Curation for OKM in LightingSept 2015, Athens, GreeceCMJ Faure GC Faure

MD, PhDProf ImmunologyUniversité Lorraine

KM : Knowledge management• Surfing the information wave

• In an overload context• Keeping abreast of information

• For research, teaching, science watching…Published papers, Books, JournalsExponential growth+ Grey literature: since the 90’s++ Internet

OKM: OPEN Knowledge ManagementInternetSo much information, it becomes grey

And the OPEN RevolutionOPEN Access (Gold or Green)

an hindrance or an opportunity…

Recent Evolutions and ConcernsINFOBESITY• Too much information is killing information... • and knowledge!

– Surinformation, Pollution informationnelle,– Harcèlement textuel

• Networking– From individuals and communities of interest – To (social) networks

CURATION for knowledge managementWhat is curation?

– A recent concept– Many tools

• Scoop.it Vs other tools • Experiences with Scoop.it in immunology• Other experiences for

– Other fields of Research, – Science mediation– Information literacy

Curation is... gold panningand goldsmithing• Selection

– Editorialisation– Agregation, distillation,

• Commenting– Elevation, mashup

• Diffusion– Sharing

Curation tools (32)

• Google news• Pearltrees, Paper.li, Pinterest, TumblR, Storify,

Sharezy, Flipboard... • Scoop.it

– A french and californian start-up– Various plans (Individual, Educational, Business)– Growing 2014: >1,5M curators, >75M posts, 150M Visitors,

3K companies» Crawling tool +++» Format, capabilities of enrichment

searching and sharing +++

Lighting Topicsopen 4 years ago, curated everyday since

• Lighting, Innovation, Design• http://www.scoop.it/t/lighting-innovation-design• >3700 scoops, >2800 vis., >5400 views

• Lighting in Art• http://www.scoop.it/t/lighting-in-art• >600 scoops, >1500 vis., >2800 views

• Lighting in History• http://www.scoop.it/t/lighting-in-history• 700 scoops, >600 vis., >1100 views

Contents Hubs of lighting information

LIGHTING in HistoryAntioch 450ADGas lights (75s)From London 1807 to Berlin 2012

Edison (1879)Lightbulbs (1901)

LEDs (from 1907 to present…

Lighting in Art

Paintings Camille Pissaro 1897Giacomo Balla 1909

Lighting installationsLuminale… Festival of Lights!

Lighting innovation DesignTechnical watch• LEDs >30%• Implementation in cities everywhere

• Solar lighting (10%)• Implementation in developing countries

• Africa

• Smart cities (7%)

LIGHTING Innovation Design Societal Watch• Costs of lighting (4%)

• Limiting light and security concerns• Light pollution (4%)

• Ecology (moose, bats, turtles, birds…)

Curation with • Strengths: Finding information

• Crawling engine, • And intervention of human specialist for selection, comments,

• Weaknesses• Human dependency• Ignorance of the capabilities of curation for research

• Opportunities: Sharing for learning, teaching• a specialized webmagazine• a specialized hub content

• Threats: • Evolution of curation techniques• Too many resources

Curation is for knowledge management of ...

• Teachers– Thought leadership and life long learning

» Trainees: – Basic training and life long learning

• Collectivities– Scientific Society, Academies– Interest Networks: ie GEIL, Coultry Club– Research Labs, Units,

– Companies, with UtoB (University to Business) opportunities?

Curating with Scoop it Share ideas that matters

• A day to day duty for scientists and researchers like « Walking the dog »

• Scoop it: a virtual space in the cloud– to collect and keep highly selected

informations • As well as information scooped

by other curators in your community

– to find them when required• Contents Hubs

Summary

• Probably the best curation tool on the web for serious information– Crawling engine and enrichment capacities

• A virtual dedicated scientific news webmagazine and content Hub

• easy to browse, and attractive– For information literacy and curiosity– The Search engine inside is a major asset

• The human factor of curation is the added value compared to robots (SEO): selection, editorialism

• And also the limit, requiring everyday work

Acknowledgments• Université Lorraine• G Decugis and M Rougier

• For fruitful discussions• Other « Light » scoopiters : ecoInsight, Dean

Ernst, Cindy Foster Warthen• « Light » Facebook friends: Leni Schwendinger,

Light Zoom Lumière, Luminapolis• For sharing information

• LIGHTING curated resources were labellized by « Comité National Lumière 2015».

OKCC/C3OQuestions• Are you interested in the curation

approach?• Do you want to be a « follower »?

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• Would you like to support or sponsor a topic?• Contact us gcfaure@hotmail.com