Presentation at Science@You, Nancy June 2015 on the use of curation with Scoop.it for Open Knowledge management

1. CURATION for OKM
Open Knowledge Management
• In Life Sciences (Immunology)
• Using SCOOP.IT
Keeping abreast of scientific
information in an overload context!
A new way of learning, teaching, doing
research, mediating science
Pr GC Faure, MD, PhD
May 2015, Science&You, Nancy

2. KM: Knowledge Management
• Knowledge management
– Surfing the information wave
– Learning, Teaching, Research
– Professionnal: Watching... managerial
approach
• Methods and tools to identify and capitalize
knowledge
– For Individuals (MDs, patients)
– For Groups (Labs, Units, Companies)
• Science Watch (professionals)
• or simply curiosity (laypeople)?
• Life-long learning

3. Once upon a time..
• Keeping abreast of scientific
information...
– Was using Current Contents
» Nowadays, the world has changed
– Curation appeared recently on stage,
on top of SEOs (Search Engine
Optimization)

4. Grey Literature
since end of 90's,
• Thesis, Reports
• Patents
• Scientific News Magazines
• Press releases
• Internet
– Websites, Blogs, Tweets..
– Social networks...RSS flux
– So much information... it becomes
grey

5. Internet +
OPEN Revolution
• Scholarly publishing
– Exponential growth (Med 2 papers/mn)
– From OPEN Source softwares to OPEN
Access literature (Gold or Green)
• + Internet
» How do endusers search?: GOOGLE

6. Recent Evolutions
and Concerns
• Too much information is killing
information... and knowledge
– Surinformation, Pollution informationnelle,
Harcèlement textuel
– Infobesity
• Networking
– From individuals and communities of
interest
– To (social) networks

7. CURATION for knowledge
management
What is curation?
– Concept
– Tools
• Scoop.it! Vs other tools
• Experiences with Scoop.it in immunology
• Other experiences for
– Other fields of Research,
– Science mediation
– Information literacy

8. Data Curation vs
Knowledge Curation
.... the process of establishing and developing long term
repositories of digital assets for current and future
reference by researchers, scientists, historians, and
scholars.
Enterprises are starting to utilize digital curation to improve the
quality of information and data within their operational and
strategic processes..
• A recent concept
– USA 2009, France 2011

9. Curation is... gold panning
and goldsmith
• Selection
– Editorialisation
– Agregation, distillation,
• Comment
– Elevation, mashup
• Diffusion
– Sharing

10. Curation tools (32)
• Google news
• Pearltrees, Paper.li, Pinterest, TumblR,
Storify, Sharezy, Flipboard...
• Scoop.it
– A french and californian start-up
– Various plans (Individual, Educational, Business)
– Growing 2014: >1,5M curators, >75M posts, 150M
Visitors, 3K companies
» Crawling tool +++

11. Curation possibilities
• Two major
– Keeping abreast of information either
published or grey
– Building of databases (personal or common)
» Curation is
– Commenting, taging
– Sending through e-mail,
– Sharing through tweets, linkedin, pinterest,
tumblr,
– Sending Newsletters
» Another kind of social network

12. Enrichment
and Access
Building of specific databases
(/individual or group curation)
Crawling of internet through keywords
• Use of applet to download
• Creation of scoops + Slideshare...
• Reloading of scoops from other
members of network, followed topics
• Finding again with a dedicated search
engine

13. Topics covered
with colleagues from SFI, Portugal, Spain, France...
• Basic Science, Biotechnologies, BioTherapies
– Immunology (5K scoops, >27K visitors, >35K
views)
– From flow cytometry to Cytomics (3.2K sc, 5.6K vis,
11.6K views)
– Immunology and Biotherapies (4.6K sc, 3.6K vis, 7.7K
views)
– Mucosal Immunity (2K sc, 1.7K vis, 3.5K views)
• Immuno-Pathology
– Autoimmunity, (1K sc, 1.7K vis, 2.8K views)
– Allergy, (1.5K sc, 1.1K vis, 2.5K views)
– Neuroimmunology...
• History of immunology

14. Other Immunology projects
using Scoop.it
• Consultancy
– K Maggon Immuno therapies
Biotherapies 10 topics
• Individual teachers and researchers
– MdC Nancy Immune monitoring
– RC NY USA Diabetes
– JL USA Complement and PNH 10 topics
– AC Spain Immune diagnosis
– XW China ENT
– MH Nancy allergie alimentaire
» Vs resources using other curation tools:
Pinterest, TumblR, PaperLi, Flipboard

15. Other Life Sciences active
topics
• Chris Upton + Helpers U.Victoria
– Virology and bioinformatics 77K
– Next Generation sequencing
• C.Jacquet, IPM Lab Toulouse 56K
– Plants immunity, pathogens...
• D Blanchard 4.4K
– Biotech Pharma innovation
• Institut Pasteur de Tunis 17K
• Journées Internationales Biologie 19K

16. Scientific mediation
for students, and laypeople
• Nancy: portfolio training, stage de 3ème
Alan Yvon
• Goulu Café des Sciences 317K
• Joel de Rosnay: Le Carrefour du Futur
3.3K
• Geography Seth Dixon 950K

17. Curation is for
knowledge management of ...
• Teachers
– Thought leadership and life long learning
» Trainees:
– Basic training and life long learning
• Collectivities
– Scientific Society, Academy
– Interest Network: GEIL, Coultry Club
– Research Labs
– Companies (UtoB? University to Business)

18. CURATION ....
Is Scoop.it the answer
– Purpose: Knowledge watching
– Material: information on internet
• From « dog manure » to GOLD
digging
– Methods:among many other tools
• Choice of Scoop it
– Results: 4 years experience
– Not just another social network!

19. Curating with Scoop it
Share ideas that matters
• A day to day duty for scientists
and researchers like « Walking
the dog »
• Scoop it: a virtual space
– to collect and keep highly selected
informations
• As well as others scooped by
other curators in your community
– to find them when required

20. Summary
• Probably the best curation tool on the web for
serious information
– Crawling engine and enrichment capacities
• A virtual scientific news « journal » and
database easy to browse with pictures
– For information literacy and curiosity
– Search engine inside is a major asset
• The human factor of curation is the added
value compared to robots (SEO): selection,
editorialism
• And the limit, requiring everyday work

21. Acknowledgments
• GC Faure
– PUPH, Consultant
– Ex Maître-Toile du site de l'ASSIM
– Immunologiste clinicien et biologiste
• Special thanks to Guillaume Decugis
CEO of Scoop.it, and to active
scoopiteers
• No conflicts of interest declared!