Virtual Research Networks : Towards Research 2.0

http://www.series.upatras.gr/european-integration Virtual Research Networks Towards Research 2.0?

User
Workflow
Network
o u t l i n e VREs? Virtual? Research 2.0 Science Networks Libraries?

e x p l o r e
Research Networks
Engage, Facilitate & Stimulate

Me, My Work and the UMCG

http://www.flickr.com/photos/44666479@N00/23435416/sizes/o/

Library Disconnects
&
Bypassing the Library

Photo: Geir Mogen http://www.ntnu.no/gemini/2009_autumn/pictures/feat_on_track.jpg The User Environment

Source: Lorcan Dempsey, Liber 2005

“ Into the User Environment”
Browser Toolbars
Tailor-made search & news widgets
Using personal startpages
Take-Away Library Toolbox : Netvibes Universe

The workflow Photo: Geir Mogen http://www.ntnu.no/gemini/2009_autumn/pictures/feat_on_track.jpg

library Consumer environments Management environment Licensed Bought Faculty& students Digitized Aggregations Resource sharing Integrated local consumer environment? Library web presence Resource sharing, … Source: Lorcan Dempsey, CIC 2007 … Institutional Workflow Portals, CMS, IR, … Personal Workflow RSS, toolbars, .. Network level workflow Google, … Integrated local consumer environment? Library web presence Resource sharing, …

Fill in Your Key Stakeholders …

Diversity Format Platform Time Personalize

Research http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/chm/events/shaw2009/research/

The Global Environment Changed …
The web has become a global laboratory for communication and sharing

http://www.slideshare.net/CameronNeylon/science-in-the-youtube-age-519472

What are Researchers looking for on the Web?
Tools for improving their workflow, to gain efficiency
Communication, sharing, collaboration, dissemination research ideas and output
to possibly get bigger recognition and reward of their research output

Tools for collaboration out there
Planning & Admin
Workflow
Data management
Communication
Sharing
Analysis, statistical
Publishing, (peer) reviewing
Preservation, archiving
Unlimited …

http://www.go2web20.net/

Research 2.0 : some aspects
Communities & collaboration powered by web 2.0
Resources: creating, storing, organising, sharing, exchange, distribution, browsing, searching, re-use, enrich, re-create
Faster, more efficient, greater competetiveness, repeatable, more productive …
Enables open feedback and reviews of work
A machine-understandable format allows others to take the data and analyze it independently

Scientists are certainly looking for it… http:// www.flickr.com / photos / inan /2398401833/ sizes /o/

General Social Software
Blogs, Wiki’s, Social Networks i.g.Facebook
Web-based office tools, Google Docs
Sharing data, references, pictures, videos
Communication, in all sorts
Twitter? PloS
Virtual worlds, Second Life

Virtual Worlds
Strong in visualization, education, teaching, simulation, roleplay ánd worldwide collaborative projects

http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/papers/cgat08/figure_ds.jpg Preprocessed spherical projections from inside a crystal including the Hershfield surface.

http:// secondlife.com http:// www.youtube.com / watch ?v= O1YuRSyzBAE

So they are out there, but doing WHAT exactly?

Corporate Web Presence Scan

OpenWetWare
By Scientists, for Scientists http:// openwetware.org / wiki /Labs

http:// www.proteopedia.org Proteopedia

http:// sciencecommons.org / NeuroCommons

http:// scivee.tv SciVee

http:// openresearch.org OpenResearch

But we also see others offering services…
All kinds of parties explore, using web 2.0 and other new technologies
to connect and integrate into the workflow of scientist and researchers.

Commercially, focus on Scientists

NaturePrecedings
http:// precedings.nature.com /

http://www.mynetresearch.com MyNetResearch

http://www.mendeley.com Mendeley

Biomedexperts
http:// www.biomedexperts.com

“ Community is the new content”
http://seedmagazine.com/images/uploads/15Sci08368.jpg

http://www.geozon.info/2010/04/15/comparison-chart-of-scientific-networks/?utm_source= twitterfeed&utm_medium = ping.fm

'What is happening in the world is bypassing university libraries’ Professor Peter Murray-Rust

Reasons NOT to ignore Social Networks and the tools offered
Efficiency possibilities
Build professional communities
Research
Management
Build learning communities
Build sharing communities
Build community support through outreach
Online Social Networks in Healthcare & Libraries PF Anderson, Emerging Technologies Librarian, Health Sciences Libraries, pfa@umich.edu

More Reasons ….
Connection, communication, collaboration, consultation
Discuss & share information (articles, photos, videos, cases, data, methodologies)
Q&A, rapid response (sometimes), serendipitous discovery
Global, international connections & opportunities
Find employment & research opportunities
Emerging trends, topics, medications, treatments, insights in your field
Online Social Networks in Healthcare & Libraries PF Anderson, Emerging Technologies Librarian, Health Sciences Libraries, pfa@umich.edu

Do we see the libraries look for it as well?
The question is not whether the shift is going to happen, but how fast?
It will change the behaviour of researcher, new ways of thinking and operating; we should adapt

There are the Virtual Research Environments (VREs)
JISC VRE
MS Sharepoint
MyExperiment
D4Science
DARIAH

http:// www.jisc.ac.uk / whatwedo /programmes/ vre.aspx

VLEs for Students & Teachers
VREs for Researchers

Simple VRE Definition
A VRE helps researchers from all disciplines to work collaboratively by managing the increasingly complex range of tasks involved in carrying out research.

Complex VRE Definition
The concept of a VRE is evolving. … as shorthand for the tools and technologies needed by researchers to do their research, interact with other researchers (who may come from different disciplines, institutions or even countries) and to make use of resources and technical infrastructures available both locally and (inter)nationally

frameworks
to define and help to develop VRE frameworks and associated standards, and to encourage the development and population of these frameworks with applications, services and resources to create VREs appropriate to particular needs

Key recommendations

“ Scratch Where It Itches”

Bottom-up &
focus on researchers needs and specific research communities

Community building projects rather than technology project
Creating a VRE is a SOCIAL as much as a technical achievement

Broad Research community effort
Including managers, librarians, champions, promoters

Sustainability
Key role for libraries
Preference for a Web 2.0 style of development and implementation (lightwight, customisable solutions)
Needs to be driven by researchers, rather than being imposed by institution

Benefits
faster research results
novel research directions

Key findings
Providing general VRE Frameworks
One-size-fits-all will not work
Awareness raising is desirable
UK seen as international leader in VRE development
External (web) applications still important
Integration semantic web technology useful
On - location support

FOR LIBRARIES
VREs are seen are good way to feature library resources
Be involved in the creating of digital research output from the start

while the teaching community regards the library as a partner, the research community tends to “do things by itself”
Brown and Swan, 2007

Case Studies
DFG VRE Programme
ReInfra (Norway, Grid)
Science Gateways (Grid, supercomputing)
SURFshare (NL)
TGA Adonis (France)

http:// d4science.org /

Summary (more key points for Libraries)
Communication between researchers and librarians
Play a role in the exchange and sharing of research-based information in social network technologies
Re-define the library, services, it’s systems, to reach: Visibility, Findability, Searchability and Accessibility
Branding and marketing the library: embed & integrate
Libraries should collaborate, communicate, cooperate, facilitate, support learning & research

Strategical Implications
Developing the supporting infrastructure for
Creation
Data management
Communication
Re-focus policy
Staff development & expertise
Soft-, hardware choice
By collaboration and partnership with other organizational parties, but also externally
Collaborative libraries

http://scienceroll.com/2008/05/24/community-sites-for-scientists-and-physicians-the-list/

E ngage, Facilitate & Stimulate
“ Build Networks Together” “ Libraries alone can not change the workflow, just add to it”

Breaking News: Create Expert Community
North Carolina universities opt for Collexis and Scopus to create expert community - 13 Apr 2010
http:// www.knowledgespeak.com/newsArchieveviewdtl.asp?pickUpID = 10011&pickUpBatch =1411#10011

-There is a “battle” going on for the Scientists -
“ They” got their work and data, now “they” want the people as well ..
We should be there first!“

Thank you for your attention!
Guus van den Brekel
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