Social Technologies for Informaticians and Researchers

Slide 1: Social Technologies (Web 2.0) for Informatics & Research Patricia F. Anderson <pfa@umich.edu> UM Health Sciences Libraries © 2007 Regents of the November 28, 2007 University of Michigan. All rights reserved.

Slide 2: Outline • Background: Social tech and scholarly publication • What are social technologies? • Professional social communities • Informatics in general social tech tools • Informatics & research 2.0 – Open science • Social tech for research • Crowdsourcing • Potential concerns • Case study

Slide 3: Social Tech and Scholarly Publication • University of Washington Libraries: Scientific Publication Cycle <http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/ environment/imt220/pubcycle.jpg>

Slide 4: Social Tech and Scholarly Publication • Publishing without the academic infrastructure? • Problematic

Slide 5: Social Tech and Scholarly Publication • Publication 200 years ago – Soapbox model • Say what you want to say • If you have the money to print it • Copyright 200 years ago – Nurtured the creative process – Facilitated connection between the creator and the consumer

Slide 6: Social Tech and Scholarly Publication • Scholarly publication 50 years ago – Peer review – Publisher driven • Copyright 50 years ago – Purpose of copyright inverted • ‘Feeds’ the publisher and middle man • Creative process driven by tenure and grants

Slide 7: Social Tech and Scholarly Publication • Via the web and social tech, we are returning to our beginnings Graphic: Interarchive

Slide 8: Social Tech and Scholarly Publication • Interarchive.org

Slide 9: Social Tech and Scholarly Publication • What will drive scholarly publication? • Recognition metrics

Slide 10: What Social Technologies Are All About • Collaboration & community – Who are your people? – Who do you want to tell what? – Who do you want information from?

Slide 11: Tim O’Reilly on Web 2.0 • Slide from his talk, one week ago, in Europe • How did I get it? • Social tech -- Slideshare • http://www.slidesha re.net/adunne/what -is-web-20-157107/

Slide 12: Social Technologies Are … • “Essentially, the Web is shifting from an international library of interlinked pages to an information ecosystem, where data circulate like nutrients in a rain forest.” – Johnson, Steven. “Emerging Technology: Software upgrades promise to turn the Internet into a lush rain forest of information teeming with new life.” Discover Magazine 10.24.2005

Slide 13: Social Technologies Are … • Web 2.0 • Social tech • Social media • Social computing • Social networking • Relationship media

Slide 14: Social Technologies Are … • Example Types: • Example Tools: – – Blogs Del.icio.us – – Citation Sharing Facebook – – Collaboratories Flickr – – Email Groups Second Life – – Forums Slideshare – – Social Bookmarking Twitter – – Wikis YouTube

Slide 15: Professional Organizations as Communities • Example: IADMFR

Slide 16: Professional Organizations as Communities • Member forums, newsletters, meetings, etc.

Slide 17: Professional Organizations as Communities • Email lists for professional community

Slide 18: Professional Organizations as Communities • Discussion topics and image sharing

Slide 19: Informatics in General Social Tech Tools: Sharing • Social bookmarking

Slide 20: Informatics in General Social Tech Tools: Sharing • Microblogging: Twitter

Slide 21: Informatics in General Social Tech Tools: Sharing • Image sharing: Flickr

Slide 22: Informatics in General Social Tech Tools: Sharing • Video sharing: Youtube

Slide 23: Informatics in General Social Tech Tools: Communities • Facebook: Group: Health Informatics

Slide 24: Informatics in General Social Tech Tools: Communities • Facebook: Group: Informatics Forum

Slide 25: Informatics in General Social Tech Tools: Communities • Informatics groups in Second Life

Slide 26: Informatics in General Social Tech Tools: Collaboration • Nanotechnology Island in Second Life

Slide 27: Informatics in General Social Tech Tools: Collaboration • Wikipedia: Dental informatics

Slide 28: Informatics in General Social Tech Tools: Collaboration • Wikipedia: Dental informatics (stub)

Slide 29: Informatics in General Social Tech Tools: Collaboration • How did I build this graphic? • With an online mindmapping tool • It also makes flowcharts • I can share the picture with my team • I can allow them to make suggestions and edit it.

Slide 30: Informatics & Research 2.0 • Social bookmarking: 2collab, from Elsevier

Slide 31: Informatics & Research 2.0 • Social bookmarking – CiteULike

Slide 32: Informatics & Research 2.0 • Social bookmarking – Connotea, from Nature

Slide 33: Informatics & Research 2.0 • Social bookmarking: Digg

Slide 34: Informatics & Research 2.0: Blogs • Method: http://science.blogdig.net/ • MORE: http://www.slideshare.net/umhealthscie nceslibraries/staying-current-with- science-blogs-wikis/

Slide 35: Informatics & Research 2.0: Blogs Plus • SEED: http://seedmagazine.com

Slide 36: Informatics & Research 2.0: Blogs Plus • Nature: Nascent: Web 2.0 in Science

Slide 37: Informatics & Research 2.0: Blog Communities • My Biotech Life: The DNA Network hits 25

Slide 38: Informatics & Research 2.0: Wikis • Fred Hutchinson Computational Proteomics Laboratory (CPL) Proteomics Repository: https://proteomics.fhcrc.org/CPAS/Project/home/home. view

Slide 39: Informatics & Research 2.0: Wikis • Open Wetware: http://openwetware.org/wiki/Main_Page

Slide 40: Informatics & Research 2.0: Wikis • Proteome Commons: http://www.proteomecommons.org/archi ve.jsp

Slide 41: Informatics & Research 2.0: Research Collaboration

Slide 42: Informatics & Research 2.0: Communities • Social networking: nanohub

Slide 43: Informatics & Research 2.0: Communities • Social networking: Fq(x) community

Slide 44: Informatics & Research 2.0: Communities • Social networking: Science Commons

Slide 45: About Open and Closed Science Open Notebook Science (full transparency) Open Access Journal Article Traditional OPEN Journal Article Traditional Lab Notebook Slide from Jean-Claude Bradley, Open (unpublished) Notebook Science & Malaria, September 6, 2007 CLOSED

Slide 46: About Open and Closed Science • Gunther Eysenbach: Citation Advantage of Open Access Articles. PLoS Biology

Slide 47: Open Science - Proposal • Science in the open: E-Science for Open Science

Slide 48: Open Science • An Experiment in Open Notebook Science - Sortase Mediated Protein- DNA Ligation

Slide 49: Open Science • Useful Chemistry (blog): Definitions in Open Science SFLO Transcript

Slide 50: Open Science • Open Notebook projects, from the Useful Chem Wiki

Slide 51: Social Tech for Research • Research happens – Pubmed article list for Web 2.0 • MN Boulos on Second Life in medical and health education • IS Yang on Infectious Disease Biomarker Database with Web 2.0 elements

Slide 52: Social Tech for Research • Research happens – Pubmed: (myspace OR facebook OR del.icio.us OR youtube OR flickr OR twitter OR "social technology" OR "second life" OR "web 2.0") = 72 results – Google Scholar: (myspace OR facebook OR del.icio.us OR youtube OR flickr OR twitter OR "social technology" OR "second life" OR "web 2.0") (~health OR healthcare OR ehealth OR ~medicine OR ~surgery OR ~clinical OR treatment OR epidemiology OR prognosis OR ~infectious OR therapy OR psychology OR psychiatry OR physician OR ~informatics OR nursing OR "evidence based") = 31,500 results – <http://del.icio.us/rosefirerising/websearch+health2.0>

Slide 53: Social Tech for Research • Ethnicity’s Role in Social Networking

Slide 54: Social Tech for Research • Envisioning feelings on the web

Slide 55: Social Tech for Research • Virtual epidemics in Lancet

Slide 56: Social Tech for Research • Virtual epidemiology

Slide 57: Social Tech for Research • Presenccia: Research encompassing sensory enhancement, neuroscience, cerebral-computer interfaces and applications

Slide 58: Social Tech for Research • Presence and Interaction in Mixed- Reality Environment (10th, 2007) – “Current virtual and augmented realtiy environments try to provide the best realism, while it is simply taken for granted that this leads to the best user=experience. Practice shows that this is not true: users do not easily feel fully engaged in high-tech VR worlds. On the other hand they can feel extremely present in simpler environments, like when chatting on line or when reading a book. The feeling of being there, in other words, is the result of a complex interation of many technological, contextual, biological, cognitive and personal factors, among others.”

Slide 59: Social Tech for Research • NewScientistTech: Anti-social bot invades Second Lifers’ personal space

Slide 60: Crowdsourcing: What is it? • Getting people to volunteer information or resources that you need for your research, with no cost or harm to them

Slide 61: Crowdsourcing: What is it? • Using data for research that other people create and make available freely

Slide 62: Crowdsourcing: What is it? • Crowdsourcing: Tracking the rise of the amateur

Slide 63: Crowdsourcing: Examples: General • Audobon Christmas Bird Count

Slide 64: Crowdsourcing: Examples: General • eBird

Slide 65: Crowdsourcing: Everyone: General • ClimatePrediction.net

Slide 66: Crowdsourcing: Examples: General • The Future Place Blog: Red Lake Crowdsourcing Case Study • UnlockTheValue.com

Slide 67: Crowdsourcing: Examples: General • NASA: Clickworkers

Slide 68: Crowdsourcing: Examples: General • OpenStreetMap

Slide 69: Crowdsourcing: Examples: General • USGS Did You Feel It

Slide 70: Crowdsourcing: Examples: Corporate • Amazon Mechanical Turk

Slide 71: Crowdsourcing: Examples: Corporate • IBM: Many Eyes

Slide 72: Crowdsourcing: Examples: Corporate • innocentive

Slide 73: Crowdsourcing: Health • Using Facebook to trace public health concerns • What else could you track this way?

Slide 74: Crowdsourcing: Health • Geni: Create your family tree • Could you use this to track the historical incidence and genetics of health conditions in the general population?

Slide 75: Crowdsourcing: Health • Houston Chronical Special Report: In Harm’s Way • Tracking toxic chemicals in the water supply by having residents test their own water

Slide 76: Crowdsourcing: Health • World Community Grid: Help Conquer Cancer – Like SETI and Stardust @ Home, uses computing cycles

Slide 77: Crowdsourcing: Health • MedHelp.org • What questions do people ask? Questioning behavior studies.

Slide 78: Crowdsourcing: Health • Organized Wisdom • What resources are considered quality by general public?

Slide 79: Crowdsourcing: Health • Who is Sick? – Condition tracking – Epidemiology and public health

Slide 80: Crowdsourcing: Health • Who is Sick? – Condition tracking – Epidemiology and public health

Slide 81: Crowdsourcing: Health • SLHealthy wiki

Slide 82: Crowdsourcing: Peers • Chemmunity – “an experiment to see whether the internet and Web 2.0 technologies can facilitate a global collaboration to solve interesting and novel chemistry questions”

Slide 83: Crowdsourcing: Peers • Bioforge

Slide 84: Convergence in Social Tech • Medicine and Web 2.0 @ SciFoo live on (Second Life) – Blogs – Podcasts – Social e-communities – Second Life – Wikis

Slide 85: Potential Problems • eHealthRisk Wiki

Slide 86: Potential Problems • The Register: Scientists shun Web 2.0 – Why? – Generational dynamics? – Comfort with adopting tech innovations? – Lack of perceived relevance? – ?????

Slide 87: Potential Problems • Adoption • Skepticism • Integrity • Authority • Version control • Hackers • Engagement • Durability

Slide 88: Solutions? More about Social Tech and Publication Models • arXiv.org - the killer app for science social technologies

Slide 89: Solutions? More about Social Tech and Publication Models • An American Physics Student in England: If Digg (or Reddit) ran the arXiv

Slide 92: Solutions? More about Social Tech and Publication Models • An American Physics Student in England: If Amazon ran the arXiv

Slide 93: Solutions? More about Social Tech and Publication Models • An American Physics Student in England: If Amazon ran the arXiv

Slide 94: Solutions? More about Social Tech and Publication Models • An American Physics Student in England: If Google ran the arXiv

Slide 95: More • Links to these resources and more: – http://del.icio.us/rosefirerising/science2.0/ • More podcasts: – http://www.dentalinformatics.com – http://www.dent.umich.edu/informatics/bootcamp/ – http://www.lib.umich.edu/hsl/podcasts/ • More slide presentations: – http://www.slideshare.net/umhealthscienceslibrarie s/slideshows/

Slide 96: Questions? – Contact: Patricia Anderson at pfa@umich.edu

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