The document provides an overview of the LiquidPub Snow Workshop 2010 agenda. The workshop will include parallel panels on Friday morning discussing dissemination and discovery of scientific knowledge, collaborative creation of scientific knowledge, and novel methods for organizing conferences. The afternoon will include collaborative sessions and informal discussions. On Saturday, there will be feedback from the advisory board. The document also provides summaries of the three panel discussions.
This presentation introduces LiquidJournals, a tool for dissemination of scientific knowledge in web era. It also shows mockups and screenshots of the prototype which we are developing (1st version - end of June 2010)
Open Science In Poland Educating For Innovation With CCAhrash Bissell
Keynote for a conference in Warsaw, Poland regarding open science in Poland. The focus is on the rationale for open science and how open education and OER are ideally suited to training our next generation of innovators and scientists.
Keynote talk to LEARN (LERU/H2020 project) for research data management. Emphasizes that problems are cultural not technical. Promotes modern approaches such as Git / continuousIntegration, announces DAT. Asserts that the Right to Read in the Right to Mine. Calls for widespread development of contentmining (TDM)
Vks Presentation, Jankowski,15 Jan2009, Websites & Books, Near FinalNick Jankowski
Network Venues & Scholarly Monographs:
Pioneering Initiatives in Publishing e-Scholarship
Abstract
Scholarly publishers are increasingly incorporating Web sites into facets of the enterprise. Often, such sites primarily serve basic promotional and purchasing functions, but occasionally sites of both publishers and authors reflect other functionalities: search facilities, availability of published text, referral to instructional and research materials, hyperlinks to external sources, opportunity for reader-author exchange. This presentation provides a panoramic overview of Web sites recently prepared by publishers and/or authors that complement traditionally published scholarly monograph. This overview is intended to stimulate discussion of suitable Web functionalities that might be incorporated into monograph publications being prepared by scholars affiliated to the Virtual Knowledge Studio.
The Second Life Library 2.0 project has a great potential, it has the momentum. It has HealthInfo Island to focus on Consumer Health Information, a Medical Library and a Health and Wellness Center.
This presentation shows what libraries are doing in Second Life
This presentation introduces LiquidJournals, a tool for dissemination of scientific knowledge in web era. It also shows mockups and screenshots of the prototype which we are developing (1st version - end of June 2010)
Open Science In Poland Educating For Innovation With CCAhrash Bissell
Keynote for a conference in Warsaw, Poland regarding open science in Poland. The focus is on the rationale for open science and how open education and OER are ideally suited to training our next generation of innovators and scientists.
Keynote talk to LEARN (LERU/H2020 project) for research data management. Emphasizes that problems are cultural not technical. Promotes modern approaches such as Git / continuousIntegration, announces DAT. Asserts that the Right to Read in the Right to Mine. Calls for widespread development of contentmining (TDM)
Vks Presentation, Jankowski,15 Jan2009, Websites & Books, Near FinalNick Jankowski
Network Venues & Scholarly Monographs:
Pioneering Initiatives in Publishing e-Scholarship
Abstract
Scholarly publishers are increasingly incorporating Web sites into facets of the enterprise. Often, such sites primarily serve basic promotional and purchasing functions, but occasionally sites of both publishers and authors reflect other functionalities: search facilities, availability of published text, referral to instructional and research materials, hyperlinks to external sources, opportunity for reader-author exchange. This presentation provides a panoramic overview of Web sites recently prepared by publishers and/or authors that complement traditionally published scholarly monograph. This overview is intended to stimulate discussion of suitable Web functionalities that might be incorporated into monograph publications being prepared by scholars affiliated to the Virtual Knowledge Studio.
The Second Life Library 2.0 project has a great potential, it has the momentum. It has HealthInfo Island to focus on Consumer Health Information, a Medical Library and a Health and Wellness Center.
This presentation shows what libraries are doing in Second Life
Blogging, open access and new forms of publishing in academic careersGreg Downey
The slides from a talk at the Woolcock Institute, University of Sydney, on open publishing, blogging, and online writing in career perspective. Drawing on personal experience writing a weblog and maintaining large online academic community, these slides offer some basic advice and resources for enhancing one's impact through online publishing.
You work for a university, an institute, a branch of government or private industry where research takes place. It's your job to explain that research to audiences not reading peer-reviewed academic journals, whether those are industry partners, potential students, taxpayers, or government officials.
Veteran communicator Kelley Teahen offers easy-to-digest tips on how to explain what sometimes seems unexplainable in "What is it you do, and why does it matter? Writing effective research profiles."
How they might connect in a digital context. Invited keynote presentation in DARIAH workshop Practices and Context in Contemporary Annotation Activities. University of Hamburg, 29 October, 2015.
This is an update of an earlier presentation so is part repeat, but reflects my own growing in understanding of open scholarship over the last year or so.
Work in progress on "reading avoidance".
Goal is to present use cases at Beyond the PDF: https://sites.google.com/site/beyondthepdf/workshop-papers/supporting-reading
Draws inspiration from Renear & Palmer. 2009. “Strategic Reading, Ontologies, and the Future of Scientific Publishing.” Science 325:828-832.
The role and importance of social media in science Jari Laru
The role and importance of social media in science presentation in the course: 920001J - Introduction to Doctoral Training (1 ECTS credit). UNIOGS, University of Oulu, Finland.
What do connections between research and teaching look like?Martin Oliver
Although it’s widely advocated that connections should be built between research and teaching, it’s less clear how this happens in practice. This paper will explore how a sociomaterial perspective can help develop clearer accounts of how such connections have, and have not, been achieved.
Links between research activity and teaching quality were once described as "an enduring myth", leading to a programme of research to identify pedagogic approaches that can help build such connections. Healey (2005) notes, however, that opportunities for such research-based education can vary widely across disciplines.
This variation depends partly on the social norms around research, but also on the resources, tools and technologies that it involves. Latour & Woolgar’s studies (1979) showed that successful laboratory work required the coordination of tissue samples, graphs and desks, and that the scientific process could not proceed without these often mundane things.
Studies of students’ digital literacies show that in Education and related social sciences, studying involves books, photocopies, pens, iPads, library tables, buses, field sites, software packages, data sticks, highlighter pens and the movement of texts from digital to print format and back again (Gourlay & Oliver, 2013). Much of this mirrors the practices of researchers active in these fields.
Such studies raise questions about wider patterns of connection between study and research. When do these resources cross boundaries between research and teaching practice? What variations exist across disciplines, and why? What can following these mundane things tell us about the success – or otherwise – of connections between research and teaching?
A talk I gave for the SOLAR research group. It covers issues in open scholarship, alt metrics & online identity. It was a bit of a catch-all talk, which I'll probably refine over the next few months.
Slides for a talk on "Digital Life Beyond The Institution" given by Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus at the ILI 2013 conference in London on Tuesday 15 October 2013.
See http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/events/ili-2013-plenary-talk/
A landscape of new tools has lead to entirely new forms of communication. Learning itself is a ‘mashup.’ Teaching and communicating using online tools creates a conversation that takes place in a cloud. New learning skills and styles emerge. This presentation will introduce three concepts especially relevant to teaching and learning in this potentially overwhelming context: learning ecosystems, organizational biomimicry, and connectivism. This is a concise introduction to what's new in learning and communication and is meant to provide the background knowledge to support changes in practice.
This presentation is part one in a two part series about New Learning Communities. The second part is Practical Applications by Julia Parra, Ed.D.
Creating a dataset of peer review in computer science conferences published b...Aliaksandr Birukou
Computer science (CS) as a field is characterised by higher publication numbers and prestige of conference proceedings as opposed to scholarly journal articles. In this presentation we present preliminary results of the extraction and analysis of peer review information from computer science conferences published by Springer in almost 10,000 proceedings volumes. The results will be uploaded to lod.springer.com, with the purpose of creation of the largest dataset of peer review processes in CS conferences.
Linked Open Data about Springer Nature conferences. The story so farAliaksandr Birukou
Despite many efforts for making data about scholarly publications available on the Web of Data, lots of information about academic conferences is still contained in (at best) free-text format. When available in a structured format, these data would provide an essential input for the decisions researchers, libraries, publishers, funding and evaluation bodies take every day.
This talk will describe the project about having such data available as Linked Open Data (LOD) at lod.springer.com for around 10,000 computer science conferences. In addition, we will have a closer look at the lessons learnt from launching this portal and cover other Linked Data projects in Springer Nature. Finally, a novel semi-automated approach for classifying conference proceedings in Springer Nature will also be presented.
Blogging, open access and new forms of publishing in academic careersGreg Downey
The slides from a talk at the Woolcock Institute, University of Sydney, on open publishing, blogging, and online writing in career perspective. Drawing on personal experience writing a weblog and maintaining large online academic community, these slides offer some basic advice and resources for enhancing one's impact through online publishing.
You work for a university, an institute, a branch of government or private industry where research takes place. It's your job to explain that research to audiences not reading peer-reviewed academic journals, whether those are industry partners, potential students, taxpayers, or government officials.
Veteran communicator Kelley Teahen offers easy-to-digest tips on how to explain what sometimes seems unexplainable in "What is it you do, and why does it matter? Writing effective research profiles."
How they might connect in a digital context. Invited keynote presentation in DARIAH workshop Practices and Context in Contemporary Annotation Activities. University of Hamburg, 29 October, 2015.
This is an update of an earlier presentation so is part repeat, but reflects my own growing in understanding of open scholarship over the last year or so.
Work in progress on "reading avoidance".
Goal is to present use cases at Beyond the PDF: https://sites.google.com/site/beyondthepdf/workshop-papers/supporting-reading
Draws inspiration from Renear & Palmer. 2009. “Strategic Reading, Ontologies, and the Future of Scientific Publishing.” Science 325:828-832.
The role and importance of social media in science Jari Laru
The role and importance of social media in science presentation in the course: 920001J - Introduction to Doctoral Training (1 ECTS credit). UNIOGS, University of Oulu, Finland.
What do connections between research and teaching look like?Martin Oliver
Although it’s widely advocated that connections should be built between research and teaching, it’s less clear how this happens in practice. This paper will explore how a sociomaterial perspective can help develop clearer accounts of how such connections have, and have not, been achieved.
Links between research activity and teaching quality were once described as "an enduring myth", leading to a programme of research to identify pedagogic approaches that can help build such connections. Healey (2005) notes, however, that opportunities for such research-based education can vary widely across disciplines.
This variation depends partly on the social norms around research, but also on the resources, tools and technologies that it involves. Latour & Woolgar’s studies (1979) showed that successful laboratory work required the coordination of tissue samples, graphs and desks, and that the scientific process could not proceed without these often mundane things.
Studies of students’ digital literacies show that in Education and related social sciences, studying involves books, photocopies, pens, iPads, library tables, buses, field sites, software packages, data sticks, highlighter pens and the movement of texts from digital to print format and back again (Gourlay & Oliver, 2013). Much of this mirrors the practices of researchers active in these fields.
Such studies raise questions about wider patterns of connection between study and research. When do these resources cross boundaries between research and teaching practice? What variations exist across disciplines, and why? What can following these mundane things tell us about the success – or otherwise – of connections between research and teaching?
A talk I gave for the SOLAR research group. It covers issues in open scholarship, alt metrics & online identity. It was a bit of a catch-all talk, which I'll probably refine over the next few months.
Slides for a talk on "Digital Life Beyond The Institution" given by Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus at the ILI 2013 conference in London on Tuesday 15 October 2013.
See http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/events/ili-2013-plenary-talk/
A landscape of new tools has lead to entirely new forms of communication. Learning itself is a ‘mashup.’ Teaching and communicating using online tools creates a conversation that takes place in a cloud. New learning skills and styles emerge. This presentation will introduce three concepts especially relevant to teaching and learning in this potentially overwhelming context: learning ecosystems, organizational biomimicry, and connectivism. This is a concise introduction to what's new in learning and communication and is meant to provide the background knowledge to support changes in practice.
This presentation is part one in a two part series about New Learning Communities. The second part is Practical Applications by Julia Parra, Ed.D.
Creating a dataset of peer review in computer science conferences published b...Aliaksandr Birukou
Computer science (CS) as a field is characterised by higher publication numbers and prestige of conference proceedings as opposed to scholarly journal articles. In this presentation we present preliminary results of the extraction and analysis of peer review information from computer science conferences published by Springer in almost 10,000 proceedings volumes. The results will be uploaded to lod.springer.com, with the purpose of creation of the largest dataset of peer review processes in CS conferences.
Linked Open Data about Springer Nature conferences. The story so farAliaksandr Birukou
Despite many efforts for making data about scholarly publications available on the Web of Data, lots of information about academic conferences is still contained in (at best) free-text format. When available in a structured format, these data would provide an essential input for the decisions researchers, libraries, publishers, funding and evaluation bodies take every day.
This talk will describe the project about having such data available as Linked Open Data (LOD) at lod.springer.com for around 10,000 computer science conferences. In addition, we will have a closer look at the lessons learnt from launching this portal and cover other Linked Data projects in Springer Nature. Finally, a novel semi-automated approach for classifying conference proceedings in Springer Nature will also be presented.
Presentation given at an Invited talk at Leicester University. Covers work we are doing at the Open University on applying blockchains/distributed ledgers in the adult educational space
Blockchains a new platform for semantically enabled transactions publicJohn Domingue
Keynote at the SALAD Workshop at ESWC 2016. Gives an overview of blockchains and some thoughts on the link to the Semantic Web, Linked Data and Semantic Web Services
Slides presented at the 2nd Snow Workshop (http://wiki.liquidpub.org/mediawiki/index.php/Second_Workshop_on_Scientific_Knowledge_Creation%2C_Dissemination%2C_and_Evaluation)
Provides an overview of social networking and social media. Previews some commonly used social networking and social media tools. Provides some basic planning ideas for using social media for Toastmasters club success.
"LiquidPub: Services at Service of Science". Invited talks of Fabio Casati at the European Conference on Web Services 2009 and in the Politechnico di Milano
IFB Spice Secrets Master.Chef is a first-of-its-kind initiative by an appliance brand. The nationwide competition travelled the length and breadth of the country, in a bid to find India's first microwave Master.Chef. IFB builds its products and services around it’s brand promise of Set Yourself Free.
Our customers are people who genuinely believe in this ethos. Which is why we decided to make them our veritable brand ambassadors.
From exhilaration to exasperation, this program captured the entire gamut of emotions the participants went through and of course, an exciting array of dishes at the end of each Master.Chef round. The after sales of Microwaves were exemplary.
Digital Humanities in Practice, DHC 2012Monica Bulger
This paper presents findings of a fieldwork study that explored research practices, challenges, and directions in contemporary digital humanities scholarship. The study was conducted in the period April-October, 2010, as part of two research projects of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Oxford Internet Institute. The studies included observations, focus groups, and in-depth interviews with digital humanities scholars, policymakers, and funders, with a focus on developers and users of digital resources for humanities research. The study involved 92 participants from over 25 institutions in 5 countries.
Presented by: Monica Bulger, Eric T. Meyer, and Sally Wyatt, with Smiljana Antonijevic
The Liber 2009 presentation repeated for a Dutch audience IN Dutch but with the english slides (just the first one is in Dutch :-)
Samenwerking Hogeschool bibliotheken SHB, 5 november 2009
We used to think of the user in the life of the library. Now we think of the library in the life of the user. As behaviors change in a network environment, we have seen growing interest in ethnographic and user-centered design approaches. This presentation introduces this topic. It also explores changes in how we manage collections as an illustration of this shift towards thinking of the library in the life of the user.
Published on Jan 29, 2016 by PMR
Keynote talk to LEARN (LERU/H2020 project) for research data management. Emphasizes that problems are cultural not technical. Promotes modern approaches such as Git / continuous Integration, announces DAT. Asserts that the Right to Read in the Right to Mine. Calls for widespread development of content mining (TDM)
The Culture of Research Data, by Peter Murray-RustLEARN Project
1st LEARN Workshop. Embedding Research Data as part of the research cycle. 29 Jan 2016. Presentation by Peter Murray-Rust, ContentMine.org and University of Cambridge
Open Cultures and Open Innovation - Open Science STS Course 2015Katja Mayer
The notion of Open Science is enjoying great popularity at the moment, some even go so far to call it "the better science". The European Union has recently adopted the term Open Science in its research framework programme, however negotiations about benefits and challenges of Open Science take place in many different arenas. In general, Open Science demands the highest possible transparency, accountability, and shareability in knowledge production, as well as the participation of all relevant stakeholders in the scientific process.In this seminar we will be looking at the diversity of Open Knowledge cultures in science and humanities.
Discussing ideal and actual realms of Open Science practices we will approach aspects such as Open Access, Open Research Data, Open Education, Open Evaluation, Citizen Science and Open Innovation from several perspectives, drawing on literature from stakeholders such as science, policy, science administration, technology, NGOs and Open Science activists. The objective is to understand Open Science situated within the movement of Open Cultures, therefore investigating its promising roles as change maker both in traditional academic settings and in society at large. The focus will be particularly on exchanges and translations of practices of science in society and respective epistemic politics.
Besides, the seminar aims at introducing Open Science as a set of practices to students to let them explore options for their own studies and theses.
Public version of presentation proposing research project to look at libraries/ librarians ' role in relation to Open Educational Resources.
[this version edited to remove some context]
Explore open access books - Springer Nature & Digital Science event in Boston...Springer Nature
In September 2019, Digital Science and Springer Nature held a researcher event exploring the topic of open access books. This slide deck includes presentation slides from each session:
1. Why publish your book open access? (Rosalind Pyne, Director OA Books, Springer Nature) - slides 3-20
2. Live author Q&A with Eric Haines (lead editor 'Ray Tracing Gems and distinguished engineer at Nvidia) about his experience of publishing an open access book - slide 22
3. Understanding the value and impact of open books (Mike Taylor, Head of Metrics Development, Digital Science)
Manager, Springer Nature) - slides 23-58
4. How MIT is Reimagining OA Books and Open Knowledge Infrastructure (Catherine Ahearn, Content Lead, PubPub MIT Knowledge Futures Group) - slides 58-75.
Notes from attending FORCE2019 conference in Edinburgh (October 15-18), covering a range of topics around Research Communications, e-Scholarship, Open Science and Open Access. Links on last slide for full conference programme and presented materials available online.
Similar to General presentation of the LiquidPub project (20)
Publishing conference proceedings internationally: how does it workAliaksandr Birukou
In this presentation we look into main elements one has to consider when organizing an international conference. First, we describe the role of conference proceedings in CS and beyond. Second, we focus on the tasks of conference organizers. Third, we cover the peer review aspects and announce the new group CrossRef and DataCite start with this respect. We then cover indexing and dissemination as well as present several tips and guidelines for organizers of international conferences as well as the word of warning regarding predatory publishers.
В этой презентации мы рассмотрим основные элементы, которые необходимо учитывать при организации международной конференции. Во-первых, мы описываем роль материалов конференций в компьютерных науках и других областях. Во-вторых, мы концентрируемся на задачах организаторов конференции. В-третьих, мы рассмотрим аспекты рецензирования и расскажем о работе группы CrossRef и DataCite. Затем мы расскажем об индексировании и распространении, а также представим несколько советов и рекомендаций для организаторов международных конференций, а также предостережём о феномене хищнических издателей и конференций.
Технические аспекты публикации на нескольких языках – как правильно связать DOIAliaksandr Birukou
Доклад призван оспорить утверждение "объединить же ссылки на версии одной и той же статьи в журналах разных издательств не представляется возможным (DOI пока эту задачу не решает)".
Мы рассмотрим проблему публикации на нескольких языках. После рассмотрения этических аспектов (исключение дублирования публикаций, проверки заимствований на разных языках Диссернетом) и влияния многоязычных публикаций на наукометрические показатели, мы перейдем к существующим примерам. Текущие практики включают в себя а) использование одного DOI одним издателем, б) использование разных DOI одним издателем, в) использование разных DOI разными издателями (в журналах РАН и в независимых журналах). Мы рассмотрим существующие решения для связи публикаций на нескольких языках, такие как Math-Net.Ru и проанализируем плюсы и минусы различных решений.
После этого, мы предложим решение связывания DOI различных версий статьи с помощью нового механизма Crossref и рассмотрим как этот механизм используется международными и российскими журналами. Мы надеемся, массовый переход журналов на использование этого механизма не только исключит этические проблемы, но и поможет международным наукометрическим базам организовать правильный подсчет цитат.
Conference Identity: persistent identifiers for conferencesAliaksandr Birukou
Conferences are an essential part of scholarly communication. However, like researchers and organizations they suffer from the disambiguation problem, when the same acronym or the conference name refers to very different conferences. In 2017, Crossref and DataCite started a working group on conference and project identifiers. The group includes various publishers, A&I service providers, and other interested stakeholders. The group participants have drafted the metadata specification and gathered the feedback from the community.
In this talk, we would like to update the VIVO participants with where we stand with the PIDs for conferences, conference series and Crossmark for proceedings and are inviting the broader community to comment.
Read the CrossRef post for more info about the group:
https://www.crossref.org/working-groups/conferences-projects/
Authors: Aliaksandr Birukou and Patricia Feeney
Springer LOD conference portal. Demo paper - screenshotsAliaksandr Birukou
This is a slide deck with main features I have used as a backup for the demo at The 16th International Semantic Web Conference – ISWC2017 in Vienna next week. Many thanks to Volha Bryl and Andrey Gromyko from Net Wise for helping me to prepare the demo, as well as Alfred Hofmann (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) ) and Henning Schoenenberger (Knowledge Graph (SN SciGraph) ) for continuous support. Of course, this is also based on the earlier work of Markus Kaindl and Kai Eckert from Stuttgart Media University.
If you want to read the original paper - here it is: http://birukou.eu/publications/papers/201710Birukou-ISWC2017-springer-lod.pdf
PersistentIDs and CrossMark for Conference ProceedingsAliaksandr Birukou
These slides present the main achievements (as of October 2017) in the CrossRef group on Persistent Conference IDs and the related projects. In particular, the proposal for the metadata for conference series and conferences and CrossMark for proceedings are described.
Publishing conference proceedings internationally: Tips and tricksAliaksandr Birukou
In this presentation we look into main elements one has to consider when organizing an international conference. First, we describe the role of conference proceedings in CS and beyond. Second, we focus on the tasks of conference organizers. Third, we cover the peer review aspects and announce the new group CrossRef and DataCite start with this respect. We then cover indexing and dissemination, including Springer Nature Linked Open Data portal, http://lod.springer.com. We finalize the presentation with several tips and guidelines for organizers of international conferences as well as the word of warning regarding predatory publishers.
This presentation describes linked open data pilot run in Springer. During the pilot the data about conferences in computer science will be made publicly available as Linked Open Data (LOD)
An Integrated Solution for Runtime Compliance Governance in SOAAliaksandr Birukou
In response to recent financial scandals (e.g. those involving Enron, Fortis, Parmalat), new regulations for protecting the society from financial and operational risks of the companies have been introduced. Therefore, companies are required to assure compliance of their operations with those new regulations as well as those already in place. Regulations are only one example of compliance sources modern organizations deal with every day. Other sources of compliance include licenses of business partners and other contracts, internal policies, and international standards. The diversity of compliance sources introduces the problem of compliance governance in an organization. In this paper, we propose an integrated solution for runtime compliance governance in Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs). We show how the proposed solution supports the whole cycle of compliance management: from modeling compliance requirements in domain-specific languages through monitoring them during process execution to displaying information about the current state of compliance in dashboards. We focus on the runtime part of the proposed solution and describe it in detail. We apply the developed framework in a real case study coming from EU FP7 project COMPAS, and this case study is used through the paper to illustrate our solution.
Presentation about the LiquidPub project at Librinnovando 2010. Explains main research directions of the project and the ideas behind LiquidBooks and InstantCommunities
Is peer review any good? A quantitative analysis of peer reviewAliaksandr Birukou
This is a presentation of the paper in which we focus on the analysis of peer reviews and reviewers behavior in conference review processes. We report on the development, definition and rationale of a theoretical model for peer review processes to support the identification of appropriate metrics to assess the processes main properties. We then apply the proposed model and analysis framework to data sets about reviews of conference papers. We discuss in details results, implications and their eventual use toward improving the analyzed peer review processes.
The slides of the invited talk Maurizio Marchese from the LiquidPub team gave at the Workhop on Automated Experimentation at e-Science Institute, Edinburgh, February 24th, 2010
Slides about LiquidPub project, presented at the 2nd Snow Workshop
http://wiki.liquidpub.org/mediawiki/index.php/Second_Workshop_on_Scientific_Knowledge_Creation%2C_Dissemination%2C_and_Evaluation
Reshaping Scientific Knowledge Dissemination and Evaluation in the Age of the...Aliaksandr Birukou
This talk tries to unveil some of the problems inherent in the current knowledge creation, dissemination, and evaluation practices, also based on models and quantitative analyses of the effectiveness of peer review as gatekeeping/assessment method and of citations as measure of impact. The speaker will present the recent research and development threads aiming at making the knowledge generation and dissemination process efficient, and the evaluation process (more) fair and accurate. He will in particular present the models and tools being developed to this end, which are essentially based on applying to knowledge dissemination the lessons learned from open source development and the social web. The presentation will be interactive and discussion-oriented.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
Synthetic Fiber Construction in lab .pptxPavel ( NSTU)
Synthetic fiber production is a fascinating and complex field that blends chemistry, engineering, and environmental science. By understanding these aspects, students can gain a comprehensive view of synthetic fiber production, its impact on society and the environment, and the potential for future innovations. Synthetic fibers play a crucial role in modern society, impacting various aspects of daily life, industry, and the environment. ynthetic fibers are integral to modern life, offering a range of benefits from cost-effectiveness and versatility to innovative applications and performance characteristics. While they pose environmental challenges, ongoing research and development aim to create more sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives. Understanding the importance of synthetic fibers helps in appreciating their role in the economy, industry, and daily life, while also emphasizing the need for sustainable practices and innovation.
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
A workshop hosted by the South African Journal of Science aimed at postgraduate students and early career researchers with little or no experience in writing and publishing journal articles.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
12. Something about LiquidPub project University of Trento, Italy Spanish National Research Council, Spain Springer, Germany Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France University of Fribourg, Switzerland
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Structural Dimension Liquidpub Snow Workshop 2010 Presentation Serialization Semantic File Data pointed by a URL Conceptual and relation information Serialization of data and metadata Url1 Url2 Url3 Url4 URL2,URL1,URL3, URL4, Set of URLs Second and following pages of content Title, Authors and Abstract Main content Comment URL0 SURL1 Metadata Node containing title, authors, abstract File Node containing main content Points SURL2 Metadata Node containing the note “This is good” File fragment selecting the last part of the content Metadata Node containing title, authors and abstract for the whole document Content nodes representing each of the pages of the document Semantic Annotation “comment” with a value “This is good” SURL4 b “ Part of” Semantic Annotation a File fragment selecting the part to which apply the annotation Title of the document (metadata) Data of nodes 1, 0 and 2 Data of node 4 and link to node 5 SURL0 Use title from SKO Use full data from these nodes Use this node as a reference Ordering and use of the nodes of a Document Tree LURL0 Serialization node Table of Contents Full-text Document Bibliography LURL Aggregation order of Serialization Nodes Visualization and style information Document, Style1 Document, Style2 Style modification for the word “Objects” LURL0 PURL1 Presentation Metadata containing a style change for the word “Objects” Serialization fragment selecting the word “Objects” from the title Points PURL2 Serialization Node Presentation Metadata containing style Objects This amounts to a set of URLs with some parameters for "sharp sign" fragments. The URLs include not only all the resources belonging to this document but also the URLs belonging to the documents pointed to (or referenced) from this one. Finally, one or more URLs are defined for aggregations of URL (for example, a single global URL for the whole document). This amounts to a set of URLs with some parameters for "sharp sign" fragments. The URLs include not only all the resources belonging to this document but also the URLs belonging to the documents pointed to (or referenced) from this one. Finally, one or more URLs are defined for aggregations of URL (for example, a single global URL for the whole document). This amounts to a set of URLs with some parameters for "sharp sign" fragments. The URLs include not only all the resources belonging to this document but also the URLs belonging to the documents pointed to (or referenced) from this one. Finally, one or more URLs are defined for aggregations of URL (for example, a single global URL for the whole document). the documents pointed to (or referenced) from this one. Finally, one or more URLs are defined for aggregations of URL (for example, a single global URL for the Scientific Knowledge Objects Fausto Giunchiglia, Ronald Chenu-Abente Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienza dell'Informazione Via Sommarive, 14 I-38123 POVO {fausto, chenu }@disi.unitn.it Abstract: Dsdkasd sdldsfjsdl fsdfkljsdl dfjdfj fdjkf, daskds, sdjsdk, asdskdsdkjk. Dasdkjlask dasd dhtr;jvnmcv fdfjdri fdfjkdf dkfjdir Keywords: dasdas, gfgdfg, gertsdf, vcxfgsdr This part is good! 0 1 2 3 This amounts to a set of URLs with some parameters for "sharp sign" fragments. The URLs include not only all the resources belonging to this document but also the URLs belonging to the documents pointed to (or referenced) from this one. Finally, one or more URLs are defined for aggregations of URL (for example, a single global URL for the whole document). Semantic Tree Example the documents pointed to (or referenced) from this one. Finally, one or more URLs are defined for aggregations of URL (for example, a single global URL for the whole document). This amounts to a set {LINK TO URL6] 4 3 1 2 5 Bibliography [1] ASHRI, R., RAMCHURN, S. D., SABATER, J., LUCK, M., AND JENNINGS, N. R. Trust evaluation through relationship analysis. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS ’05) (New York, NY, USA, 2005), ACM, pp. 1005–1011. [2] CASATI, F., GIUNCHIGLIA, F., AND MARCHESE, M. Publish and perish: why the current publication and review model is killing research and wasting your money. ACM Ubiquity (11 2006). [3] CASATI, R., ORIGGI, G., SCHNEIDER, L., AND VELTRI, G. Liquidpub position paper, October 2008. [4] DE WAARD, A. The pragmatic research article. In 2nd International Pragmatic Web Con- ference, Tilburg, 22nd-23rd Oct. 2007 (2008). [5] FABIO CASATI, FAUSTO GIUNCHIGLIA, M. M. Liquid publications: Sci- entific publications meet the web. Tech Report from Unitn, found at http://eprints.biblio.unitn.it/archive/00001313/01/073.pdf, 09 2007. [6] KIRCZ, J. G. Rhetorical structure of scientific articles: (1991), 354–372. This amounts to a set of URLs with some parameters for "sharp sign" fragments. The URLs include not only all the resources belonging to this document but also the URLs belonging to the documents pointed to (or referenced) from this one. Finally, one or more URLs are defined for aggregations of URL (for example, a single global URL for the whole document). the documents pointed to (or referenced) from this one. Finally, one or more URLs are defined for aggregations of URL (for example, a single global URL for the whole document). Scientific Knowledge Objects Fausto Giunchiglia, Ronald Chenu-Abente Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienza dell'Informazione Via Sommarive, 14 I-38123 POVO {fausto, chenu }@disi.unitn.it Abstract: Dsdkasd sdldsfjsdl fsdfkljsdl dfjdfj fdjkf, daskds, sdjsdk, asdskdsdkjk. Dasdkjlask dasd dhtr;jvnmcv fdfjdri fdfjkdf dkfjdir Keywords: dasdas, gfgdfg, gertsdf, vcxfgsdr This part is good! Table of Contents 1 Introductory Denitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.1 Considerations on Content and Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.2 Metadata, Attributes and Relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Relation Attributes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Metadata-linked Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2 The Data Representation Level . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.1 SKOnode Denition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.2 SKOnode Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 The Composes" relation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 10 Representing a Complex Artifact as a SKOnode DAG. . . 11 A Global View of the System's SKOnode Graph. . . . . . . . 13 3 The Knowledge Representational Level . . . . . . . . . . .13 3.1 SKO Denition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 3.2 SKO Semantic Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15 3.3 SKO Serialization Structure . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . 15 3.4 SKOnodes vs SKOs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . 16 3.5 Knowledge Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . 17 The s compiled" relation. . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . 18 A Global view on the System's SKO Graph. .. . . . . . . . . . 19 1 Table of Contents 2 Full-text Doc. 3 Bib. Scientific Knowledge Objects Fausto Giunchiglia, Ronald Chenu-Abente Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienza dell'Informazione Via Sommarive, 14 I-38123 POVO {fausto, chenu }@disi.unitn.it Abstract: Dsdkasd sdldsfjsdl fsdfkljsdl dfjdfj fdjkf, daskds, sdjsdk, asdskdsdkjk. Dasdkjlask dasd dhtr;jvnmcv fdfjdri fdfjkdf dkfjdir Keywords: dasdas, gfgdfg, gertsdf, vcxfgsdr This part is good! Scientific Knowledge Objects Fausto Giunchiglia, Ronald Chenu-Abente Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienza dell'Informazione Via Sommarive, 14 I-38123 POVO {fausto, chenu }@disi.unitn.it Abstract: Dsdkasd sdldsfjsdl fsdfkljsdl dfjdfj fdjkf, daskds, sdjsdk, asdskdsdkjk. Dasdkjlask dasd dhtr;jvnmcv fdfjdri fdfjkdf dkfjdir Keywords: dasdas, gfgdfg, gertsdf, vcxfgsdr This part is good! This amounts to a set of URLs with some parameters for "sharp sign" fragments. The URLs include not only all the resources belonging to this document but also the URLs belonging to the documents pointed to (or referenced) from this one.
64. What we need Management system Specification of research related process models User interface to interact with the system
65. What we currently have Management system Specification of research related process models User interface to interact with the system ConfMaster EasyChair PRE DEFINED PRE DEFINED Little flexibility, hard to change
66. What we want Process model specification tool User interface information Automated generation
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68. The thechnology Islander specification language and tool Process model XML Widgets DB Visual components Mapping and visual components functionality
69. What an LP Management System should look like...
Nevertheless, formal peer review as we understand it today still dates back to at least the 18th century. The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London—founded in 1665, the same year as the Journaldes sc¸avans—was selective in its choice of manuscripts, but this was an informal process in the handsof the editor [137]. The Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Medical Essays and Observations, first publishedin 1731, was probably the first to introduce peer review as we would recognise it today, with submittedmanuscripts being distributed by the editor to appropriate specialists for assessment [137, 6];
Feedback: do not bury comments, make them visible to the authors Diversity: Jack Sandweiss, Yale. http://prl.aps.org/edannounce/PhysRevLett.102.190001
Liquid journals belong to a research line, in which we are trying to understand the challenges and opportunities the Web has made possible in terms of knowledge dissemination and evaluation.
To understand these possibilities and opportunities we need to look into the current dissemination model, and the reasons behind its structure. But what’s under the hood.. If we look at the current model we see that most of the features are there because of historical reasons.. ICSOC/ServiceWave2009
The Web has changed the way we get, share, produce and consume scientific content. Publishing is almost free. We have now new formats and new types of scientific content: We have blogs, papers, datasets.. provided by a variety of services on the Internet. In traditional and non traditional sources. The problem is now the attention [Huberman] ICSOC/ServiceWave2009
T The problem has become, for the readers. How do I get interesting an relevant content? For the authors, how do I make my work visible? The problem is now the attention [Huberman] ICSOC/ServiceWave2009
Original reasons for journal model now gone. Scarce resource now is attention Liquid journals: back to the roots – how to provide interesting content Separate the production/publication of content from the selection and grouping A journal is a view over scientific content avail on the web (free or not) The journal is defined as a query over the Web The editor specifies the type and properties of the content What behaviours are good for science? ICSOC/ServiceWave2009
Behaviors that are good for science, and in particular for the problem of information overhead Consider the new spectrum of “scientific contributions”, not just paper. And let users discover and get interesting problem. Focusing their attention to the things they care about. Advances in social Web, social tagging, New wasy of publishing, real time web, exploring real time dissemination +How we can bring interesting and relevant content to scientist? And therefore to understand and define the dimensions of what is scientific content How we can enable behaviours that are good for science? -enable early sharing -having people giving feedback How can the new publication mechanism benefit from the Web? What are the processes to follow How can we enable new possibilities?! We have defined an early model based on some initial research ICSOC/ServiceWave2009
I cannot go through all de details, so I thought it would be better to see an example, covering different aspects of the research Behaviors that are good for science, and in particular for the problem of information overhead +How we can bring interesting and relevant content to scientist? And therefore to understand and define the dimensions of what is scientific content How we can enable behaviours that are good for science? -enable early sharing -having people giving feedback How can the new publication mechanism benefit from the Web? What are the processes to follow How can we enable new possibilities?! We have defined an early model based on some initial research ICSOC/ServiceWave2009
Behaviors that are good for science, and in particular for the problem of information overhead +How we can bring interesting and relevant content to scientist? And therefore to understand and define the dimensions of what is scientific content How we can enable behaviours that are good for science? -enable early sharing -having people giving feedback How can the new publication mechanism benefit from the Web? What are the processes to follow How can we enable new possibilities?! We have defined an early model based on some initial research ICSOC/ServiceWave2009
Behaviors that are good for science, and in particular for the problem of information overhead +How we can bring interesting and relevant content to scientist? And therefore to understand and define the dimensions of what is scientific content How we can enable behaviours that are good for science? -enable early sharing -having people giving feedback How can the new publication mechanism benefit from the Web? What are the processes to follow How can we enable new possibilities?! We have defined an early model based on some initial research ICSOC/ServiceWave2009
Behaviors that are good for science, and in particular for the problem of information overhead +How we can bring interesting and relevant content to scientist? And therefore to understand and define the dimensions of what is scientific content How we can enable behaviours that are good for science? -enable early sharing -having people giving feedback How can the new publication mechanism benefit from the Web? What are the processes to follow How can we enable new possibilities?! We have defined an early model based on some initial research ICSOC/ServiceWave2009
As soon as the contribution becomes relevant to you.. ICSOC/ServiceWave2009
Some scenarios are more developed (specially the first one) than others. So, we would probably spend more time on them.
Fabio, Paco, Stefan want to do a LB togheter (e.g. “ Smart Web 2.0 applications” ) Each professor wants to obtain tailored and packaged teaching material for the class. They feel that by sharing their books/lecture notes can only get better each one of them has a different area of expertise they will put together their competences and materials, that already have or that are writing, to "compose" the LB. The three authors have many overlapping competences, although each of them has a field in which he is stronger. They all teach classes related to this topic, with different Teaching material they have includes slides, lecture notes, exercises, reference literature, etc.). --------------------------- It is unrealistic to assume that an author can just take somebody else's content and put it into their book without any change. Some, at least minimal, changes are always needed (references, terminology)
In this first scenario we have a small set of authors, not so much content, authors just started the LB, and we suppose they use whatever system they prefer to share content and collaborate: svn-like, launchpad, etc. Moreover we consider for simplicity, that the final output is just a pdf with a companion web site)
have some guarantee that "their" content will be used appropriately. N o one want "to loose control" on their content (does everybody need to agree on all editions that anybody publishes?). If Stefan changes Paco content (given that Stefan is allowed to do that) to adapt that to his class, what if Paco does not like that content and does not approve that change?
Let us imagine that Fabio has written a document A, then Stefan takes this doc and modifies it (doc A2), then Paco takes this content A2 and modify it again (A3). Should the authors be notified of this changes? Probably yes. Then if Fabio takes his content A and modify it, creating content AB should Paco and Stefan be notified that the seed document has been modified?
Approval policies : once somebody reuses my content, do I require my approval on the final version to see that my content has been used appropriately and interpreted correctly? - Policies to opt out : if I do not want to be part of this team anymore, and I want to opt out, what happens to my content? I probably cannot just delete my content, also because other authors have already taken that and modified it and included it in their books.
Once Stefan has taken some content from Paco's and Fabio's one, he will have edited that, changed/added something and then arranged the new content in a new book tailored for his class of "Web 2.0 applications". Now the problem is: who is the author of the book? and, how to decide this? It is clear that Stefan did the main work, but he took content that Fabio and Paco have written. Possible solutions could be: - Stefan is listed as main author (a sort of editor), and Fabio and Paco are listed as contributors (but on the main cover); - The three authors are listed simply "as authors", without any distinction; - Stefan is listed as the only author, but inside the book, for each section there is the indication of who wrote/inspired/initiate the section itself. - There is authorship with the description of what each contributed, what has been reused, extent of changes, etc.... -...
There are lots of platforms that should support the collaborative writing: svn, gdocs, wiki, etc. However each one of that lacks some support for different tasks. Some platforms, like gdocs, are in principle very simple to use, while lacking lots of features (like ...), some others are more complete, but sometime require a learning effort that discourage the user to deal with that. Also: how much can the IT do for us?
ICSOC/ServiceWave2009
The Web has changed the way we get, share, produce and consume scientific content. We have now new formats and new types of scientific content: We have blogs, papers, datasets.. provided by a variety of services on the Internet. Publishing is almost free. In traditional and non traditional sources. The problem has become, for the readers. How do I get interesting an relevant content? For the authors, how do I make my work visible? The problem is now the attention [Huberman] ICSOC/ServiceWave2009
New content, when the idea is to bring interesting collections to users. ICSOC/ServiceWave2009