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Emerging and disruptive technologies shaping the future: Social Machines
David De Roure
e-Research Centre, University of Oxford@dder
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/3357073.stm
Edwards, P. N., et al. (2013) Knowledge Infrastructures: Intellectual Frameworks and Research Challenges. Ann Arbor: Deep Blue. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/97552
The Big Picture
More people
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Big DataBig Compute
Conventional Computation
“Big Social”Social Networks
e-infrastructure
onlineR&D
SocialMachines
deeplyaboutsociety
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Real life is and must be full of all kinds of social constraint – the very processes from which society arises. Computers can help if we use them to create abstract social machines on the Web: processes in which the people do the creative work and the machine does the administration... The stage is set for an evolutionary growth of new social engines. The ability to create new forms of social process would be given to the world at large, and development would be rapid. Berners-Lee, Weaving the Web, 1999 (pp.
172–175)
Social Machines
SOCIAM: The Theory and Practice of Social Machines is funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) under grant number EPJ017728/1 and comprises the Universities of Southampton, Oxford and Edinburgh. See sociam.org
Scientists
TalkForum
ImageClassification
data reduction
Citizen Scientists
Nigel Shadbolt et al
The Web Observatory
Tiropanis, T., Hall, W., Shadbolt, N., De Roure, D., Contractor, N., and Hendler, J. The web
science observatory. IEEE Intelligent Systems 28, 2 (2013), 100–104.
F i r s t
Pip Willcox
@marstonbikepath
Datasets or dataflows?
A revolutionary idea…Open Science!
rstl.royalsocietypublishing.org
Join the W3C Community Group www.w3.org/community/rosc
Jun Zhao
www.researchobject.org
The R Dimensions
Research Objects facilitate research that is reproducible, repeatable, replicable, reusable, referenceable, retrievable, reviewable, replayable, re-interpretable, reprocessable, recomposable, reconstructable, repurposable, reliable, respectful, reputable, revealable, recoverable, restorable, reparable, refreshable?”
@dder 14 April 2014
sci method
access
understand
new use
social
curation
Research Object
Principles
Big data elephant versus sense-making network?
The challenge is to foster the co-constituted socio-technical system on the right i.e. a computationally-enabled sense-making network of expertise, data, models, software, visualisations and narratives
Iain Buchan
• Technology doesn’t disrupt – people do disruptive things with it
• People are increasingly empowered to do this. Think about Social Machines meets Internet of Things.
• Research practice is changing – are our processes of research and scholarship fundamentally limiting and are they due for disruption?
• Risks and ethics of automation, of burning paradigms into the infrastructure. Always ask hard questions.
Take home messages
[email protected]/people/dder
@dder
SOCIAM: The Theory and Practice of Social Machines is funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) under grant number EPJ017728/1 and comprises the Universities of Southampton, Oxford and Edinburgh. See sociam.org
Slide and image credits: Iain Buchan, Nigel Shadbolt, Pip Willcox.
