15 minute talk at AHRC Digital Transformations Moot, 19th November 2012. This is a shortened and updated version of the

1. Advances in
Digital Scholarship
David De Roure

2. Research “on” the Web
• Web as an infrastructure for research
• Web as a source of data
• Web as a subject of research
• Web of scholarly discourse
Sociotechnical
System

3. ...the imminent flood of
scientific data expected
from the next generation of
experiments, simulations,
sensors and satellites
Tony Hey and Anne Trefethen
Source: CERN, CERN-EX-0712023, http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1203203

5. First
BioEssays,, 26(1):99–105, January 2004
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/fourthparadigm/

6. A Big Picture
e-infrastructure
The Fourth
More machines
Big Data The Future!
Big Compute Quadrant
Conventional Social
online
Computation Networking R&D
More people

7. The Problem

INT. VERSE VERSE BRIDG VERSE BRIDG VERSE O .
E E UT

8. Structural Analysis of Large Amounts of Music Information
23,000 hours of Digital Music
recorded music
Collections Music Information
Retrieval Community
Student-sourced Community
ground truth Software
Supercomputer
Linked Data
Repositories

9. http://musicnet.mspace.fm/blog/music-linked-data-workshop/

10. story arcs and
timey-wimey
stuff

11. PolicyGrid
m Current Nodes
Rural communities
Demonstrators
DE Hubs DAMES d
& Sustainability
ds
Harnessing advances in digital
Social Inclusion
technology and practice to
achieve world-class social highwire NeISS
CQeSS Genesis
s e-Social Science
research with maximum impact m MoSeS
m
Obesity e-Lab ss
HUB
m DReSS Horizon
DE DTCs Creative Industries
Finance
mm
d MiMeG Healthcare Genesis Media
OeSS GeoVUE
mm eStat m d NCRM phase 3
Entertainment m
Web Science
ncrmLifeGuide NCRM phase 2
www.digitalsocialresearch.net

12. Proximity
Sensor
Ambient Light
Sensor
Camera
Microphone
GPS
Accelerometer
Magnetometer
Wifi
Bluetooth
Cellular

13. 2. Web as lens
e.g. onto society
3. Web as artefact

14. The Order of Social Machines
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. Berners-Lee, Weaving the Web, 1999

15. Some Social Machines

16. http://force11.org/

17. method
data

18. Co-Evolution of Research Objects
Packs
ORE
OAI
Workflows
Research Objects
W3C PROV
Computational
Research Objects

19. The Executable Thesis
new data
executable
thesis
PhD Student
new results

20. Digital Methods for New Research

21. david.deroure@oerc.ox.ac.uk
www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/people/dder
www.scilogs.com/eresearch
@dder
http://www.slideshare.net/davidderoure/advances-in-digital-scholarship-moot