e-Research: A Social Informatics Perspective

e-Research: A Social Informatics Perspective Eric T. Meyer Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford 31 Oct 2008: Talk presented to the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA Oxford e-Social Science Project

The Growth of Teams Source: S. Wuchty et al., (2007). The Increasing Dominance of Teams in Production of Knowledge. Science 316, 1036 -1039.

Oxford e-Social Science Project

GAIN: Genetic Association Information Network

34 46 58 51 39 57 Data reqs

GeoVUE Node & Legal Issues Virtual London Image Source: Hudson-Smith, Digital Urban Blog at http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2007/08/ordnance-survey-and-google-statements.html

GeoVUE Node Virtual London Image Source: Hudson-Smith, Digital Urban Blog at http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2007/08/ordnance-survey-and-google-statements.html

Open Science / Science 2.0

MapTube

JOVE Characteristics

The Pynchon Wiki: Charting Pynchon Online Activity Anticipation Annotation And what’s next? Source: Schroeder, R., & Besten, M. D. (2008). Literary Sleuths Online: e-Research collaboration on the Pynchon Wiki. Information, Communication & Society, 11 (2), 167 - 187.

Weisenburger vs . the Wiki on Pynchon Comparison of book and wiki annotation efforts Source: Schroeder, R., & Besten, M. D. (2008). Literary Sleuths Online: e-Research collaboration on the Pynchon Wiki. Information, Communication & Society, 11 (2), 167 - 187. Annotation Size (no. of words) Entries (topical + alphabetical + page-by-page) Contributors Book Form Annotation: Weisenburger’s Gravity’s Rainbow 162000 904 1 (22) Wiki: Against the Day 455057 120 + 1358 + 4067 235

Top-Down e-Infrastructure Meets Bottom-Up Research Innovation Fitting e-Social Science Visions to the Realities Eric Meyer & William Dutton Oxford e-Social Science Node of UK National Centre for eSocial Science Source: Meyer, Eric T. and Dutton, William H., “ Top-Down e-Infrastructure Meets Bottom-Up Research Innovation: Fitting e-Social Science Visions to the Realities " (Sept 1, 2008). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1262211. Submitted to Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A.

Sample

Bias of the Sample

Type of Research

Certainty Trough or Experience Technology

Source: Dutton & Meyer 2008

Evidence for Uncertainty Trough Source: Dutton, W.H. & Meyer, E.T. (2008). “e-Social Science as an Experience Technology: Distance from, and Attitudes Toward, E-Research“. Presentation for the 4th International Conference on e-Social Science, University of Manchester, 19 June 2008. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1150422

Certainty Trough or Experience Technology

Evidence for an Experience Technology Source: Dutton, W.H. & Meyer, E.T. (2008). “e-Social Science as an Experience Technology: Distance from, and Attitudes Toward, E-Research“. Presentation for the 4th International Conference on e-Social Science, University of Manchester, 19 June 2008. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1150422

Researcher Clusters

Types of Researchers

Use of Data Sets

Gauging the Impact of e-Research in the Social Sciences Eric T. Meyer Ralph Schroeder Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford Meyer, E.T., Schroeder, R. (Submitted). Gauging the Impact of e-Research in the Social Sciences. Submitted to Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A.

Publications in e-Research

Publication Patterns by Discipline Social Sciences (n=175) Computer Science (n=749)

Fields, Citations and Authors

Field intersection

Publications and Interdisciplinarity Figure 3. Map showing number of articles by field, and article interdisciplinarity Source: Data retrieved from Scopus using sample search terms; image created with Microsoft Excel .NetMap plugin

Title word clouds by discipline

Transatlantic Digitisation

World Wide Web of Humanities project

WWWoH Test Collections Source: Meyer, Madsen, Schroeder (2008).

Usage and Impact Study of JISC-funded Phase 1 Digitisation Projects & Toolkit for the Impact of Digitised Scholarly Resources Eric T. Meyer, Kathryn Eccles, Christine Madsen, Ralph Schroeder, William H. Dutton, Mike Thelwall Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford

Project 1 – Online Historical Population Reports (OHPR/Histpop)

Project 2 – British Library 19th Century Newspapers

Project 3 – British Library Sound Archive

Project 4 – British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service (BOPCRIS): 18th Century Official Parliamentary Publications Portal 1688-1834

Project 5 – Medical journals: the backfiles project

TIDSR Toolkit

Quantitative Measures

Webometrics

Analytics

Log file analysis

Scientometrics / bibliometrics

Content analysis of media coverage

Qualitative Measures

Stakeholder interviews (project & institutional personnel, user communities, subject specialists, funding bodies)

Resource surveys

User feedback analysis

Focus groups

Questionnaires

Webometrics

Webometrics

Analytics

Log file analysis

Resource surveys

Focus groups

Questionnaires

Webometrics

Analytics

Log file analysis

Resource surveys

Focus groups

Questionnaires

Analytics

Webometrics

Analytics

Log file analysis

Resource surveys

Focus groups

Questionnaires

Log File Analysis

Webometrics

Analytics

Log file analysis

Resource surveys

Focus groups

Questionnaires

Webometrics

Analytics

Log file analysis

Resource surveys

Focus groups

Questionnaires

Log File Analysis

Webometrics

Analytics

Log file analysis

Resource surveys

Focus groups

Questionnaires

Log File Analysis

Webometrics

Analytics

Log file analysis

Resource surveys

Focus groups

Questionnaires

Bibliometrics

Webometrics

Analytics

Log file analysis

Resource surveys

Focus groups

Questionnaires

Content Analysis

TIDSR Toolkit

Webometrics

Analytics

Log file analysis

Resource surveys

Focus groups

Questionnaires

WWWoH and TIDSR Release

Project ending event scheduled for 19 March 2009 in Oxford

Details will be provided on: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/project.cfm?id=51

Project URLs:

HistPop: http://www.histpop.org

Newspapers: http://www.bl.uk/collections/britishnewspapers1800to1900.html

British Library Sound archive: http://sounds.bl.uk/

BOPCRIS: http://www.bopcris.ac.uk

Medical backfiles: http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_WTD037630.html

Oxford e-Social Science Project

Online visibility and Gatekeeping Source: Meyer, E.T., Schroeder, R. (Submitted). The World Wide Web of Research and Access to Knowledge. Submitted to Social Science Computer Review.

OII Teaching

http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/teaching/

Summer Doctoral Programme

MSc in the Social Science of the Internet

DPhil in Information, Communication and the Social Sciences

Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford Eric T. Meyer [email_address] http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/meyer Slides available at: http://www.slideshare.net/etmeyer Oxford e-Social Science Project