Stephan Gauch & Clemens Blümel talk about scientific knowledge dissemination and Altmetrics & present OpenUP research work. Workshop title: Innovative dissemination practices & Altmetrics Workshop abstact: The goal of the workshop is to further the understanding of innovative dissemination practices in open science and their relationship with altmetrics. In the first part of the workshop, OpenUP project researchers will give an overview of an innovative dissemination framework. The framework describes good practices and gives recommendations on how to create a successful research dissemination strategy beyond traditional academic dissemination. A special focus will lie on how to reach target audiences beyond the research community (e.g. business or the general public). Participants will be able to test the framework and a toolbox based on their dissemination needs and to give feedback in a discussion that involves the perspective of all stakeholders of dissemination and assessment (researchers and research organizations, funders, policy makers, journalists, practitioners & businesses etc.). In the second part, we will present a taxonomy linking channels of dissemination and altmetrics indicators. In between, we will present best practice examples of innovative dissemination. DAY 2 - PARALLEL SESSION 3 http://opensciencefair.eu/workshops/parallel-day-2-1/innovative-dissemination-practices-and-altmetrics

1. 1
OpenUp Workshop
“Scientific
knowledge
dissemination and
altmetrics”

2. 2
The medium is the worth?
• “Doing Science” and “Science made
public” (Social Media, Microblogging, blogging)
• Explain & Entertain (Slides, Multimedia Content)
• Organizing Attribution (Reference Management
& Recommending)
• Reproducability (Code, Data)
• Empowering others & signifying expertise
(Q&A Forums)
• Stabilizing knowledge (Online encyclopedias)
• Evidence based policy (Policy Documents)

3. 3
Social Science Juniors
Society
Appreciate
Inform
Disseminate
Code Repositories
OpenLabBooks
GenSocialNet
PodcastVideo
Wikipedia
RadioTV
Art
Blogs
PrintMedia
PopScience
Press
PublicEvents
OARepositories
Newsletters
AcadSocialNet
ProjectWebsite
Conferences
AcademicPub
0 20 40 60 80 100
Value
05101520
Color Key
and Histogram
Count

4. 4
Taxonomical tree of
Dissemination Channels based
on OpenUp survey

5. 5
Typology of Dissemination
Channel “Packages”
• Traditional academia channels (Academic
Publishing, Conferences)
• Traditional PUSH Channels (Press, Radio,
TV, Popular Science Books, Public Events)
• Innovative Science 2.0 PUSH channels
(Art, Wikis, Generic Social Networks,
Podcasts & Videos)
• Progress Channels (Blogs, Project
Websites, Newsletters, Print Media)
• Sharing Channels (Open Lab Books, OA
Repositories, Academic Social Networks,
Code Repositories)

6. Sources for the
metrics branch
of the taxonomy
• OpenUp survey
• Desk research
• Expert Interviews
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7. 7
Example of Taxonomy table

8. 8
What’s likely to be relevant in
the near future?
• Narrative perspective on altmetrics (How can
we use altmetrics to signify worth? Can we?)
• Reflexive perspective (How do altmetrics feed
back into science?)
• The medium is the worth? (How does the worth
of the medium interact with the value system in
science?)
• Content-based perspective (What do we count?
Who engages? With what? How? Why?)
• Understanding gaming effects (Offerbots,
(Re-)tweet farms, “social media suppliers”)

9. 9The OpenUP project received funding through the H2020 Framework Programme, GA No:
710722
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Stephan Gauch
Clemens Blümel