the afterlife of 'living deliverables': angels or zombies?
DESCRIPTION
Living deliverables of the research project STELLAR are analysed with respect to exposed editing activity -- beyond the deadline of actual delivery.TRANSCRIPT
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2nd International Workshop on Research 2.0, September 28, 2010,
Barcelona, Spain
Fridolin Wild, Thomas UllmannThe Open University
Living deliverables: angels or zombies?
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LIVING DELIVERABLES
Deliverable: pre-defined, tangible, and verifiable work product; report on progress against tasks
Living deliverable: continuously edited with lively activity beyond official delivery deadline; wiki
… prior work … method … analysis … outlook
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Detailed Glyph (Arazy et al., 2010)
Sunword Glyph (Arazy et al., 2010)
PRIOR WORK
History Flow (Viegas et al., 2004)
WikiChanges: Sparklines (Nunes et al., 2008)
Focus on individual articles
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PRIOR WORK (2)
Revert Graphs (Suh et al., 2007)
Corporate Knowledge Sharing analysed with Sonivis (Baumgrass et al., 2008)
Meso-Zoom Analysis (Jesus et al., 2009)
Different scope or different wiki use
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LIFE AFTER DEADLINE
Angel: cheerful editing activity of a coherent set of pages of a deliverable also after deadline
Zombie: Low or no editing activity after deadline
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METHOD OF ANALYSIS
• Data extraction from latest changes feed and versioning history in database
• Statistics on revision histories• Social Network Analysis using revision history– Co-authorship networks: two people edit the
same page = co-authorship: IMA,T x IMTA,T
– Bipartite author-page networks: person edits page = directed edge from person to page: AMA∧P, A∧P
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OBSERVED LIVING DELIVERABLES
Average: 22.7 users, 3 820 page views, selected from 14 living deliverables, thereby excluding small group works and obvious zombies
(no editing activity from the first day)
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CUMULATED EDITS OVER LIFETIME
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CO-AUTHORSHIP NETWORK OF D6.3
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CO-AUTHORSHIP NET W/O ‘HOME’
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Page-author net before deadline
D6.3
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Page-author net after deadline
D6.3
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OTHER DELIVERABLES AFTER DEADLINE
D6.2 D1.1 D7.1
D1.2 became a ‘zombie’ (in the period of analysis – might be an angel by today)
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DISCUSSION
• Limit: Don’t mistake wiki co-authorship for overall collaboration on a deliverable
• Limit: Small set of wikis investigated• Found: Way to make activities more transparent• Found: There are phases in life• Found: Shift in focus after delivery• Outlook: differentiation of editing types• Outlook: animation over time• Outlook: reflection tool about collaboration?
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BEWARE, THE END IS NEAR.15