poster presented at ACTC2012, relating one year experience of the curation tool Scoop it on the topic of Flow cytometry to cytomics

1. SCOOP.IT/Cytomics
ACTC2012 Athens September
• Information overload + more and
more grey literature)
But when there are 200 000 000 tweets per day or more activity on
the web in 60 seconds than you could produce in a whole
life, how to be sure your online strategy is still efficient
• How to surf the internet information wave?
Published papers open source or not....
– Universities: Personal solutions
– Companies: Press reviewing
• University duty: helping colleagues and
students

2. Access to black and white,
and coloured literature...
• Scientific publications
– After Current Contents!
– Publishers databases (Web of
Science, ScienceDirect)
– PubMed
• Patents databases
• Company Websites

3. Grey Literature
since end of 90's,
• Thesis, Reports
• Patents
• Scientific News Magazines (GEN)
• Press releases, Press agencies
• Internet
– Websites, Blogs, Tweets?
– Social networks
(Facebook, Linkedin..)...RSS flux
– So much information... it becomes
grey

4. Connectivism
Connectivism:
a theory of learning based on the premise that
knowledge exists in the world rather than in the head
of an individual
One aspect of connectivism is the use of a network
with nodes and connections as a central metaphor
for learning. In this metaphor, a node is anything that can be
connected to another node within a network such as an
organisation: information, data, feelings, images.
Connectivism sees learning as the process of
creating connections and developing a network.

5. Curation...
.... the process of establishing and developing long term
repositories of digital assets for current and future
reference by researchers, scientists, historians, and
scholars.
Enterprises are starting to utilize digital curation to improve the
quality of information and data within their operational and
strategic processes..
• ..... is expression, action and
passion!

6. Curation tools
• Google news
• Pearltrees, Paper.li, Pinterest, Tumbl
R
• Scoop.it
– Individual (5 topics, 1 curator)
– Educational plan (30 topics, n
curators)
– Business
– Posts proposed by robot, pages found
by curator, posts edited by curator

7. Scoop.it .... CYTOMICS
Is Curation the answer
– Purpose: Knowledge watching
– Material: information on internet
• From « dog manure » to GOLD
digging
– Methods:among other tools
• Choice of Scoop it
– Results: one year experience
– Future: U to B (University to
Business)

8. Topic: From Flow cytometry to Cytomics
(9/12)
http://www.scoop.it/t/from-flow-cytometry-to-cytomics
• Open 10/11
– Actualized almost every day, since
• Up to 200 proposals a day,
– Much Noise but 2-3 % highly specific
posts
• 868 Posts on 35 pages
• 2000 views from 1255 Visitors,
• 17 Followers,
• 45 Reactions, Score 55

9. Subjects covered by topic
Flow cytometry to Cytomics
• Basic, Applied and Medical Science
– Flow cytometry (30%)
– Rare cells detection (CTCs
15%, CECs, CMCs, CMMCs...) 20%
– Technical developments (40%)
• Published papers 20%, Grey literature >70%
• Patents (10%)
• University (40%) vs Companies (50%) (Press
Releases)
• Scientific Meetings (5%)
• CME/CPD (5%)

10. Other topics covered 8/12
by Educational plan
on behalf of ASSIM
• Immunology (open 7/11; 1844 posts, 1983
visitors; 2700 views)
• Mucosal Immunity (open 12/11; 259 posts, 137
vis; 177 views)
• Immunology and biotherapies (DIU) (open
7/12; 400 posts; 94 vis; 136 views)
• Allergy and clinical immunology (DESC) (open
7/12, 57 posts, 37 vis, 48 views
• Hematology (open 7/12, 137 posts, 53 vis, 63 v)
• CME/CPD (open 11/11, 529 posts; 217 vis , 330
views)
• Wuhan, Hubei (open 10/11; 533 posts; 482vis;
1100 views)

11. Science/Knowledge watching
on Scoop it
• A day to day duty for scientists and
researchers like « Walking the dog »
• Scoop it: a virtual space
– to collect and keep highly selected
informations
• As well as others scooped by other
curators in your community
– to find them when required

12. Summary
• Probably the best curation tool on the web
• A virtual scientific news « journal » and
database easy to browse with pictures
• The « Search » function is far better than
evoked
• The human factor of curation is the added
value compared to robots (SEO Search
engine optimization)

13. UtoB (University to Business)
Benefits for a company
Information is selected according to your interets
by specialists of the field
You do not miss specific informations from
scientific or grey literature
You can post specific informations about your own
products to be visible
All the better
If somebody does it for you!
Why not become a partner ?

14. Acknowledgments
on behalf of ASSIM
• GC Faure
• M de Carvalho
• MC Béné
• Wuhan doctorate students (Chen
Min, Cai Huili, Tu Qian)
• Special thanks to Guillaume Decugis
CEO of Scoop.it