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Virtual Research Networks
TowardsResearch 2.0?
VREs?
UserWorkflowNetwork
outline
Virtual?Research 2.0
Science Networks
Libraries?
e x p l o r eResearch Networks
Engage, Facilitate & Stimulate
Me, My Work and the UMCG
http://www.flickr.com/photos/44666479@N00/23435416/sizes/o/
Library Disconnects
&
Bypassing the Library
Photo: Geir Mogen http://www.ntnu.no/gemini/2009_autumn/pictures/feat_on_track.jpg
The User Environment
Source: Lorcan Dempsey, Liber 2005
“Into the User Environment”
• Browser Toolbars• Tailor-made search & news widgets• Using personal startpages• Take-Away Library Toolbox : Netvibes
Universe
The workflow
Photo: Geir Mogen http://www.ntnu.no/gemini/2009_autumn/pictures/feat_on_track.jpg
libraryConsumer environmentsManagement environment
LicensedBought
Faculty&studentsDigitized Aggregations
Resource sharing
…
Institutional WorkflowPortals, CMS, IR, …
PersonalWorkflowRSS, toolbars, ..
Network level workflowGoogle, …
Integratedlocal consumer environment?Library web presenceResource sharing, …
Integratedlocal consumer environment?Library web presenceResource sharing, …
Source: Lorcan Dempsey, CIC 2007
Fill in Your Key Stakeholders …
Diversity
Format
Platform
Time
Personalize
Research
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/chm/events/shaw2009/research/
The Global Environment Changed …The web has become a
global laboratory for communication and sharing
http://www.slideshare.net/CameronNeylon/science-in-the-youtube-age-519472
What are Researchers looking for on the Web?
• Tools for improving their workflow, to gain efficiency
• Communication, sharing, collaboration, dissemination research ideas and output
• to possibly get bigger recognition and reward of their research output
Tools for collaboration out there
• Planning & Admin • Workflow• Data management • Communication • Sharing• Analysis, statistical• Publishing, (peer) reviewing• Preservation, archiving
Unlimited …
http://www.go2web20.net/
Research 2.0 : some aspects
Communities & collaboration powered by web 2.0Resources: creating, storing, organising, sharing,
exchange, distribution, browsing, searching, re-use, enrich, re-create
Faster, more efficient, greater competetiveness, repeatable, more productive …
Enables open feedback and reviews of workA machine-understandable format allows others to
take the data and analyze it independently
Scientists are certainly looking for it…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/inan/2398401833/sizes/o/
General Social Software
• Blogs, Wiki’s, Social Networks i.g.Facebook
• Web-based office tools, Google Docs• Sharing data, references, pictures, videos • Communication, in all sorts• Twitter? PloS • Virtual worlds,
Second Life
Virtual Worlds
Strong in visualization, education, teaching, simulation, roleplay ánd worldwide collaborative projects
http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/papers/cgat08/figure_ds.jpg
Preprocessed spherical projections from inside a crystal including the Hershfield surface.
http://secondlife.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1YuRSyzBAE
So they are out there, but doing WHAT exactly?
OpenWetWare
http://openwetw
are.org/wiki/Labs
By Scientists, for Scientists
http://sciencecomm
ons.org/
NeuroCommons
But we also see others offering services…
All kinds of parties explore, using web 2.0 and other new technologies
to connect and integrate into the workflow of scientist and researchers.
Commercially, focus on Scientists
NaturePrecedings
http://precedings.nature.com/
Biomedexperts
http://ww
w.biom
edexperts.com
http://seedmagazine.com/images/uploads/15Sci08368.jpg
“Community is the new content”
http://www.geozon.info/2010/04/15/comparison-chart-of-scientific-networks/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=ping.fm
'What is happening in the world is bypassing university libraries’
Professor Peter Murray-Rust
Reasons NOT to ignore Social Networks and the tools offered
• Efficiency possibilities • Build professional communities
– Research – Management
• Build learning communities • Build sharing communities• Build community support through
outreach
Online Social Networks in Healthcare & LibrariesPF Anderson, Emerging Technologies Librarian, Health Sciences Libraries, [email protected]
More Reasons ….
• Connection, communication, collaboration, consultation
• Discuss & share information (articles, photos, videos, cases, data, methodologies)
• Q&A, rapid response (sometimes), serendipitous discovery
• Global, international connections & opportunities• Find employment & research opportunities• Emerging trends, topics, medications, treatments,
insights in your field
Online Social Networks in Healthcare & LibrariesPF Anderson, Emerging Technologies Librarian, Health Sciences Libraries, [email protected]
Do we see the libraries look for it as well?
• The question is not whether the shift is going to happen, but how fast?
• It will change the behaviour of researcher, new ways of thinking and operating; we should adapt
There are the Virtual Research Environments (VREs)
• JISC VRE• MS Sharepoint• MyExperiment• D4Science• DARIAH
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/vre.aspx
VLEs for Students & TeachersVREs for Researchers
Simple VRE Definition
A VRE helps researchers from all disciplines to work collaboratively by managing the increasingly complex range of tasks involved in carrying out research.
Complex VRE Definition
The concept of a VRE is evolving.
… as shorthand for the tools and technologies needed by researchers to do their research, interact with other researchers (who may come from different disciplines, institutions or even countries) and to make use of resources and technical infrastructures available both locally and (inter)nationally
frameworks
to define and help to develop VRE frameworks and associated standards, and to encourage the development and population of these frameworks with applications, services and resources to create VREs appropriate to particular needs
Key recommendations
“Scratch Where It Itches”
• Bottom-up &• focus on
researchers needs and specific research communities
• Community building projects rather than technology project
• Creating a VRE is a SOCIAL as much as a technical achievement
• Broad Research community effort• Including managers, librarians,
champions, promoters
• Sustainability• Key role for libraries• Preference for a Web 2.0 style of
development and implementation(lightwight, customisable solutions)
• Needs to be driven by researchers, rather than being imposed by institution
Benefits
faster research resultsnovel research directions
Key findings
• Providing general VRE Frameworks• One-size-fits-all will not work• Awareness raising is desirable• UK seen as international leader in VRE
development• External (web) applications still important• Integration semantic web technology useful• On-location support
FOR LIBRARIES
• VREs are seen are good way to feature library resources
• Be involved in the creating of digital research output from the start
while the teaching community regards the library as a partner,the research community tends to“do things by itself”
Brown and Swan, 2007
Case Studies
• DFG VRE Programme• ReInfra (Norway, Grid)• Science Gateways (Grid, supercomputing)• SURFshare (NL)• TGA Adonis (France)
Summary (more key points for Libraries)
• Communication between researchers and librarians
• Play a role in the exchange and sharing of research-based information in social network technologies
• Re-define the library, services, it’s systems, to reach: Visibility, Findability, Searchability and Accessibility
• Branding and marketing the library: embed & integrate
• Libraries should collaborate, communicate, cooperate, facilitate, support learning & research
Strategical Implications• Developing the supporting infrastructure for
– Creation– Data management– Communication
• Re-focus policyStaff development & expertiseSoft-, hardware choice
• By collaboration and partnership with other organizational parties, but also externally
• Collaborative libraries
http://scienceroll.com/2008/05/24/community-sites-for-scientists-and-physicians-the-list/
Engage, Facilitate & Stimulate“Build Networks Together”
“Libraries alone can not change the workflow,
just add to it”
Breaking News: Create Expert Community
• North Carolina universities opt for Collexis and Scopus to create expert community - 13 Apr 2010
http://www.knowledgespeak.com/newsArchieveviewdtl.asp?pickUpID=10011&pickUpBatch=1411#10011
-There is a “battle” going on for the Scientists -
“They” got their work and data, now “they” want the people as well ..
We should be there first!“
Thank you for your attention!
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