CURATION for OKMOpen Knowledge Management

• In Life Sciences (Immunology)• Using SCOOP.IT

Keeping abreast of scientific information in an overload context!

A new way of learning, teaching, doing research, mediating science

Pr GC Faure, MD, PhD

May 2015, Science&You, Nancy

KM: Knowledge Management

• Knowledge management– Surfing the information wave – Learning, Teaching, Research– Professionnal: Watching... managerial

approach

• Methods and tools to identify and capitalize knowledge – For Individuals (MDs, patients)– For Groups (Labs, Units, Companies)

• Science Watch (professionals)

• or simply curiosity (laypeople)?

• Life-long learning

Once upon a time..

• Keeping abreast of scientific information...– Was using Current Contents

» Nowadays, the world has changed – Curation appeared recently on stage,

on top of SEOs (Search Engine Optimization)

Grey Literaturesince end of 90's,

• Thesis, Reports• Patents• Scientific News Magazines• Press releases• Internet

– Websites, Blogs, Tweets.. – Social networks...RSS flux– So much information... it becomes

grey

Internet +OPEN Revolution

• Scholarly publishing– Exponential growth (Med 2 papers/mn)– From OPEN Source softwares to OPEN

Access literature (Gold or Green)

• + Internet

» How do endusers search?: GOOGLE

Recent Evolutionsand Concerns

• Too much information is killing information... and knowledge– Surinformation, Pollution informationnelle,

Harcèlement textuel

– Infobesity

• Networking– From individuals and communities of

interest – To (social) networks

CURATION for knowledge management

What is curation?– Concept– Tools

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

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

Data Curation vsKnowledge Curation

.... the process of establishing and developing long term repositories of digital assets for current and future reference by researchers, scientists, historians, and scholars.

Enterprises are starting to utilize digital curation to improve the quality of information and data within their operational and strategic processes..

• A recent concept– USA 2009, France 2011

Curation is... gold panningand goldsmith

• Selection– Editorialisation– Agregation, distillation,

• Comment– 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 +++

Curation possibilities

• Two major – Keeping abreast of information either

published or grey– Building of databases (personal or common)

» Curation is – Commenting, taging– Sending through e-mail, – Sharing through tweets, linkedin, pinterest,

tumblr, – Sending Newsletters

» Another kind of social network

Enrichment and Access

Building of specific databases (/individual or group curation)

Crawling of internet through keywords• Use of applet to download• Creation of scoops + Slideshare...• Reloading of scoops from other

members of network, followed topics

• Finding again with a dedicated search engine

Topics coveredwith colleagues from SFI, Portugal, Spain, France...

• Basic Science, Biotechnologies, BioTherapies– Immunology (5K scoops, >27K visitors, >35K

views)– From flow cytometry to Cytomics (3.2K sc, 5.6K vis,

11.6K views)– Immunology and Biotherapies (4.6K sc, 3.6K vis, 7.7K

views)– Mucosal Immunity (2K sc, 1.7K vis, 3.5K views)

• Immuno-Pathology– Autoimmunity, (1K sc, 1.7K vis, 2.8K views)– Allergy, (1.5K sc, 1.1K vis, 2.5K views)– Neuroimmunology...

• History of immunology

Other Immunology projects using Scoop.it

• Consultancy– K Maggon Immuno therapies

Biotherapies 10 topics

• Individual teachers and researchers– MdC Nancy Immune monitoring

– RC NY USA Diabetes

– JL USA Complement and PNH 10 topics

– AC Spain Immune diagnosis

– XW China ENT

– MH Nancy allergie alimentaire

» Vs resources using other curation tools: Pinterest, TumblR, PaperLi, Flipboard

Other Life Sciences active topics

• Chris Upton + Helpers U.Victoria – Virology and bioinformatics 77K– Next Generation sequencing

• C.Jacquet, IPM Lab Toulouse 56K– Plants immunity, pathogens...

• D Blanchard 4.4K– Biotech Pharma innovation

• Institut Pasteur de Tunis 17K• Journées Internationales Biologie 19K

Scientific mediationfor students, and laypeople

• Nancy: portfolio training, stage de 3ème Alan Yvon

• Goulu Café des Sciences 317K• Joel de Rosnay: Le Carrefour du Futur

3.3K

• Geography Seth Dixon 950K

Curation is for knowledge management of ...

• Teachers– Thought leadership and life long learning

» Trainees: – Basic training and life long learning

• Collectivities– Scientific Society, Academy– Interest Network: GEIL, Coultry Club– Research Labs – Companies (UtoB? University to Business)

CURATION .... Is Scoop.it the answer

– Purpose: Knowledge watching – Material: information on internet

• From « dog manure » to GOLD digging

– Methods:among many other tools• Choice of Scoop it

– Results: 4 years experience– Not just another social network!

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– to collect and keep highly selected

informations • As well as others scooped by

other curators in your community– to find them when required

Summary

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

• A virtual scientific news « journal » and database easy to browse with pictures– For information literacy and curiosity

– Search engine inside is a major asset • The human factor of curation is the added

value compared to robots (SEO): selection, editorialism

• And the limit, requiring everyday work

Acknowledgments

• GC Faure– PUPH, Consultant– Ex Maître-Toile du site de l'ASSIM– Immunologiste clinicien et biologiste

• Special thanks to Guillaume Decugis CEO of Scoop.it, and to active scoopiteers• No conflicts of interest declared!