A presentation at the FISCAR2010 Activity Theory conference in Helsinki on my research on new forms of academic research work using approaches from agile programming and peer production.
V Międzynarodowa Konferencja Naukowa Nauka o informacji (informacja naukowa) w okresie zmian Innowacyjne usługi informacyjne. Wydział Dziennikarstwa, Informacji i Bibliologii Katedra Informatologii, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Warszawa, 15 – 16 maja 2017
V Międzynarodowa Konferencja Naukowa Nauka o informacji (informacja naukowa) w okresie zmian Innowacyjne usługi informacyjne. Wydział Dziennikarstwa, Informacji i Bibliologii Katedra Informatologii, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Warszawa, 15 – 16 maja 2017
V Międzynarodowa Konferencja Naukowa Nauka o informacji (informacja naukowa) w okresie zmian Innowacyjne usługi informacyjne. Wydział Dziennikarstwa, Informacji i Bibliologii Katedra Informatologii, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Warszawa, 15 – 16 maja 2017
Cutting the trees of Knowledge- an article discussing the benefits of open access, and the impact of social software on information gathering and knowledge creation.
V Międzynarodowa Konferencja Naukowa Nauka o informacji (informacja naukowa) w okresie zmian Innowacyjne usługi informacyjne. Wydział Dziennikarstwa, Informacji i Bibliologii Katedra Informatologii, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Warszawa, 15 – 16 maja 2017
V Międzynarodowa Konferencja Naukowa Nauka o informacji (informacja naukowa) w okresie zmian Innowacyjne usługi informacyjne. Wydział Dziennikarstwa, Informacji i Bibliologii Katedra Informatologii, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Warszawa, 15 – 16 maja 2017
V Międzynarodowa Konferencja Naukowa Nauka o informacji (informacja naukowa) w okresie zmian Innowacyjne usługi informacyjne. Wydział Dziennikarstwa, Informacji i Bibliologii Katedra Informatologii, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Warszawa, 15 – 16 maja 2017
Cutting the trees of Knowledge- an article discussing the benefits of open access, and the impact of social software on information gathering and knowledge creation.
Making Web2.0 for science: Co-production of Web2.0 platforms and knowledgeJames Stewart
This paper examines how two contrasting scholarly publishers are responding to the opportunities and challenges of Web 2.0 to innovate their services. Our findings highlight the need to take seriously the role of publishers in the move towards a vision of more rapid and open scholarly communication and to understand the factors that shape their role as intermediaries in the innovation pathways that may be needed to achieve it.
Hand-out to support thinking and re-thinking about graduate attributes for the C21st, particularly how university and college courses develop individuals' capacities to thrive in a digital society.
Notes from attending FORCE2019 conference in Edinburgh (October 15-18), covering a range of topics around Research Communications, e-Scholarship, Open Science and Open Access. Links on last slide for full conference programme and presented materials available online.
Data Science: History repeated? – The heritage of the Free and Open Source GI...Peter Löwe
Data Science is described as the process of knowledge extraction from large data sets by means of scientific
methods. The discipline draws heavily from techniques and theories from many fields, which are jointly used to
furthermore develop information retrieval on structured or unstructured very large datasets. While the term Data
Science was already coined in 1960, the current perception of this field places is still in the first section of the hype cycle according to Gartner, being well en route from the technology trigger stage to the peak of inflated
expectations.
In our view the future development of Data Science could benefit from the analysis of experiences from
related evolutionary processes. One predecessor is the area of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The
intrinsic scope of GIS is the integration and storage of spatial information from often heterogeneous sources, data
analysis, sharing of reconstructed or aggregated results in visual form or via data transfer. GIS is successfully
applied to process and analyse spatially referenced content in a wide and still expanding range of science
areas, spanning from human and social sciences like archeology, politics and architecture to environmental and
geoscientific applications, even including planetology.
This paper presents proven patterns for innovation and organisation derived from the evolution of GIS,
which can be ported to Data Science. Within the GIS landscape, three strategic interacting tiers can be denoted: i) Standardisation, ii) applications based on closed-source software, without the option of access to and analysis of the implemented algorithms, and iii) Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) based on freely accessible program code enabling analysis, education and ,improvement by everyone. This paper focuses on patterns gained from the synthesis of three decades of FOSS development. We identified best-practices which evolved from long term FOSS projects, describe the role of community-driven global umbrella organisations such as OSGeo, as well as the standardization of innovative services. The main driver is the acknowledgement of a meritocratic attitude.
These patterns follow evolutionary processes of establishing and maintaining a web-based democratic culture
spawning new kinds of communication and projects. This culture transcends the established compartmentation and
stratification of science by creating mutual benefits for the participants, irrespective of their respective research
interest and standing. Adopting these best practices will enable
Linking the spaces between unitec research symposium presentationJay_dub
Presentation to the Unitec Institute of Technology annual Research Symposium, 2 October 2014, relating the scale and scope of a community media project in Auckland, New Zealand. The project is comprised of layers: the creation of documentaries for broadcast, with student involvement and community stakeholder engagement, as well as a research component As the work is in progress, this presentation gave the opportunity to review and reflect on the multiple challenges and opportunities inherent in this collaborative work.
Cardboard Hospital - Prototyping Patient-centered Hospital Environments and S...Juha Kronqvist
Cardboard hospital is a real-size prototyping environment for hospital environments and services. It is used in co-designing with patients, staff and architects.
More information: http://designforhealthcare.blogspot.com/
Making Web2.0 for science: Co-production of Web2.0 platforms and knowledgeJames Stewart
This paper examines how two contrasting scholarly publishers are responding to the opportunities and challenges of Web 2.0 to innovate their services. Our findings highlight the need to take seriously the role of publishers in the move towards a vision of more rapid and open scholarly communication and to understand the factors that shape their role as intermediaries in the innovation pathways that may be needed to achieve it.
Hand-out to support thinking and re-thinking about graduate attributes for the C21st, particularly how university and college courses develop individuals' capacities to thrive in a digital society.
Notes from attending FORCE2019 conference in Edinburgh (October 15-18), covering a range of topics around Research Communications, e-Scholarship, Open Science and Open Access. Links on last slide for full conference programme and presented materials available online.
Data Science: History repeated? – The heritage of the Free and Open Source GI...Peter Löwe
Data Science is described as the process of knowledge extraction from large data sets by means of scientific
methods. The discipline draws heavily from techniques and theories from many fields, which are jointly used to
furthermore develop information retrieval on structured or unstructured very large datasets. While the term Data
Science was already coined in 1960, the current perception of this field places is still in the first section of the hype cycle according to Gartner, being well en route from the technology trigger stage to the peak of inflated
expectations.
In our view the future development of Data Science could benefit from the analysis of experiences from
related evolutionary processes. One predecessor is the area of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The
intrinsic scope of GIS is the integration and storage of spatial information from often heterogeneous sources, data
analysis, sharing of reconstructed or aggregated results in visual form or via data transfer. GIS is successfully
applied to process and analyse spatially referenced content in a wide and still expanding range of science
areas, spanning from human and social sciences like archeology, politics and architecture to environmental and
geoscientific applications, even including planetology.
This paper presents proven patterns for innovation and organisation derived from the evolution of GIS,
which can be ported to Data Science. Within the GIS landscape, three strategic interacting tiers can be denoted: i) Standardisation, ii) applications based on closed-source software, without the option of access to and analysis of the implemented algorithms, and iii) Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) based on freely accessible program code enabling analysis, education and ,improvement by everyone. This paper focuses on patterns gained from the synthesis of three decades of FOSS development. We identified best-practices which evolved from long term FOSS projects, describe the role of community-driven global umbrella organisations such as OSGeo, as well as the standardization of innovative services. The main driver is the acknowledgement of a meritocratic attitude.
These patterns follow evolutionary processes of establishing and maintaining a web-based democratic culture
spawning new kinds of communication and projects. This culture transcends the established compartmentation and
stratification of science by creating mutual benefits for the participants, irrespective of their respective research
interest and standing. Adopting these best practices will enable
Linking the spaces between unitec research symposium presentationJay_dub
Presentation to the Unitec Institute of Technology annual Research Symposium, 2 October 2014, relating the scale and scope of a community media project in Auckland, New Zealand. The project is comprised of layers: the creation of documentaries for broadcast, with student involvement and community stakeholder engagement, as well as a research component As the work is in progress, this presentation gave the opportunity to review and reflect on the multiple challenges and opportunities inherent in this collaborative work.
Cardboard Hospital - Prototyping Patient-centered Hospital Environments and S...Juha Kronqvist
Cardboard hospital is a real-size prototyping environment for hospital environments and services. It is used in co-designing with patients, staff and architects.
More information: http://designforhealthcare.blogspot.com/
Esitelmä metodikehityksestä, joka on tehty potilaiden osallistamiseksi sairaalaympäristöjen suunnitteluun. Pahvisairaalasta löytyy myös video osoitteessa http://vimeo.com/juhak/pahvisairaala
Detailing the change process in a large regional hospital towards applying design methods in the development of their services and care centre.
http://designforhealthcare.blogspot.com
Presented at Studying and Improving Design Practice Symposium at Aalto University
6.9.2012
A case description of a service design project within a large hospital focusing on improving the care of cancer patients.
More information: http://designforhealthcare.blogspot.com/
A nation-building concept developed for Crisis Management Initiative (CMI) based on showing and collecting stories of everyday life in post-conflict areas.
1. SHARING, SPRINTING AND
COLLABORATING IN THE OPEN
– Studying Emerging Research Work Practices
Juha Kronqvist
Media Lab // Aalto University School of Art and Design
FISCAR2010 conference
23.5.2010
2. ABOUT ME
• Researcher in the VISCI project (CICERO Learning)
• Doctoral student at Aalto University Media Lab
• Thesis theme:
Studying participatory methods for designing
collaborative web environments
http://personas.media.mit.edu/personasWeb.html
3. STRUCTURE
1. NEW FORMS OF PRODUCTION AND RESEARCH WORK
2. PRESENTING THE CASE OF OPEN RESEARCH
3. EMERGING OPEN RESEARCH PRACTICES
4. DISCUSSION
5. EMERGING FORMS OF PRODUCTION
“Free software offers a glimpse at a more
basic and radical challenge. It suggests
that the networked environment makes
possible a new modality of organizing
production: radically decentralized,
collaborative, and nonproprietary; based
on sharing resources and outputs among
widely distributed, loosely connected
individuals who cooperate with each other
without relying on either market signals or
managerial commands. This is what I call
‘commons-based peer production.’”
Yochai Benkler (2006)
6. PRODUSAGE = PRODUCER + USER
• The emergence of various domains for peer production
has challenged the existing value chain, e.g.:
• open source software
• on-line publishing (blogs, citizen journalism)
• knowledge production (Wikipedia, social
bookmarking)
• creative practice (A/V sharing, CC distribution)
• Duality of producer-consumer roles
(Bruns 2008)
7. AFFORDANCES FOR PRODUSAGE
Axel Bruns (2008)
1 2 3 4
PROBABILISTIC, EQUIPOTENTIALITY, GRANULAR, SHARED,
NON-DIRECTED NOT NOT NOT
PROBLEM HIERARCHY COMPOSITE OWNED
SOLVING TASKS CONTENT
8. OPEN SCIENCE
• The process of research has for long been guided by
the notion of open science, i.e. that it’s produce is
considered a public good
• E-Research aims at building infrastructure for
supporting access to scholarly information and
research data
• Current work balances between technological
determinism and social construction (Borgman 2008)
• Open research supports the open sharing of research
process and methodologies in addition to data and
results
9. PEER PRODUCTION OF RESEARCH
• So far examples of peer produced research are few
and most are cases of citizen research
• NASA Clickworkers
• Mechanical Turk
• Birdwatching
• Examples derive mostly from the field of natural
sciences
11. (OPEN) RESEARCH SWARM
• An open network of people interested in research
• Founded in 2007
• Participation is open to all interested
• Relies heavily on social media tools in its operation, e.g.:
• Microblogging (http://www.qaiku.com/channels/show/
Tutkimusparvi/)
• Wiki’s (http://tutkimus.parvi.fi/)
• Etherpad (http://www.etherpad.com – acquired by Google)
• Two successful cases of activity
• Collectively written paper at MindTrek conference in 2008
• Accepted research proposal for the Academy of Finland
• Activity intensity is fluctuating
12. STUDYING EMERGING RESEARCH
• Data collected through virtual ethnography (e.g. Hine 2000)
• participation during the development discussions of the RS
• tracing back discussions in microblogs
• studying wiki pages
• supporting interviews with participants
• Research focus: practices
• defined as culturally embedded ways of doing that combine
actions and context (Korkman 2006)
14. SHARING
• The Research Swarm conducts most of its
communication using open and accessible web tools
• There exists a social norm for publishing information
while it is being generated
(e.g. using email is considered ‘embarassing’)
• instrumental for open participation
• scope of activities&engagement varies
• individual activities can be traced path of engagement
• Activities
• seminar/meeting backchannels
high
• open calls for participation interaction
some
interaction
• (micro)updating wikipedia pages low
interaction
• social bookmarking of interesting information
15. SPRINTING
• Sprinting refers to the action of elevated collective work
towards achieving a result within a given time-frame
• Can be f.ex. a case where an open call is made to finish up a
paper before the deadline
• Can happen in intervals of a few hours over a few days
• During the sprint, the objectives and rules are
constantly communally constructed
• The product is constructed granularly or collaboratively
• Amount of participation varies from constructing structure for
texts to correcting grammar errors
16.
17. SWARM LEADERSHIP
• Leadership is determined by
interest and self-organisation and
rotates continuously
• When a new operation is being
uptaken, someone formally or
informally takes the role of an
coordinative swarm leader
• publishing time tables for sprints, tasks
and motivating participants through
open calls
• this role can change during an
operation, and is changed at the latest
when an operation ends
18. TOOLS
ON SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLS
SUBJECT
• Values are internalized through the use of tools and
are assimilated as norms that guide behaviour
(Engeström 2008) RULES
COMMUNITY
• Research Swarm activities are afforded and Activity System Model
(Engeström 1985)
constrained by the functioning of social media, e.g.:
• openness and sharing
• textual format
• agility and granularity
• reliance on networks instead of hierarchies
• Some of the core values are derived directly or
through the tools from open source development
19. DISCUSSION
• Digital networked technologies are influencing
research, also in ways not easily predictable
• democratization of research work
• wildfire activities (Engeström 2009)
• The use of social media tools seems to have the ability
to affect the value-base of their users
• How should this reflect in the way collaborative
research tools are designed?
• Pointers for continuing research?
20. THANKS!
Juha
Kronqvist
Coordinator
/
Researcher
VISCI
Project
Media
Lab
/
LeGroup
Hämeentie
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FI-00560
Helsinki,
Finland
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