scholarship in a connected world: new ways to know, new ways to show
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Scholarship in a connected world
New ways to know, new ways to show
Prof Derek W. Keats
Deputy Vice Chancellor(Knowledge & Information Management)
The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
http://[email protected]
http://gigaom.com/2010/12/14/facebook-draws-a-map-of-the-connected-world/
Disclaimer
Researcher
Photographer
Programmer
Institutional
I a m a g e e k
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1972
20th Century
I grew up in Gambo, a small town300 km from the Newfoundlandcapital, St. John's
One month after my 17th birthdayI had to leave Gambo and traveldown the Trans Canada Highway
... to St. John's ...
... to study Marine Biology at Memorial University of Newfoundland
The library aggregated scarce content resources into a physical location
Aggregation
Scarcity
Education as an industrial process- Graham Attwell
Aggregation
Scarcity
Traditional libraries aggregatescarce content resources
...and do things that enable people to locate and use them
What is scarce in the 21st Century?
Places to learn
Spaces to learn
Things to learn
from
Places to learn
Spaces to learn
Things to learn
from
ABUNDANCE
Adapting to a world of abundance
Importance oflibrarians
Thinking beyond
traditional services
Being proactive regarding
innovation and research being a more
effective research partner
Providinginformation literacy for a
better undergraduate
learningexperience
My job here
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Ubiquitous computing
The social academic
Research data
Free and Open vs secret science
secretscience
4 areas
In the ancient world ofthe 20th
Century
Computerswere big!
People went to
computers
People used computersfor really dumb taskssuch as...
Browsingthe web
Wordprocessing
Readingemail
a "web of data" thatenables machinesto understand the
meaning ofinformation on theWorld Wide Web
VirtualizationUtility computing
Software & hardware
as services
storage processing
Clo
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Public
cloud
Privat
ecloud
Campus wideWi-Fi
Cloudinitiative
Mobilelibraryaccess
StudentOwnership
Mobilityproject
ExtensiveeResources
What are we doing at
Wits
When did you last go
here forinformation?
Ubiquitous computing
The social academic
Research data
Free and Open vs secret science
secretscience
4 areas
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The social academic
EducationalTechnology
Not particularly linked to scholarship
Social networking and semantic web
e.g.
Crowdsourced curationof research papers
for researchers
The more of your
own work you put in
the more valuable
the system becomes to others
Whichmeans
The morevaluable
it is to you
Group
Articles in the group
MyOpenArchive
People in the group
MyOpenArchive
Integration
The web interface
Computer and Information Literacy
3898 groups
Closed group: ask to join
99+users
18papers
Most readarticles
Most readauthors
Activitystreams
Your ownactivitystreams
Open APIs
Ubiquitous computing
The social academic
Research data
Free and Open vs secret science
secretscience
4 areas
Data archiving and curation
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pulpolux/780345833/ Under BY-NC license
Research funders data management,
preservation orsharing plans atapplication time
Students accessto original data
http://www.flickr.com/photos/theunquietlibrary/4388142516/ BY-SA License
Researchers haveaccess to data forcombination andanalysis
http://www.flickr.com/photos/iita-media-library/4923066809/ BY-SA License
Data archiving librarian
– new role
Linkeddata Using the Web to
connect related data
Extends http and URIs
Data can beread automatically
by computers
Data fm different sources can be
connected & queried
You don't have to be human
to access anduse it
Linkedopendata Semantic web:
" that enables machines to understand the of information on the World Wide Web
New insightsfor researchersby analysing linked open
data
All researchersan be Hans Roslings
Linkedopendata
Semantic web:a "web of data" thatenables machines
to understand the ofinformation on theWorld Wide Web
New insightsfor researchersby analysing linked open
data
All researchersan be Hans
Roslings
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lod-datasets_2010-09-22_colored.png
Linked Open Datadatasets as of2010-09-22
LOD2 project
You don't have to be human
to access anduse it
You don't even need to know
it exists
SELECT description FROM http://WIKISPECIES_DATA WHERE species='Gadus morhua' JOIN species FROM locate, read (DISTRIBITION_DATA, cod OR codfish) JOIN species FROM locate, read (CATCH_DATA, cod OR codfish) INFER population_size FROM locate, read, textanalyse (HISTORICAL_DESCRIPTION, cod OR CODFISH) FOR 1600 TO 2011 PLOT RELATIONSHIP catch_data X fishing_rate ANIMATE bubble_size = fleet_size OVERLAY description
Ubiquitous computing
The social academic
Research data
Free and Open vs secret science
secretscience
4 areas
Africa produces 8.2 scientific research papers per million people
The world produces 103scientific research papers per million people
The USA produces 690 and Canada 723 scientific research papers per million people
The output of scientific research that is published in ways that are only accessible to some people, or that is locked up in the new form of patents that are designed towithhold disclosure and lengthen monopoly privileges.
Secret scienceSome secret
science isprobably
necessary ...
… but that doesn't mean
all scienceshould be
secret
Free science
Research carried out for the public good(including knowledge growth), that ispublished in ways that are accessible toanyone with a networked computing device,and that can be freely built upon to createinnovations that contribute to both public and private good.
HegemonyAcceptedpractices
LimitingWhat weachieve
Good fora while
The old way
Slowsprogress
Openaccess
publishing
Institutionalrepositories
Free andopen
educationalresources
Copyrightand
licenses
Resourcesharing
technologies
Make iteasier
secretscience
Ubiquitous computing
The social academic
Research data
Free and Open vs secret science
secretscience
4 areasABUNDANCE
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