Presentation on "The Social Side of Research and Opportunities for LIbrarians" at the Charleston Conference, 2013.

1. The Social Side of Research
and Opportunities for Librarians
Jeffrey Lancaster, Ph.D.
Emerging Technologies Coordinator
Columbia University Libraries
jeffrey.lancaster@columbia.edu
@j_lancaster
Slides – slideshare.net/jeffreylancaster

2. Research is solitary

3. Research is inherently social

4. “Research not
communicated is
research not done”
Prof. Anne Glover, EU Science Advisor

5. ‘Social’ for research can mean:
•
•
•
•
Collaboration
Public Engagement
Public Persona
Professionalization

6. Identify and Facilitate
Communities

7. Scientific Genealogy

8. Erdös Number

9. Networks of Collaboration
Scopus →
Open Refine, Excel →
gephi, d3.js

10. Science@Columbia tumblr
columbiascience.tumblr.com

11. (@columbiascience)

12. Assess and Develop Better
Workflow Management

13. RSS
RSS
=
Really
Simple
Syndica/on
–
a
protocol
to
deliver
content
(e.g.
feed://…)
RSS
Reader
–
a
tool
to
parse
and
format
RSS
content
(e.g.
Feedly)
feed://news.columbia.edu/cu-­‐news/feed

14. ifttt.com – if THIS then THAT
if trigger then action .
if [
post
to
facebook
]
if [
check
in
at
airport
]
if [
RSS
item
starred
]
if [
RSS
item
tagged
]
then [
post
to
twi7er
].
then [
email
Mom
].
then
add
to
[ dra=
post
].
then
add
to
[ googledoc
].

15. ifttt.com – if THIS then THAT
if trigger then action .
if
then
post
to
facebook
if
.
post
to
twi7er
then
check
in
at
airport
if
.
email
Mom
then
RSS
item
starred
if
.
add
to
dra=
post
then
RSS
item
tagged
.
add
to
googledoc

16. ifttt.com – if THIS then THAT
A
good
guide
to
what
apps
you
should
know/use

17. Develop and Support
New Services
within
New Spaces

18. 3D Printing @ Columbia
@CU_SEL
3dprint.cul.columbia.edu

19. github.com

20. Makerspaces
&
Hackerspaces

21. Professional Persona

22. ORCID, ResearcherID, etc.
Unique
iden/fiers
for
researchers
to
cross-­‐reference
publica/ons,
ac/vi/es,
etc.
John
Smith
vs.
J.
Smith
vs.
John
D.
Smith
vs.
J.
D.
Smith
vs.
JD
Smith
vs.
…
Wang
Kim
vs.
W.
Kim
vs.
Kim
Wang
vs.
K.
Wang
…
ResearcherID:
J-­‐6870-­‐2012
ORCID:
0000-­‐0003-­‐0458-­‐2127

23. figshare.com
Share
research
components
to
make
them
discoverable
&
citable;
get
metrics

24. Altmetric(s)
Capture
overall
impact
of
a
publica/on
in
blogs,
tweets,
men/ons,
news,
etc.

25. Open Badges
Micro-­‐creden/alling
for
aMendance,
task
comple/on,
skills,
exper/se,
etc.
openbages.org

26. disqus.com
Commen/ng
for
ANY
website,
w/
metrics,
modera/on,
&
easy
implementa/on

27. Crowdfunding Research
Funding
may
no
longer
rely
upon
the
government.
Interested
communi/es,
engaged
by
social
media
presence,
are
key
to
raising
money
from
the
crowd.

28. Professionalization

29. ‘Social’ for research can mean:
•
•
•
•
Collaboration
Public Engagement
Public Persona
Professionalization

30. The Social Side of Research
and Opportunities for Librarians
Jeffrey Lancaster, Ph.D.
Emerging Technologies Coordinator
Columbia University Libraries
jeffrey.lancaster@columbia.edu
@j_lancaster
Slides – slideshare.net/jeffreylancaster