e-research 2.0: taking the measure of web 2.0 in e-research
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Paper presented at Oxford e-Research 08, Sept 11-13, 2008.TRANSCRIPT
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e-Research 2.0Taking the measure of Web 2.0 in e-Research
Eric T. Meyer, Lucy Power, Ralph Schroeder
discussing work of theOxford e-Social Science (OeSS) Node of NCeSS
Oxford Internet InstituteUniversity of Oxford
Oxford e-Social Science Project
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Overview
• Science 2.0/Open Science• GeoVue• JOVE• Science Blogging• The Pynchon Wiki• Science 2.0 and e-Research
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Open Science / Science 2.0
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Open Science / Science 2.0
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GeoVUE
Virtual London
Image Source: Hudson-Smith, Digital Urban Blog at http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2007/08/ordnance-survey-and-google-statements.html
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GeoVUE
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MapTube
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JOVE Characteristics
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Geographic Distribution
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Geographic Distribution
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Science Blogging
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Science Blogging
Coding ScienceBlogs Postgenomic Researchblogging Totals
News 24 24% 66 49% 46 46% 136 41%
Academic 26 26% 31 23% 16 16% 73 22%
Academia 5 5% 7 5% 11 11% 23 7%
Own work 5 5% 2 1% 10 10% 17 5%
Blog response 14 14% 24 18% 8 8% 46 14%
Other 2 2% 4 3% 3 3% 9 3%
Photo-Multimedia 24 24% 1 1% 6 6% 31 9%
# of posts 100 135 100 335 100%
Scienceblogs.com Researchblogging.orgPostgenomic.org
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The Pynchon Wiki
• A Wiki for annotating a contemporary American novel• A 1085 page novel is annotated between November
2006 and early 2007• The equivalent single author annotation in book form
takes longer than a decade• A flexible, highly motivating, distributed collaborative
effort – a model for other forms of online collaboration?
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The Pynchon Wiki
• A notoriously reclusive novelist;
• Author of– Gravity’s Rainbow,
annotated in book form– Against the Day,
annotated in Wiki form– Arcana integral to story-
lines
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The Pynchon Wiki:Charting Pynchon Online Activity
Community Acitivity
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Pynchon- l mailinglist messages Against the day Wiki edits
Anticipation
Annotation
And what’s next?
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Weisenburger vs. the Wiki on Pynchon
Comparison of book and wiki annotation efforts
Annotation Size
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Book Form Annotation: Weisenburger’s
Gravity’s Rainbow162000 904 1 (22)
Wiki: Against the Day
455057 120 + 1358 + 4067
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The Pynchon Wiki:Wiki Edits over Time
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The Pynchon Wiki
• A race to finish the ‘detective work’• Encouraging amateur contribution and learning from
other contributors• A model for self-organized collaboration?• ‘Finalization’ of reference work or endless discussion?• Reshaping how scholarly resources are distributed,
and how we collaborate
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Science 2.0 and e-Research
• Technology affordances for generativity– Generativity in this context includes content creation, flexible
use, accessibility, ability to distribute• Institutional ties are generally weakened• Enhancing existing information and behavioural patterns
or building analogues is much easier than expecting profound changes in outlook and behaviour– Easier to hook into existing communities in ways they
understand to make their work easier, better, faster, cooler, more accessible, more widely distributed, more measurable, more sharable, more collaborative, more community-oriented
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• Ability to generate research materials towards a shared resource on the side of input
• Output is online, accessible and open to revision or more input
• Off-the-shelf technology is used and only informal ‘institutions’ are generated or involved
• Contributions, technology and dissemination are thus bottom-up and ‘open’, including outside academia
Science 2.0 and e-Research
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Science 2.0 and e-Research Outlook:
Benefits and Challenges• Bottom-up driven e-
Research generated by user needs
• Large-scale involvement by research communities, including non-academics
• ‘Open’ research, harnessing the ‘wealth of networks’ (user-generated content)
• Lack of recognition for tool development and contributions to resources
• Blurring boundaries between science and non-science and lack of quality control
• Diffuseness of ‘research’, visibility in the midst of attention deluge
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Oxford e-Social Science (OeSS) Node of NCeSS
@ Oxford Internet InstituteUniversity of Oxford
Eric T. MeyerResearch Fellow
[email protected]://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/meyer
Lucy PowerDPhil Student
[email protected]://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/power/
Ralph SchroederJames Martin Research [email protected]
http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/schroeder
Oxford e-Social Science Project