UEMS Reviewers Meeting, Brussels, July 5th 2013 keeping abreast of scientific information a new curation tool

1. SCOOP.IT/CMECPD
UEMS2013 July Brussels
• Keeping abreast of information
– Information overload + more and
more grey literature)
• On CME/CPD
• With SCOOP.IT
• A New curation tool
(no conflict of interest with
developper!)
• GC FAURE, MD, PhD
• On behalf of ASSIM (college of Imm.

2. Once upon a time..
• Keeping abreast of scientific
information...
– Was using Current Contents!
Nowadays the world has changed
– But curation appeared recently on
stage, on top of SEO (search engine
optimization) s
• And What do you do, when you are
not a professional of a field?

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. 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!
• A recent concept

5. Curation tools
• Google news
• Pearltrees, Paper.li, Pinterest,
TumblR
• 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

6. Scoop.it ....
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
– Not just another social
network!
– Future: U to B (University to Business)

7. Immunology topics covered 7/13
by Educational plan
on behalf of ASSIM
• Immunology (open 7/11; 2863 posts, 4408
visitors; 6300 views)
• Mucosal Immunity (open 12/11; 643 posts, 685
visitors; 1000 views)
諀 Flow cytometry to cytomics (open 10/11; 1769
posts, 2646 visitors, 4500 views)
• Immunology and biotherapies (DIU) (open
7/12; 2026 posts; 1223 vis; 2000 views)
• Allergy and clinical immunology (DESC) (open
7/12, 356 posts, 387 vis, 570 views
• Autoimmunity (open 10/12; 413 posts; 178 vis;
413 views)

8. Topic: CME/CPD (06/13)
http://www.scoop.it/t/cme-cpd
• Open Nov 18/11
– Actualized almost every day, ever since
• Up to 200 proposals a day,
– Much Noise: 2-3 % highly specific
posts
• 948 Posts on 38 pages
• 1300 views from 722 Visitors,
• 5 Followers,
• 1744 Reactions,
• Score 28, Return index 1.85

9. Content
• Keywords
– continuous medical education, UEMS, EACCME,
AMA, e-learning, life long learning
• Posts and Feelings
– UEMS (id), EACCME (27 scoops)
– Europe: cardiology, rheumatology, oncology,
haematology...
– MOOCs
– E-learning in Africa
– CPD (?) in the USA, AMA

10. Science/Knowledge watching
on Scoop it (Share ideas that
matters)
• A day to day duty for scientists and
researchers like « Walking the dog »
• Scoop it: a virtual space
– Not just another social network (tweeter,
blogs, linkedin...)
– to collect and keep highly selected
informations
• As well as others scooped by other
curators in your community
– to find them when required

11. 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)

12. 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