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Social Technologies(Web 2.0) for
Informatics & Research
Patricia F. Anderson<[email protected]>
UM Health Sciences LibrariesNovember 28, 2007© 2007 Regents of the
University of Michigan. All rights reserved.
Outline
• Background: Social tech and scholarly publication
• What are social technologies?• Professional social communities• Informatics in general social tech tools• Informatics & research 2.0
– Open science• Social tech for research• Crowdsourcing• Potential concerns• Case study
Social Tech and Scholarly Publication
• University of Washington Libraries: Scientific Publication Cycle <http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/environment/imt220/pubcycle.jpg>
Social Tech andScholarly Publication
• Publishing without the academic infrastructure?
• Problematic
Social Tech andScholarly Publication
• Publication 200 years ago– Soapbox model
• Say what you want to say• If you have the money to print it
• Copyright 200 years ago– Nurtured the creative process– Facilitated connection between the creator and the
consumer
Social Tech andScholarly Publication
• Scholarly publication 50 years ago– Peer review– Publisher driven
• Copyright 50 years ago– Purpose of copyright inverted
• ‘Feeds’ the publisher and middle man• Creative process driven by tenure and grants
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Social Tech andScholarly Publication
• Via the web and social tech, we are returning to our beginnings
Graphic: Interarchive
Social Tech andScholarly Publication
• Interarchive.org
Social Tech andScholarly Publication
• What will drive scholarly publication?• Recognition metrics
What Social TechnologiesAre All About
• Collaboration & community– Who are your people?– Who do you want to tell what?– Who do you want information from?
Tim O’Reilly on Web 2.0
• Slide from his talk, one week ago, in Europe
• How did I get it?• Social tech --
Slideshare• http://www.slidesha
re.net/adunne/what-is-web-20-157107/
Social Technologies Are …
• “Essentially, the Web is shifting from an international library of interlinked pages to an information ecosystem, where data circulate like nutrients in a rain forest.”– Johnson, Steven. “Emerging Technology:
Software upgrades promise to turn the Internet into a lush rain forest of information teeming with new life.” Discover Magazine 10.24.2005
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Social Technologies Are …
• Web 2.0• Social tech• Social media• Social computing• Social networking• Relationship media
Social Technologies Are …
• Example Types:– Blogs– Citation Sharing– Collaboratories– Email Groups– Forums– Social Bookmarking– Wikis
• Example Tools:– Del.icio.us– Facebook– Flickr– Second Life– Slideshare– Twitter– YouTube
Professional Organizations as Communities
• Example: IADMFR
Professional Organizations as Communities
• Member forums, newsletters, meetings, etc.
Professional Organizations as Communities
• Email lists for professional community
Professional Organizations as Communities
• Discussion topics and image sharing
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Informatics in General Social Tech Tools: Sharing
• Social bookmarking
Informatics in General Social Tech Tools: Sharing
• Microblogging: Twitter
Informatics in General Social Tech Tools: Sharing
• Image sharing: Flickr
Informatics in General Social Tech Tools: Sharing
• Video sharing:Youtube
Informatics in General Social Tech Tools: Communities
• Facebook: Group: Health Informatics
Informatics in General Social Tech Tools: Communities
• Facebook: Group: Informatics Forum
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Informatics in General Social Tech Tools: Communities
• Informatics groups in Second Life
Informatics in General Social Tech Tools: Collaboration
• Nanotechnology Island in Second Life
Informatics in General Social Tech Tools: Collaboration
• Wikipedia: Dental informatics
Informatics in General Social Tech Tools: Collaboration
• Wikipedia: Dental informatics (stub)
Informatics in General Social Tech Tools: Collaboration
• How did I build this graphic?
• With an online mindmapping tool
• It also makes flowcharts• I can share the picture with
my team• I can allow them to make
suggestions and edit it.
Informatics & Research 2.0
• Social bookmarking: 2collab, from Elsevier
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Informatics & Research 2.0
• Social bookmarking– CiteULike
Informatics & Research 2.0
• Social bookmarking– Connotea, from Nature
Informatics & Research 2.0
• Social bookmarking: Digg
Informatics & Research 2.0: Blogs
• Method: http://science.blogdig.net/• MORE:
http://www.slideshare.net/umhealthscienceslibraries/staying-current-with-science-blogs-wikis/
Informatics & Research 2.0: Blogs Plus
• SEED: http://seedmagazine.com
Informatics & Research 2.0: Blogs Plus
• Nature: Nascent: Web 2.0 in Science
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Informatics & Research 2.0: Blog Communities
• My Biotech Life: The DNA Network hits 25
Informatics & Research 2.0: Wikis
• Fred Hutchinson Computational Proteomics Laboratory (CPL) Proteomics Repository: https://proteomics.fhcrc.org/CPAS/Project/home/home.view
Informatics & Research 2.0: Wikis
• Open Wetware: http://openwetware.org/wiki/Main_Page
Informatics & Research 2.0: Wikis
• Proteome Commons: http://www.proteomecommons.org/archive.jsp
Informatics & Research
2.0: Research
Collaboration
Informatics & Research 2.0: Communities
• Social networking: nanohub
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Informatics & Research 2.0: Communities
• Social networking: Fq(x) community
Informatics & Research 2.0: Communities
• Social networking: Science Commons
About Open and Closed Science
TraditionalLab Notebook(unpublished)
TraditionalJournal Article
Open Access Journal Article
Open Notebook Science (full transparency)
CLOSED
OPEN
Slide from Jean-Claude Bradley, Open Notebook Science & Malaria, September 6, 2007
About Open and Closed Science
• Gunther Eysenbach: Citation Advantage of Open Access Articles. PLoS Biology
Open Science - Proposal
• Science in the open: E-Science for Open Science
Open Science
• An Experiment in Open Notebook Science - Sortase Mediated Protein-DNA Ligation
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Open Science
• Useful Chemistry (blog): Definitions in Open Science SFLO Transcript
Open Science
• Open Notebook projects, from the Useful Chem Wiki
Social Tech for Research
• Research happens– Pubmed article list for Web 2.0
• MN Boulos on Second Life in medical and health education
• IS Yang on Infectious Disease Biomarker Database with Web 2.0 elements
Social Tech for Research• Research happens
– Pubmed: (myspace OR facebook OR del.icio.us OR youtube OR flickr OR twitter OR "social technology" OR "second life" OR "web 2.0")= 72 results
– Google Scholar: (myspace OR facebook OR del.icio.us OR youtube OR flickr OR twitter OR "social technology" OR "second life" OR "web 2.0") (~health OR healthcare OR ehealth OR ~medicine OR ~surgery OR ~clinical OR treatment OR epidemiology OR prognosis OR ~infectious OR therapy OR psychology OR psychiatry OR physician OR ~informatics OR nursing OR "evidence based")= 31,500 results
– <http://del.icio.us/rosefirerising/websearch+health2.0>
Social Tech for Research
• Ethnicity’s Role in Social Networking
Social Tech for Research
• Envisioning feelings on the web
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Social Tech for Research
• Virtual epidemics in Lancet
Social Tech for Research
• Virtual epidemiology
Social Tech for Research
• Presenccia: Research encompassing sensory enhancement, neuroscience, cerebral-computer interfaces and applications
Social Tech for Research
• Presence and Interaction in Mixed-Reality Environment (10th, 2007)– “Current virtual and augmented realtiy environments try to provide
the best realism, while it is simply taken for granted that this leads to the best user=experience. Practice shows that this is not true: users do not easily feel fully engaged in high-tech VR worlds. On the other hand they can feel extremely present in simpler environments, like when chatting on line or when reading a book.The feeling of being there, in other words, is the result of a complex interation of many technological, contextual, biological, cognitive and personal factors, among others.”
Social Tech for Research
• NewScientistTech: Anti-social bot invades Second Lifers’ personal space
Crowdsourcing: What is it?
• Getting people to volunteer information or resources that you need for your research, with no cost or harm to them
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Crowdsourcing: What is it?
• Using data for research that other people create and make available freely
Crowdsourcing: What is it?
• Crowdsourcing: Tracking the rise of the amateur
Crowdsourcing: Examples: General
• Audobon Christmas Bird Count
Crowdsourcing: Examples: General
• eBird
Crowdsourcing: Everyone: General
• ClimatePrediction.net
Crowdsourcing: Examples: General
• The Future Place Blog: Red Lake Crowdsourcing Case Study
• UnlockTheValue.com
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Crowdsourcing: Examples: General
• NASA: Clickworkers
Crowdsourcing: Examples: General
• OpenStreetMap
Crowdsourcing: Examples: General
• USGS Did You Feel It
Crowdsourcing: Examples: Corporate
• Amazon Mechanical Turk
Crowdsourcing: Examples: Corporate
• IBM: Many Eyes
Crowdsourcing: Examples: Corporate
• innocentive
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Crowdsourcing: Health
• Using Facebook to trace public health concerns
• What else could you track this way?
Crowdsourcing: Health
• Geni: Create your family tree• Could you use this to track the historical
incidence and genetics of health conditions in the general population?
Crowdsourcing: Health
• Houston Chronical Special Report: In Harm’s Way
• Tracking toxic chemicals in the water supply by havingresidents test their own water
Crowdsourcing: Health
• World Community Grid: Help Conquer Cancer– Like SETI and Stardust @ Home, uses
computing cycles
Crowdsourcing: Health
• MedHelp.org• What questions do people ask?
Questioning behavior studies.
Crowdsourcing: Health
• Organized Wisdom• What resources are considered quality
by general public?
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Crowdsourcing: Health
• Who is Sick?– Condition tracking– Epidemiology and public health
Crowdsourcing: Health
• Who is Sick?– Condition tracking– Epidemiology and public health
Crowdsourcing: Health
• SLHealthy wiki
Crowdsourcing: Peers
• Chemmunity– “an experiment to see whether the internet
and Web 2.0 technologies can facilitate a global collaboration to solve interesting and novel chemistry questions”
Crowdsourcing: Peers
• Bioforge
Convergence in Social Tech
• Medicine and Web 2.0 @ SciFoo live on (Second Life)– Blogs– Podcasts– Social e-communities– Second Life– Wikis
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Potential Problems
• eHealthRisk Wiki
Potential Problems
• The Register: Scientists shun Web 2.0– Why?– Generational
dynamics?– Comfort with
adopting tech innovations?
– Lack of perceived relevance?
– ?????
Potential Problems
• Adoption• Skepticism• Integrity• Authority• Version control• Hackers• Engagement• Durability
Solutions? More about Social Tech and Publication Models
• arXiv.org - the killer app for science social technologies
Solutions? More about Social Tech and Publication Models
• An American Physics Student in England: If Digg (or Reddit) ran the arXiv
Solutions? More about Social Tech and Publication Models
• An American Physics Student in England: If Digg (or Reddit) ran the arXiv
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Solutions? More about Social Tech and Publication Models
• An American Physics Student in England: If Digg (or Reddit) ran the arXiv
Solutions? More about Social Tech and Publication Models
• An American Physics Student in England: If Amazon ran the arXiv
Solutions? More about Social Tech and Publication Models
• An American Physics Student in England: If Amazon ran the arXiv
Solutions? More about Social Tech and Publication Models
• An American Physics Student in England: If Google ran the arXiv
More
• Links to these resources and more:– http://del.icio.us/rosefirerising/science2.0/
• More podcasts:– http://www.dentalinformatics.com– http://www.dent.umich.edu/informatics/bootcamp/– http://www.lib.umich.edu/hsl/podcasts/
• More slide presentations:– http://www.slideshare.net/umhealthscienceslibrari
es/slideshows/
Questions?
– Contact: Patricia Anderson at [email protected]