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Research 2.0

Yuwei Lin

National Centre for e-Social Science

University of Manchester

http://www.ncess.ac.uk

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In the next 20 minutes, I will...

Introduce Web 2.0 briefly Provide an overview of Research 2.0 and

some examples Challenges emerging in the development of

Research 2.0 and possible socio-technical solutions

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Web 2.0

http://web2logo.com/

Blogging Bookmarking File sharing (slides,

photos, videos, tags) Podcasting Social networking Co-authoring (wiki)

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The World of the Web 2

Communities Shared

resources Connected

and networked Diversity A socio-

technical world

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Research 2.0

Research powered by Web 2.0 technologies Multidisciplinary collaboration Maintaining relationships Sharing resources (e.g., data, tools,

publications, experiences) Store, Browse, Organise, Annotate, Reuse,

Recreate resources

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OurSpaces.net

Powered by the semantic web + Folksonomy

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myExperiment.org

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SciVee.tv

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VERAhttp://vera.rdg.ac.uk/

- On-site data gathering- Integrated Archaeological Database- VRE Portal

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VRE-SDMVRE for Studying Documents and Manuscripts

http://www.vre.ox.ac.uk

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Science 2.0 / Academia 2.0

Elsevier B.V.

DELL & COLLEXIS(LinkedIn-like)

Nature Publishing Group

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Socio-technical Issues

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Privacy and Confidentiality

Social networking websites usually offer the features of personal profiles and online logs of personal activities online.

Fear of being watched and monitored and screened.

Socio-technical solutions: security technology + awareness raising

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Intellectual Property Rights

“Release early, release often” (mantra of the open source software community)? -> Concerned over being copied or scooped

Contradicting commercial interests if data is provided by private firms

Socio-technical solutions e.g., MyExperiment

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Communication

VRE cf. Face-to-face meetings Behavioural change in a Web 2.0

environment Languages Socio-technical solutions: a better

Graphical User Interface, Ajax, and Communication Space for improving human-computer interaction

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Multi-disciplinarity

How to improve mutual understandings in a distributed and multidisciplinary environment?

Different terminologies and epistemological understandings

Socio-technical solutions: Semantic web (metadata and possibly ontology) + social tagging

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Data Integration

Data 2.0 Open Access Data in different and incompatible formats Context and provenance Socio-technical solutions: Semantic Web

technology + a collective effort of conforming to standard data formats and better annotations

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Organisational Issues

Community building – who should be included/trusted (domain expertise) and who should be responsible (facilitators)?

Altruistic or other incentives (e.g., institutional support, monetary reward, reputation)?

Sustainability Socio-technical solutions: based on existing

academic community + open source models

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Methodological Innovation

Collaborative and distributed ways of conducting research

To reuse or not to reuse? - Trust building + Decision making + Social networking

Mutual shaping between technology and academia

A paradigm shift?

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Acknowledgement

The NCeSS hub team, particularly Peter Halfpenny, Rob Procter, Kenny Baird, Meik Poschen

Materials from the VERA project Materials from the VRE-SDM project Various components borrowed/recycled from

the Web

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http://blog.ncess.ac.uk