Web 2.0 for yourPRE

Develop your Personal Research Environment with Web 2.0

IntroductionWeb 2.0 for the research

The « Research Cycle »

Excerpt from http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/communicating-and-disseminating-research/social-media-guide-researchers

Web 2.0 for research ?

« There is a general belief that research can only be published in academic journals and discussed face-to-face at a conference. That’s why traditional methods of counting and rating research contributions discourage the use of blogs. » http://www.rin.ac.uk/node/1015

Web 2.0 for research ?

« Our study indicates that a majority of researchers are making at least occasional use of one or more web 2.0 tools and services for purposes related to their research: for communicating their work, including work in progress, for developing and sustaining networks and collaborations, or for finding out about what others are doing.

But frequent or intensive use is rare, and some researchers regard blogs, wikis and other novel forms of communication as a waste of time or even dangerous. »

If you build it, will they come? How researchers perceive and use web 2.0http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/communicating-and-disseminating-research/use-and-relevance-web-20-researchers

Web 2.0 for research ?

« Our survey, interviews and case studies all indicate that researchers who use web 2.0 tools and services do not see them as comparable to or substitutes for other channels and means of communication, but as having their own distinctive role for specific purposes and at particular stages of research. And frequent use of one kind of tool does not imply frequent use of others as well. »

If you build it, will they come? How researchers perceive and use web 2.0http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/communicating-and-disseminating-research/use-and-relevance-web-20-researchers

Web 2.0 for research ?

« Our survey indicates … that younger researchers and doctoral students are not over-represented among the most active users of web 2.0 services for scholarly communication purposes, although they are among the more frequent users of social networking services. »

« The findings from all elements of our study suggest that widespread adoption of web 2.0 services by researchers depends on their being intuitive and easy to use, available free at the point of use, and incremental in building upon existing practices. Above all, they must offer both clear advantages to users and near zero adoption costs. »

If you build it, will they come? How researchers perceive and use web 2.0http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/communicating-and-disseminating-research/use-and-relevance-web-20-researchers

Web 2.0 & the research cycle

Social media offer opportunities to leverage the research cycle

Personal Research Environment

Personal Research Network

Why not Web 2.0 ?

Risks & drawbacks

Others ????

Why Web 2.0 ? Potentialities

Facilitate

Others ???

Why not (not Web 2.0)

As long as you are aware of the risks You can define your own strategy to avoid or

attenuate them

The Web 2.0 space

The Web 2.0 space

• Search• Curate• Filter

• Content

• Communicate • Recommendation

Knowledge

collaboration

sharing

communityIdentificati

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Creation

Quality assurance

Dissemination

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