Web 2.0 and diffusion of research (beta)

Ismael Peña López Faculty of Law and Political Science

César Córcoles Briongos Faculty of Computer Science, Multimedia and Telecommunication

Barcelona, 06/04/2006 Conclusions (1/3)

I proceed from the assumption that as knowledge workers our primary job is to communicate. Communication is not overhead, it's the work.

Chris Dent http://www.burningchrome.com/~cdent/mt/archives/000435.html Conclusions (2/3)

1. Markets are conversations.

95. We are waking up and linking to each other. We are watching. But we are not waiting.

Levine, Locke, Searls & Weinberger (1999) The Cluetrain Manifesto Conclusions (3/3)

Establishing open access as a worthwhile procedure ideally requires the active commitment of each and every individual producer of scientific knowledge and holder of cultural heritage. Open access contributions include original scientific research results, raw data and metadata, source materials, digital representations of pictorial and graphical materials and scholarly multimedia material.

Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities Visibility of working in the web 2.0

ƒ Identity in the network ƒ Appearing in your research area ƒ Self-tagging Identity in the network rfl in avirtualcommunity 3 profile 1 ril twww.uoc.edu at 4 article ’blog(article) 1’ lgreference 2 blog ’wiki reference 2’ Appearing in your research area

10 blog Self-tagging

ƒ ICT4D blog: #1 www.ictlogy.net ƒ ICT4D (a Google Blog Search): #1, #2, #3 www.ictlogy.net ƒ ICT4D wiki: #1 wiki.ictlogy.net ƒ ICT4D bibliography: #1 www.ictlogy.net/bibciter; #2, #3, #5 references ƒ ICT4D articles: #1 www.ictlogy.net ƒ ICT4D courses: #1 courses.ictlogy.net; #3, #4 references ƒ etc. e-Diffusion of research = data + metadata

Æ towards the semantic web Why being in the network (in academic terms)?

ƒ Personal/professional changes ƒ Expression of interests and academic orientation Work in progress ƒ Self-edition/self-publication of results Personal/professional changes

1 repositori de cursos 1 blog Personal/professional changes

1 blog Selfedition/selfpublication of results (1/2)

2 PhD Dissertation paper

3 reference to PhD Dissertation paper

4 reference to PhD Dissertation paper

5 reference to PhD Dissertation paper

and 6, 8, 10, 13, 16… Selfedition/selfpublication of results (2/2)

Publishing date of PhD Disertation: July 4th 2005 • downloads first month: 1.884 • monthly average download rest of months: 366 • total downloads: 4.386, from July 4th to March 31st 2006 (9 months)

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ƒ Origin ƒ Buzzwords ƒ Concepts ƒ Philosophy What is Web 2.0? (1/2) What is Web 2.0? (2/2)

Tim O’Reilly (2005) From Web 1.0 to Web 2.0

The web 1.0 is the dot-com bubble. The web from 1995 to 1999. The web 2.0 is the “web of the people”. The web from 2003 on. ƒ The personal page → The blog ƒ Directories (taxonomies) → Tagging (“”/”tagsonomies”) ƒ The Hotmail experience → The GMail experience

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ƒ Content creation, management and publishing made easy ƒ From a “centralist” organization to the “wisdom of crowds” ƒ From the static page to the dynamic web application Core aspects of Web 2.0

ƒ Standards: (X)HTML, CSS, Semantics, Microformats ƒ Tags and “folksonomies” ƒ del.icio.us and Flickr ƒ The boom of “” and architectures of participation ƒ Digg and Slashdot ƒ The Long Tail ƒ Amazon ƒ Rich user experiences ƒ GMail, Google Local, ajaxWrite, ajaxSketch ƒ Web services, open APIs and mash-ups ƒ Content syndication Tagging and folksonomies (1/3) Tagging and folksonomies (2/3) Tagging and folksonomies (3/3) Architectures of participation The Long Tail (1/2) The Long Tail (2/2) Rich user experiences “Philosophy” of Web 2.0

What it is

ƒ An attitude, not one technology ƒ User as contributor and editor ƒ Data hegemony ƒ Freedom to create and share ƒ Emergent behavior ƒ Web as the platform ƒ Market as conversation ƒ Eternal beta (Google Labs / Yahoo! Next) Concepts around Web 2.0

Ideas

ƒ FLOSS / GNU GPL ƒ LAMP ƒ RSS ƒ Open Access / Creative Commons ƒ FLOSSE ƒ OER

ƒ CMS ƒ VLE ƒ personal learning environment ƒ e-portfolio (emblematic) Tools ƒ Wiki: Wikipedia ƒ Blog: WordPress ƒ Feed readers: Bloglines ƒ Agregator: Digg ƒ : del.icio.us, furl, connotea, citeulike ƒ Storage: flickr, youtube ƒ Google maps: frappr (edubloggers), hurricane inf. maps ƒ Agenda and social networks: 43 things, orkut, friendster ƒ Comunication: Skype ƒ e-Commerce: Amazon ƒ … Using Web 2.0 in the diffusion of the research (1/2) ƒ Constant updating ƒ Specialization ƒ Training ƒ Improving writing, analysis, abstraction, synthesis. ƒ Read Æ think Æ write

Constant public exposure

ƒ Digital resources gathering ƒ Current news ƒ Information ƒ Materials ƒ Forefront research Using Web 2.0 in the diffusion of the research (2/2) ƒ personal/public information repository, with past and present (work in progress) interlinked documentation ƒ belonging to a (wide) informal community of people interested in same knowledge field, where to go looking for help, collaborators, to share experiences or just to have an outlet for yourself ƒ enter the virtuous cycle of reading and being read ƒ first-hand information, from the source and in real time. ƒ let others know that you know and what you know ƒ avoid waits and filters... and “google friendly” ƒ and with the desired license Web 2.0 <> having a blog, but taking part in the web 2.0 dynamics (possible) Web 2.0 map: teaching, research, diffusion

Bibliography gathering: CiteULike Projects: NetOffice

Virtual Comunity/ies Professor Notebook: WordPress

File repository: Streamload Distribution lists Yahoo! Information repository: wiki Feedreader: Bloglines Link gathering: del.icio.us Examples: The web, the platform (1/3) Examples: The web, the platform (2/3) Examples: The web, the platform (3/3) Examples: Teaching (1/5) Examples: Teaching (2/5) Examples: Teaching (3/5) Examples: Teaching (4/5) Examples: Teaching (5/5) Examples: The information repository (1/3) Examples: The information repository (2/3) Examples: The information repository (3/3) Examples: Diffusion of research (1/3) Examples: Diffusion of research (2/3) Examples: Diffusion of research (3/3) Conclusions? ƒ who gives credit to a website? ƒ how authorship is guaranteed? ƒ a matter of trust…? ƒ the website history/log, pingback/

the academic e-community Barcelona, April 6th, 2006. Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

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