Science as Conversation, Conversation as Science

Slide 1: Science as Conversation, Conversation as Science PF Anderson, Emerging Technologies Librarian, Health Sciences Libraries, University of Michigan, pfa@umich.edu

Slide 2: Dialogue 3 Plato & Socrates http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Plato_Aristotle_della_Robbia_OPA_Florence.jpg

Slide 3: Early scientific literature 3 Early science journals preserved discussions 3 Stenographers transcribed discussion & debate

Slide 4: Research as conversation 3 Marshall-Gies Salivary Factor debate William Gies

Slide 5: Scientific publication cycle 3 http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/ environment/imt220/pubcycle.jpg

Slide 6: Garrett Lisi 3 http://sifter.org/~aglisi/

Slide 7: Lisi blogs 3 http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/ 108

Slide 8: Lisi’s Theory of Everything 3 http://www.arxiv.org/pdf/0711.0770

Slide 9: Model of Lisi’a E8 figure

Slide 10: More about Garrett Lisi 3 http://www.slideshare.net/umhealthscie nceslibraries/a-preliminary-forensic- exploration-of-a-scientific-social- technologies-success-the-garrett-lisi- story

Slide 11: Where is the scientific conversation now?

Slide 12: Where is the scientific conversation now?

Slide 13: Science Discourse & Scientific Memory have to map the archival pathways that 3 “We constitute the scientific memory. Only then will we be able to develop strategies that meld with the ongoing practice of science, instead of just cleaning up its messes.” 3 McCarthy, Gavan; Sherratt, Tim. Mapping Scientific Memory: understanding the role of record-keeping in scientific practice. Archives and Manuscripts 24(1) May 1996, <http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/pubs/articles/gjm/mapsci mem.htm>

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Slide 21: Conversation now 3 How do: 3 social technologies facilitate conversations? 3 these conversations change the nature of science, research, the academy? 3 these conversations impact on libraries & archives? 3 we discover where the conversations are happening? 3 we become part of the important conversations? 3 we remember & preserve the conversation? 3 Where are we in the conversation?