Life Scientists Go Online - UKSG 2010

Life Scientists go online - collaboration, communication and credit Lucy Power Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford UKSG, 13 April 2010

Outline1. Background2. What is Friendfeed?3. How it’s being used4. Outcomes5. Impact

Marginaliahttp://www.christies.com/lotfinderimages/d48412/d4841200x.jpg http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/exhibits/herbal/26.jpg

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Outcomes Securing funding Writing grant applications Collaborating Discussing scienceConference reporting PublishingSolving scientific problems Searching and finding

Outcomes - funding

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Outcomes - publishing

Outcomes - publishing“Id also be remiss if I didnt also note the critical roleonline collaboration played in this effort. Of theseven coauthors on this paper, two Ive met only oncein real life, and two Ive never met in person. Weare spread over four cities, five organizations, andnine time zones. Initiating and executing thiscollaboration happened virtually entirely online, aidedby the FriendFeed Life Scientists room andMolecular and Cellular Biology WikiProject atWikipedia. It was an eye-opener in terms of howeffective online collaboration can be done.”– Andrew Su http://biogps.blogspot.com/2009/09/gene-wiki-update-paper.html

Saunders, N., Beltrao, P., Jensen, L., Jurczak, D., Krause, R., Kuhn, M. et al.(2009). Microblogging the ISMB: A New Approach to Conference Reporting.PLoS Comput Biol, 5(1).

From marginalia to Friendfeed…- Speed (obviously) – answers at the speed of the Internet- Network effects – connecting with people you didn’t know in your field, other fields and disciplines, and their connections (strength of weak ties)- Informality – lower barriers to entry- Openness – ideas are traceable from genesis to publication- Global distribution of discussion

From marginalia to Friendfeed II…- Field/Disciplinary differences- Work habits – managing time- Information selection – filtering the volume (the disadvantages of scale)- Ephemeral – no formal archiving strategies

If you’re using online tools for research or toassist researchers, please feel free to come and chat to me today and tomorrow! Lucy Power DPhil Candidate Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford Supervised by Dr Ralph Schroeder and Dr Eric M. Meyer lucy.power@oii.ox.ac.uk

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