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

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

Plato & Socrates

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

Early science journals preserved discussions

Stenographers transcribed discussion & debate

Research as conversation Marshall-Gies Salivary Factor debate William Gies

Marshall-Gies Salivary Factor debate

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

http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/environment/imt220/pubcycle.jpg

Garrett Lisi http://sifter.org/~aglisi/

http://sifter.org/~aglisi/

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

http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/108

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

http://www.arxiv.org/pdf/0711.0770

Model of Lisi’a E8 figure

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

http://www.slideshare.net/umhealthscienceslibraries/a-preliminary-forensic-exploration-of-a-scientific-social-technologies-success-the-garrett-lisi-story

Where is the scientific conversation now?

Where is the scientific conversation now?

Science Discourse & Scientific Memory “ We have to map the archival pathways that 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.” McCarthy, Gavan; Sherratt, Tim. Mapping Scientific Memory: understanding the role of record-keeping in scientific practice. Archives and Manuscripts 2 4( 1 ) May 1996, < http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/pubs/articles/gjm/mapscimem.htm>

“ We have to map the archival pathways that 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.”

McCarthy, Gavan; Sherratt, Tim. Mapping Scientific Memory: understanding the role of record-keeping in scientific practice. Archives and Manuscripts 2 4( 1 ) May 1996, < http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/pubs/articles/gjm/mapscimem.htm>

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

How do:

social technologies facilitate conversations?

these conversations change the nature of science, research, the academy?

these conversations impact on libraries & archives?

we discover where the conversations are happening?

we become part of the important conversations?

we remember & preserve the conversation?

Where are we in the conversation?