

Data integration

My subscriptions

Peer review (5 new)

Scientific metrics (7 new)

Consuming relations

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Sharing with research group

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Project/research group/personal page

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Thematic wikis

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From https://copilosk.fbk.eu/

THIS INFO CAN COME FROM

LIQUID JOURNALS

Social networks

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LJ I edit

LJ I follow

Not just reading…

o Navigating

o Sharing

o Linking and annotating (selfishly)

o Better search and management of info overload

o Knowledge extraction from readers/editors

o Efficient disseminationo Publish what I want, when I want, how I want, then deliver it through the

information pipeso Make evolution of ideas explicito Reuse implicit review that people do anyways when selecting content for their own

purposes

…there are some shortcomings

o Do I get tenure o if my paper appear in a LiquidJournal?o If I am a good editor of an LJ (good content

selector)

o Would people use LJ?o We don’t know yet, but try to develop it so that WE

can use it

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o Readers get interesting and relevant scientific contento Multi-faceted: blogs, papers, datasets, etc..o Peer-reviewed vs. non peer-reviewedo Diverse content

o Authors get real-time dissemination and evaluation o Consider other aspects of research productivity: good selector, good ideas,

good reviewer, incentives for early sharing

o Benefits for editors:o Publish first, then gain acceptance (even if you a student)o Try with new community (e.g. new interdisciplinary area) and see if it really

worth a journal

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…but there are also benefits

Do you want to see it running?Image from http://club.foto.ru/gallery/images/preview/2006/08/30/683761.jpg

Choose

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More

o The LiquidPub project. http://project.liquidpub.org

o Google liquidpub-announce and subscribe if you are interested (VERY low traffic): http://disi.unitn.it/mailman/listinfo/liquidpub-announce

o Or, subscribe to our blog: http://liquidpub.wordpress.com

o Or, follow us on twitter: http://twitter.com/liquidpub

o Participate in our surveys:o Scientific publishing and Web 2.0 - http://tinyurl.com/LPSurvey2010 o Rank scientists (and fight metrics) at http://tinyurl.com/icwesurvey

Ranking Researchers via Peer-Votingo Rank researchers via voting

o 1st Step: conduct surveys to gather votes reflecting the perceived impact of researchers

o 2nd Step: correlate votes with bibliometric indicators of impact using voting-based ranking algorithms

o How to participate: http://tinyurl.com/icwesurvey

2 to 20 minutes (you choose!!!)

Thanks for your attention