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Liquid Journals – an approach for knowledge dissemination in the Web era
Marcos Baez, Aliaksandr Birukou, Fabio Casati, Maurizio Marchese and the LiquidPub team
University of Trento, Italy
LiquidPub project
o Small or medium-focused research project funded by the European Commission under FP7 FET OPEN (Future and Emerging Technologies) scheme
o Runs from May 2008 till April 2011
o Budget of 2.1M €
o Partnerso University of Trento, Italy
o Spanish National Research Council, Spain
o Springer, Germany
o Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
o University of Fribourg, Switzerland
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Goal of the LiquidPub project
o Capture the lessons learned and opportunities provided by: o the Web and open source, o agile development
o to develop o concepts, models, metrics, and tools o for an efficient (for people), o effective (for science), o and sustainable (for publishers and the community) o way of creating, disseminating, evaluating, and consuming scientific
knowledge
o Understand what’s good for science, and make it happen
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What do we do in LiquidPub?
o See http://project.liquidpub.org/research-areas o Scientific Knowledge Objectso Research evaluation and peer review analysiso Managing lifecycle of web artifactso Discovering scientific communitieso Licensing and copyright
o Three case studies:o Liquid Journalso Liquid Books (collaborative creation of [not only] teaching material)o Liquid Conferences (platform for interdisciplinary conferences where
invited papers are presented for community discourse)
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Motivating Scenarioo What’s the goal of journals today?
o Select and group related content, after a submission of a paper
o Useful to find content, useful (?) to evaluate
o What’s under the hood?o Print/ship cost money: need to be sure it’s
good before it is published. Only way peer review
o “issues”/volumes needed for printing and organizational reasons
o Probably the best possible model in the pre-web eraScarce resource was printing and distribution
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o The Web has changed the way we get, share, produce and consume scientific content
Internet
The Web Era
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o Also social changes..
ReadersAuthors
How do I get interesting content!How do I make
my work visible!
The Web Era
The scarce resource now is the attention [Huberman]
So much info out there - I’d rather go for known sources!
Reviewers
15 review to do by tomorrow…
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o Original reasons for the current model are gone
(does not necessarily mean current model is still not the best)
o Back to the roots: How to provide interesting content?
datasetspapersblogs
Journals: Revisited
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Liquid journals: Proposal
..already available on the Web, in pre-prints, journals, proceedings, blogs…
...with colleagues, friends, other people working on the same topic…
… to broader community
Let’s see where we are
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Image from http://obychnogo.net/files/images/catch-the-moment-45-2.preview.jpg
Key intuition 1 – evolving network of multifacet objects
Data
Key intuition 2 – It’s subjective!
Key intuition 3 – editing power of the community
Key intuition 4 – readers create knowledge
Key intuition 5 - Diversity
Definition: a liquid journalo Collection of (interesting and relevant) links to scientific resources
(contributions, projects, events, people, …)o LJ do not host content, just link it
o Possibly defined as a query over the Web
o Selected by editors (Possibly based on defined procedures)
o Offered by a publisher
o May change continuously and may have issues (snapshots)
o Users may define relations between resources
Relationship types (examples)
o Temporal (e.g., next_version)
o Representation (e.g., alternative_repr_of)
o Structural (e.g., performed_on, reporting_on)
o Authorship (contributed, edited,…)
Filling journal with content
Step 1
Automatic query over Web
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From iPhone
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From e-mail
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From Google Scholar
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From CiteULike
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From ICaST (published by ICST)
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Other options we envisioned
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o Demos from Share http://is.tm.tue.nl/staff/pvgorp/share/
o Workflows and files from http://www.MyExperiment.org
o Videos: http://VideoLectures.net/, http://redress.lancs.ac.uk/
o Links from Facebook, DBLP, ACM Digital Library, Springerlink
o All those are subject to availability of API and Terms of Use
o From citation snippets
Organizing content
Step 2
Cooking area, sharing and annotating
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You can drop contributions on the dock for putting stuff in the Cooking area or sharing them with your contacts
You define the quick links by dropping journals and users here
Non intrusive and without distracting effects
YOUR TAGSAND
OPINIONS
Adding relations
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Navigation
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RESEARCH LINES AND
REUSE
MULTIPLE FACETS OF
CONTRIBUTION
Publishing journal
Step 3
Making a new issue
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After publishing
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(5 new)
TRADITIONALVS.
NOVEL METRICS
Consuming journals
Step 4
Information about journals I follow, where I appear, etc.
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LJs publishing me
Scientific metrics
UNITN-DB-Group
Authors
Communities
FabioJuan Alejandro
Computer SciencePhysicsBiology
TagsPeer-reviewScientific publ
Sources
Time
SpringerArxiv
Filters
»
LJs I edit
Lifecycle Management
Data integration
My subscriptions
Peer review (5 new)
Scientific metrics (7 new)
Consuming relations
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Sharing with research group
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Project/research group/personal page
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Thematic wikis
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From https://copilosk.fbk.eu/
THIS INFO CAN COME FROM
LIQUID JOURNALS
Social networks
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LJ I edit
LJ I follow
Not just reading…
o Navigating
o Sharing
o Linking and annotating (selfishly)
o Better search and management of info overload
o Knowledge extraction from readers/editors
o Efficient disseminationo Publish what I want, when I want, how I want, then deliver it through the
information pipeso Make evolution of ideas explicito Reuse implicit review that people do anyways when selecting content for their own
purposes
…there are some shortcomings
o Do I get tenure o if my paper appear in a LiquidJournal?o If I am a good editor of an LJ (good content
selector)
o Would people use LJ?o We don’t know yet, but try to develop it so that WE
can use it
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o Readers get interesting and relevant scientific contento Multi-faceted: blogs, papers, datasets, etc..o Peer-reviewed vs. non peer-reviewedo Diverse content
o Authors get real-time dissemination and evaluation o Consider other aspects of research productivity: good selector, good ideas,
good reviewer, incentives for early sharing
o Benefits for editors:o Publish first, then gain acceptance (even if you a student)o Try with new community (e.g. new interdisciplinary area) and see if it really
worth a journal
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…but there are also benefits
Do you want to see it running?Image from http://club.foto.ru/gallery/images/preview/2006/08/30/683761.jpg
Choose
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More
o The LiquidPub project. http://project.liquidpub.org
o Google liquidpub-announce and subscribe if you are interested (VERY low traffic): http://disi.unitn.it/mailman/listinfo/liquidpub-announce
o Or, subscribe to our blog: http://liquidpub.wordpress.com
o Or, follow us on twitter: http://twitter.com/liquidpub
o Participate in our surveys:o Scientific publishing and Web 2.0 - http://tinyurl.com/LPSurvey2010 o Rank scientists (and fight metrics) at http://tinyurl.com/icwesurvey
Ranking Researchers via Peer-Votingo Rank researchers via voting
o 1st Step: conduct surveys to gather votes reflecting the perceived impact of researchers
o 2nd Step: correlate votes with bibliometric indicators of impact using voting-based ranking algorithms
o How to participate: http://tinyurl.com/icwesurvey
2 to 20 minutes (you choose!!!)
Thanks for your attention
