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iwmw13
Turning Our Attention to
Supporting Research
Amber Thomas
Academic Technology Manager
University of Warwick
http://www.slideshare.net/academictechwarwick/iwmwsupportingresearch
confessionconfession
my contextmy context
By Scouten (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
is research a blind spot?is research a blind spot?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2013/jan/10/research-communications-uk-university-websites
UK changes to funding and UK changes to funding and evaluation of researchevaluation of research
OPEN ACCESS
IMPACT
RESEARCH DATA
research is changingresearch is changing
Amber Thomas. "21st-century Scholarship and Wikipedia". November 2012, Ariadne Issue 70 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue70/thomas
public engagementpublic engagement
institutional webpagesare not enough
and who helps researcherswith everything else?
open accessopen access
remodelling peer review
changes the role of the library
potential for rebirth of university press
so much more is public
broadening of what countsbroadening of what counts
• research datasets• code• blogs• slidedecks• podcasts and videos
a huge range of formatson a huge range of platforms
collaboration and collaboration and interdisciplinarityinterdisciplinarity
By Hierarchisches_Datenbankmodell.png:Stern at de.wikipedia derivative work: Sillyfolkboy (Hierarchisches_Datenbankmodell.png) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], from Wikimedia Commons
Projects don’t fit in our fixed structuresProjects spread …•between specialisms•across departments•between institutions•beyond bordersResearch happens outside the universityOutputs live outside the university
altmetricsaltmetrics
“Altmetrics expand our view of what impact looks like, but also of what’s making the impact. This matters because expressions of scholarship are becoming more diverse. Articles are increasingly joined by:•The sharing of “raw science” like datasets, code, and experimental designs•Semantic publishing or “nanopublication,” where the citeable unit is an argument or passage rather than entire article.•Widespread self-publishing via blogging, microblogging, and comments or annotations on existing work “
http://altmetrics.org/manifesto/
Some fundamental questions are being asked that could change how we manage and evaluate research within universities
a more social scholarshipa more social scholarship
academic networks become more visiblea new currency is emerging*
Currency metaphor with a nod to Dave White, Oxford TALL
research footprint monitoringresearch footprint monitoring
Collate usage data from where your research lives and breathes
Back onto your institutional webpages, through APIs, feeds and widgets
Digital Humanities @ WarwickDigital Humanities @ Warwick
Oliver Kanaan, Diving into the Splash CC BY NC http://fav.me/d2wp6h4
emerging themes, 6 months inemerging themes, 6 months in
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/research/digitalhumanities/
visualisation
social media
analytics
databases emerging themes
reflections, 6 months inreflections, 6 months in
• reminds me a lot of how e-learning support used to be 5-10 years ago
• could the fees system change and student satisfaction agenda have shifted the focus toward teaching?
• researchers are anxious because things are changing so fast
• hugely political, a spectrum of drivers and a complexity of response
• neutral stance is that digital scholarship is digital literacy applied to the new research landscape
implications implications for institutional websitesfor institutional websites
We have to get good at:•Re-aggregating distributed content analytics•Using third party specialist platforms: risk management•Data and databases, throughout the lifecycle•Preservation and archiving•Being technology collaborators in complex projects•Responsive innovation through to service provision•Admitting we don’t know the answers sometimes!
Thanks!
Amber Thomas
Academic Technology Manager
University of Warwick
amber.thomas @ warwick.ac.uk
@ambrouk
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