Web 2.0 in Science Wouter Gerrtisma, Marianne Renkema & Hugo Besemer Wageningen UR Library

Time table 9:00 Web 2.0 for Science : Introduction 9:30 Social Bookmarking 10:30 Working at documents with a group 11:15 Keeping-up-to date with RSS 11:45 Personal start pages

9:00 Web 2.0 for Science : Introduction

9:30 Social Bookmarking

10:30 Working at documents with a group

11:15 Keeping-up-to date with RSS

11:45 Personal start pages

2.0

The Web was made for Scientist Tim Berners-Lee proposed the WWW in 1989 as a collaborative workspace for scientists Tim O’Reilly and company coined the term Web 2.0 in 2004. Essentially the social web for scientist as envisaged by TBL

Tim Berners-Lee proposed the WWW in 1989 as a collaborative workspace for scientists

Tim O’Reilly and company coined the term Web 2.0 in 2004. Essentially the social web for scientist as envisaged by TBL

Source: Markus Angermeier

Source: T. O’Reilly, 2005 Tagging (folksonomy) => Directories Syndication => Stickiness Wiki => CMS Participation => Publishing Web Services => Screen Scraping Costs Per Click => Page Views Search Engine Optimization => Domain Name Speculation Blogging => Personal Websites Wikipedia => Brintannica Online Napster => mp3.com BitTorent => Akamai Flickr => Ofoto Google AdSense => DoubleClick Web 2.0 Web 1.0

Adapted from Butler (2006) Tagging (folksonomy) => Directories Distributed annotation systems => Genbank Wiki => CMS Participation => Publishing Web Services => Screen Scraping Boinc => Cluster computing Social Bookmarking => Reference managers Wiki/scholarpedia => Science encyclopedias Wikis/shared protocols => Individual Protocols Postgenomic/Digg => Faculty 1000 Blogs => Listservs Web events => Conferences Participative communities => Journals Science 2.0 Science 1.0

6 Pillars of Web 2.0 User generated content Wisdom of crowds Data, data everywhere Architecture of participation Network effects Openness Adapted after: Anderson 2007 .

User generated content

Wisdom of crowds

Data, data everywhere

Architecture of participation

Network effects

Openness

Adapted after: Anderson 2007 .

Examples of Web 2.0 in action

Blogs Blogs from Wageningen UR Confessions of a closet environmentalist chem-bla-ics Voir Wageningen Blog aggregation Chemical Blogspace Postgenomic Scienceblogs

Blogs from Wageningen UR

Confessions of a closet environmentalist

chem-bla-ics

Voir Wageningen

Blog aggregation

Chemical Blogspace

Postgenomic

Scienceblogs

Why should (PhD-)Students blog? Practice your writing skills Sharpen your analytical capabilities Build a network Market yourself

Practice your writing skills

Sharpen your analytical capabilities

Build a network

Market yourself

Wikis Wikipedia Scholarpedia Citizendium Scientific wikis Chempedia OpenWetWare FluWiki

Wikipedia

Scholarpedia

Citizendium

Scientific wikis

Chempedia

OpenWetWare

FluWiki

Social bookmarking General social bookmarking sited Del.icio.us, furl, diigo etc . Scientific bookmarking sites Connotea 2Collab Citulike Zotero Bibsonomy Scholar.com H20 Penntags Unalog Mtagger

General social bookmarking sited

Del.icio.us, furl, diigo etc .

Scientific bookmarking sites

Connotea

2Collab

Citulike

Zotero

Bibsonomy

Scholar.com

H20

Penntags

Unalog

Mtagger

Other applications RSS (feeds) Podcasts/Vodcasts Social networking Rating/ recommendations Collaborative office applications Open source, data, science

RSS (feeds)

Podcasts/Vodcasts

Social networking

Rating/ recommendations

Collaborative office applications

Open source, data, science

Time table 9:00 Web 2.0 for Science : Introduction 9:30 Social Bookmarking 10:30 Working at documents with a group 11:15 Keeping-up-to date with RSS 11:45 Personal start pages

9:00 Web 2.0 for Science : Introduction

9:30 Social Bookmarking

10:30 Working at documents with a group

11:15 Keeping-up-to date with RSS

11:45 Personal start pages

Social bookmarking

What you can do with social bookmarking tools: Save and acces your bookmarks from any computer Share your bookmarks and access other people’s bookmarks Search the website and find other people who are interested in the same topic and check out their research

Save and acces your bookmarks from any computer

Share your bookmarks and access other people’s bookmarks

Search the website and find other people who are interested in the same topic and check out their research

Tagging Words to describe the content of the bookmark (e.g. social_bookmarking, howto) Codes (e.g. UGUL08) Qualifier (e.g. *****)

Words to describe the content of the bookmark (e.g. social_bookmarking, howto)

Codes (e.g. UGUL08)

Qualifier (e.g. *****)

Collaboration Use a shared account (e.g. web2academia ) Use a special tag Create a network or group Sending links to other users

Use a shared account (e.g. web2academia )

Use a special tag

Create a network or group

Sending links to other users

List of social bookmarking products: Blue Dot BookmarkSync del.icio.us CiteULike Connotea Digg Diigo Furl GiveALink.org Linkwad Ma.gnolia My Web Mixx Newsvine Propeller.com Reddit Simpy SiteBar StumbleUpon 2Collab Most popular one Aimed at scientists Aimed at scientists

Blue Dot

BookmarkSync

del.icio.us

CiteULike

Connotea

Digg

Diigo

Furl

GiveALink.org

Linkwad

Ma.gnolia

My Web

Mixx

Newsvine

Propeller.com

Reddit

Simpy

SiteBar

StumbleUpon

2Collab

Demo on Del.icio.us Exercises with Del.icio.us and Connotea (http://web2academia.pbwiki.com/Social+Bookmarking)

Demo on Del.icio.us

Exercises with Del.icio.us and Connotea

(http://web2academia.pbwiki.com/Social+Bookmarking)

Keeping up to date with RSS

Working with a group at documents Wiki’s Advantages Easy to let a web based document grow organically Version control: easy to see who created a page and who changed it Disadvantages Not easy to create an offline document (but it is geting better) Shared tables are a challenge Alternative Online office applications like Zoho or Google Docs

Wiki’s

Advantages

Easy to let a web based document grow organically

Version control: easy to see who created a page and who changed it

Disadvantages

Not easy to create an offline document (but it is geting better)

Shared tables are a challenge

Alternative

Online office applications like Zoho or Google Docs

Keeping up to date with RSS RSS has different versions (0.91, 1.0, 2.0, Atom) and meanings (RDF Site Summary, Rich Site Summary, Realy Simple Syndication) “ Pull” rather than “push” A site can feature one or more Newsfeeds A “reader” is required

RSS has different versions (0.91, 1.0, 2.0, Atom) and meanings (RDF Site Summary, Rich Site Summary, Realy Simple Syndication)

“ Pull” rather than “push”

A site can feature one or more Newsfeeds

A “reader” is required

RSS is XML

Offline reader (for example Sage)

Online reader: Bloglines How to find scientific feeds? See wiki