Liquid Journals - Intro and RoadMap

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
Small or medium-focused research project funded by the European Commission under FP7 FET OPEN (Future and Emerging Technologies) scheme
Runs from May 2008 till April 2011
Budget of 2.1M €
Partners
University of Trento, Italy
Spanish National Research Council, Spain
Springer, Germany
Centre National de la RechercheScientifique, France
University of Fribourg, Switzerland
eSI Workshop, Edinburgh, 12 May 2010
Aliaksandr Birukou – Liquid Journals: An approach for knowledge dissemination in the Web era
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Goal of the LiquidPub project
Capture the lessons learned and opportunities provided by:
the Web and open source,
agile development
to develop
concepts, models, metrics, and tools
for an efficient (for people),
effective (for science),
and sustainable (for publishers and the community)
way of creating, disseminating, evaluating, and consuming scientific knowledge
Understand what’s good for science, and make it happen
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What do we do in LiquidPub?
See http://project.liquidpub.org/research-areas
Scientific Knowledge Objects
Research evaluation and peer review analysis
Managing lifecycle of web artifacts
Discovering scientific communities
Licensing and copyright
Three case studies:
Liquid Journals
Liquid Books (collaborative creation of [not only] teaching material)
Liquid Conferences (platform for interdisciplinary conferences where invited papers are presented for community discourse)
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Motivating Scenario
What’s the goal of journals today?
Select and group related content, after a submission of a paper
Useful to find content, useful (?) to evaluate
What’s under the hood?
Print/ship cost money: need to be sure it’s good before it is published. Only way peer review
“issues”/volumes needed for printing and organizational reasons
Probably the best possible model in the pre-web era
Scarce resource was printing and distribution

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The Web Era
The Web has changed the way we get, share, produce and consume scientific content
Internet

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The Web Era
15 review to do by tomorrow…
Also social changes..
Reviewers
The scarce resource now is the attention [Huberman]
How do I get interesting content!
How do I make my work visible!
So much info out there - I’d rather go for known sources!
Authors
Readers

Journals: Revisited
Original reasons for the current model are gone
(does not necessarily mean current model is still not the best)
Back to the roots: How to provide interesting content?
datasets
papers
blogs
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Liquid journals: Proposal
… to broader community
...with colleagues, friends, other people working on the same topic…
..already available on the Web, in pre-prints, journals, proceedings, blogs…

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 journal
Collection of (interesting and relevant) links to scientific resources (contributions, projects, events, people, …)
LJ do not host content, just link it
Possibly defined as a query over the Web
Selected by editors (Possibly based on defined procedures)
Offered by a publisher
May change continuously and may have issues (snapshots)
Users may define relations between resources

Relationship types (examples)
Temporal (e.g., next_version)
Representation (e.g., alternative_repr_of)
Structural (e.g., performed_on, reporting_on)
Authorship (contributed, edited,…)

Step 1
Filling journal with content

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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Demos from Share http://is.tm.tue.nl/staff/pvgorp/share/
Workflows and files from http://www.MyExperiment.org
Videos: http://VideoLectures.net/, http://redress.lancs.ac.uk/
Links from Facebook, DBLP, ACM Digital Library, Springerlink
All those are subject to availability of API and Terms of Use
From citation snippets

Step 2
Organizing content

Cooking area, sharing and annotating
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Your
Tags
And
Opinions
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

Adding relations
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Navigation
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Research lines and reuse
Multiple facets of contribution

Step 3
Publishing journal

Making a new issue
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After publishing
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Traditional
vs.
Novel metrics
(5 new)

Step 4
Consuming journals

Information about journals I follow, where I appear, etc.
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My subscriptions
Filters
»
Authors
Peer review (5 new)
Fabio
Juan
Alejandro
Scientific metrics (7 new)
Communities
LJs publishing me
Computer Science
Physics
Biology
Scientific metrics
Tags
UNITN-DB-Group
Peer-review
Scientific publ
Sources
LJs I edit
Springer
Arxiv
Lifecycle Management
Time
Data integration

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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This info can come from Liquid Journals
From https://copilosk.fbk.eu/

Social networks
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LJ I edit
LJ I follow

Not just reading…
Navigating
Sharing
Linking and annotating (selfishly)
Better search and management of info overload
Knowledge extraction from readers/editors
Efficient dissemination
Publish what I want, when I want, how I want, then deliver it through the information pipes
Make evolution of ideas explicit
Reuse implicit review that people do anyways when selecting content for their own purposes

…there are some shortcomings
Do I get tenure
if my paper appear in a LiquidJournal?
If I am a good editor of an LJ (good content selector)
Would people use LJ?
We don’t know yet, but try to develop it so that WE can use it
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…but there are also benefits
Readers get interesting and relevant scientific content
Multi-faceted: blogs, papers, datasets, etc..
Peer-reviewed vs. non peer-reviewed
Diverse content
Authors get real-time dissemination and evaluation
Consider other aspects of research productivity: good selector, good ideas, good reviewer, incentives for early sharing
Benefits for editors:
Publish first, then gain acceptance (even if you a student)
Try with new community (e.g. new interdisciplinary area) and see if it really worth a journal
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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
The LiquidPub project. http://project.liquidpub.org
Google liquidpub-announce and subscribe if you are interested (VERY low traffic): http://disi.unitn.it/mailman/listinfo/liquidpub-announce
Or, subscribe to our blog: http://liquidpub.wordpress.com
Or, follow us on twitter: http://twitter.com/liquidpub
Participate in our surveys:
Scientific publishing and Web 2.0 - http://tinyurl.com/LPSurvey2010
Rank scientists (and fight metrics) at http://tinyurl.com/icwesurvey

Ranking Researchers via Peer-Voting
Rank researchers via voting
1st Step: conduct surveys to gather votes reflecting the perceived impact of researchers
2nd Step: correlate votes with bibliometric indicators of impact using voting-based ranking algorithms
How to participate: http://tinyurl.com/icwesurvey
2 to 20 minutes (you choose!!!)

Thanks for your attention

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