Yuwei Lin presented on Research 2.0 at the University of Manchester on March 12, 2008. The presentation introduced Web 2.0 technologies like blogging, social networking, and wikis. It provided an overview of Research 2.0, which uses these technologies to enable multidisciplinary collaboration, sharing of resources, and maintaining relationships. Some challenges discussed included privacy, intellectual property rights, communication barriers, data integration issues, and developing trust and organizational structures in online research communities. Potential socio-technical solutions to these challenges were also examined.
1. Research 2.0
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Yuwei Lin
National Centre for e-Social Science
University of Manchester
http://www.ncess.ac.uk
2. In the next 20 minutes, I will...
Introduce Web 2.0 briefly
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Provide an overview of Research 2.0 and
some examples
Challenges emerging in the development of
Research 2.0 and possible socio-technical
solutions
3. Web 2.0
Blogging
Bookmarking
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File sharing (slides,
photos, videos, tags)
Podcasting
Social networking
Co-authoring (wiki)
http://web2logo.com/
4. The World of the Web 2
Communities
Shared
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resources
Connected
and networked
Diversity
A socio-
technical world
5. Research 2.0
Research powered by Web 2.0 technologies
Multidisciplinary collaboration
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Maintaining relationships
Sharing resources (e.g., data, tools,
publications, experiences)
Store, Browse, Organise, Annotate, Reuse,
Recreate resources
6. Powered by the semantic web +
Folksonomy
OurSpaces.net
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7. myExperiment.org
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8. SciVee.tv
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9. VERA
http://vera.rdg.ac.uk/
- On-site data gathering
- Integrated Archaeological Database
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- VRE Portal
10. VRE-SDM
VRE for Studying Documents and Manuscripts
http://www.vre.ox.ac.uk
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11. Science 2.0 / Academia 2.0
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Nature
Publishing Elsevier B.V.
Group
DELL & COLLEXIS
(LinkedIn-like)
13. Privacy and Confidentiality
Social networking websites usually offer the
features of personal profiles and online logs
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of personal activities online.
Fear of being watched and monitored and
screened.
Socio-technical solutions: security
technology + awareness raising
14. Intellectual Property Rights
“Release early, release often”
(mantra of the open source
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software community)? ->
Concerned over being copied
or scooped
Contradicting commercial
interests if data is provided by
private firms
Socio-technical solutions e.g.,
MyExperiment
15. Communication
VRE cf. Face-to-face meetings
Behavioural change in a Web 2.0
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environment
Languages
Socio-technical solutions: a better
Graphical User Interface, Ajax, and
Communication Space for improving
human-computer interaction
16. Multi-disciplinarity
How to improve mutual understandings in a
distributed and multidisciplinary environment?
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Different terminologies and epistemological
understandings
Socio-technical solutions: Semantic web
(metadata and possibly ontology) + social
tagging
17. Data Integration
Data 2.0
Open Access
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Data in different and incompatible formats
Context and provenance
Socio-technical solutions: Semantic Web
technology + a collective effort of
conforming to standard data formats and
better annotations
18. Organisational Issues
Community building – who should be
included/trusted (domain expertise) and who
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should be responsible (facilitators)?
Altruistic or other incentives (e.g.,
institutional support, monetary reward,
reputation)?
Sustainability
Socio-technical solutions: based on existing
academic community + open source models
19. Methodological Innovation
Collaborative and distributed ways of
conducting research
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To reuse or not to reuse? - Trust building +
Decision making + Social networking
Mutual shaping between technology and
academia
A paradigm shift?
20. Acknowledgement
The NCeSS hub team, particularly Peter
Halfpenny, Rob Procter, Kenny Baird, Meik
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Poschen
Materials from the VERA project
Materials from the VRE-SDM project
Various components borrowed/recycled from
the Web