Science 2.0

Science 2.0
Fridolin WildKMi, The Open University
f.wild@open.ac.uk

Outline
Preliminaries
Science 2.0 Support Environments
Featured Duplo Bricks
Science Proxies
Flashmeeting
Conclusion

Before we begin…

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Knowledge could be the delta at the receiver (a paper, a human, a library).
Information could be the quality of a certain signal.
Information could be a logical abstractor.
Science could be about systematically giving birth to information in order to create knowledge
Science, Information, Knowledge

Tools that bring together people and content artefacts in activities that support in constructing and processing information and knowledge.
Early qualitative research: capturing hunting experiences on the cave walls.
... are probably around us ever since the ‚homo habilis‘ started to use more sophisticated stone tools at the beginning of the Pleistocene some two million years ago.
Science SupportEnvironments

Actors (people, artefacts, and tools) in various locations with heterogeneous affiliations, purposes, styles, objectives, etc.
Network effects make the network exponentially more valuable with growing size
To develop a shared understanding is part of the research work because language underspecifies meaning: future ‘cloud’ research will build on it
And at the same time: linguistic relativity (Sapir-Whorf hypothesis): language culture restricts our thinking
Inherently Networks

Science support environmentsare part of the research outcomes!
not a precondition (like data)!
Setting up and maintaining a science support environment is part of the knowledge work: future experiences will be made through it
knowing tools, people, artefacts, and activities ... enables!
Environments = Research Outcome

Emergent behaviour:
observable dynamics show unanticipated activity
Surprising: the participating systems have not been instructed to do so specifically (may even not have intended it)
Designing for Emergence is more powerful than programming by instruction
Why? Occam’s Razor!
Emergence

Science 2.0 Support Environments

The ‘Frankensteining’ of software artefacts and data
Shift locus of control to the end-user
Opportunistic Design (Hartmann et al., 2008; Ncube et al., 2008)
‘Excel Scripting for the Web’
Various Strategies (cf. Gamble & Gamble, 2008)
Mash-Ups

Mash-Up Architecture
(iX 10/2008, Enterprise Mashups, p. 99)

A Platform: MUPPLE.org
{ do s.th. } { for an output }
share bookmarks
{ using http://… }
using distance.ktu.lt/scuttle
Scrutable:
shiftcontroltouser
Analytics: Tracking:
interactions & usage
?
RSS feed
Recommendations: tools, activities, …
Recommendations :patterns
summarize papers
using stellarnet.eu/d/7/1
find papers
using www.objectspot.org

More Duplo: Science Proxies

Tale of two doors
(Erickson, 2007)

Visibility produces awareness
Awareness triggers social norms
Mutual visibility triggers accountability
Which reinforces social norms
Tale of two doors
(Erickson, 2007)

A social proxy is a minimalist graphical representation that makes people and their activities more visible (Erickson, 2007)
A science proxy is a minimalist graphical representation that makes researchers and their research activities more visible
Proxies

ComposerProxy
| TopicProxy | FieldProxy

Interoperable building blocks: allow for re-use
au2au
Relationships in Composition

TopicProxies
| FieldProxy
ComposerProxy |

Topics2000

Topics2008
New Terms in 2008

The mathemagics behind
Meaning Interaction Analysis

FieldProxy
ComposerProxy | TopicProxy |

FieldProxy

Spot unwanted fragmentation
e.g. two authors work on the same topic, but with different collaborator groups and with different literature
Intervention Instrument: automatically recommend to hold a flashmeeting
Bringing together what belongs together
Wild, Ochoa, Heinze, Crespo, Quick (2009, to appear)

Communities are often not very dense, i.e. not resilient
With key persons withdrawing, the network can fragment
Recommend to build additional links, cutting out the middleman
Creating cohesion
Wild, Ochoa, Heinze, Crespo, Quick (2009, to appear)

Live Exploring
nyx.cti.espol.edu.ec/ectel/

More Duplo: Flashmeeting

flashmeeting.com

Conclusion

Recent advances in technology and practiceprovide fascinating new means for open,networked, andself-organisedco-construction of knowledge.
Science 2.0 is social and so are the support environments.
Environments are outcomes of research activity.
Mash-ups, proxies, and flashmeeting are ‘duplos’ that foster emergence.
Up, up, towards a Science 2.0

Beware, the end is near.

Science 2.0 framework

Digital literacy
Knowledge work environments facilitate digital literacy
Acquiring digital literacy, while at the same time (re-)constructing knowledge is better than just (re-) constructing knowledge.
Competence is a potential for action
Acquisition of rich professional competences such as social, self, and methodological competence
... is superior to only acquiring content competence (i.e. Domain-specific skill, facts, rules, ...)
Especially due to ever decreasing half-life of domain-specific knowledge
Construction != Transfer!

AgreementProxy

Science 2.0

by The Open University on Sep 28, 2009

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