This presentation depicts the contrast of the conservatism of the academic tradition compared to the new trends happening in the digital information age

1. SHARE INSPIRATION
Maurice Vanderfeesten – 13 March 2008

2. Communicating in
the Digital Era
- Mind boggling, creative idea’s
- Web 2.0 (tagging, rating, commenting)
- Social networks (Facebook)
- Interconnectivity (Amazon)
- Online Video’s (YouTube)
- Semantic web
- Intelligent Agents
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3. Communicating in
the Digital Era
Productivity of Search
The Intelligent Web
Web 4.0
2020 - 2030 Reasoning
The Semantic Web
Web 3.0 Semantic Search
2010 - 2020
The Social Web Natural language search
The World Wide Web Web 2.0
2000 - 2010 Tagging
Web 1.0
1990 - 2000 Keyword search
The Desktop
Directories
PC Era
1980 - 1990
Files & Folders
Databases
3 Amount of data

4. Communicating in
the Digital Era
- Mind boggling, creative idea’s
- Web 2.0 (tagging, rating, commenting)
- Social networks (Facebook)
- Interconnectivity (Amazon)
- Online Video’s (YouTube)
- Semantic web
- Intelligent Agents
- The Living Web (www.wefeelfine.org)
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5. Communicating in
the Digital Era
- Mind boggling, creative idea’s
- Web 2.0 (tagging, rating, commenting)
- Social networks (Facebook)
- Interconnectivity (Amazon)
- Online Video’s (YouTube)
- Semantic web
- Intelligent Agents
- The Living Web (www.wefeelfine.org)
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6. Communicating in
The Digital Era
- Mind boggling, creative idea’s
- Web 2.0 (tagging, rating, commenting)
- Social networks (Facebook)
- Interconnectivity (Amazon)
- Online Video’s (Youtube)
- Semantic web
- Intelligent Agents
- The Living Web (www.wefeelfine.org)
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7. Research in
the Digital Era
- Open data – www.GapMinder.org
- Acceleration – www.Plos.org
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8. Research communication
in the Digital Era
- Online - Print
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9. Research communication
in the Digital Era
Today:
- Commenting
and rating
- Interconnectivity
Tomorrow:
- Rich media
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10. Research communication
in a paradigm shift
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11. DARE
(Classic Model)
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12. SURFshare
(Shifting model? – Stable Infrastructure!)
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13. Researcher in
the Digital Era
- Connecting to real people
- Get immediate access to the right information
- Expression in richer ways
- New research questions
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14. Researcher in
the Digital Era
- Connecting to real people
- Get immediate access to the right information
- Expression in richer ways
- New research questions
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15. the right information…
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16. the right information…
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17. the right information…
Finger print
has a
Knowledge Item
is a
17 Dataset Video Person Article Concept Ontology

18. … (create fingerprint) …
Person with DAI Generate fingerprint
Lookup created material
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19. … in your
personal information space
Finger print matching
Person with DAI
Dataset with DII
Person
has finger print
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20. Stable Identifiers for
Digital Items
- Why need stable links?
Repository
URL
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21. Stable Identifiers for
Digital Items
- Collect the DII’s by harvesting (OAI-PMH)
- DII = Digital Item Identifier
- Connect to resource by using a resolver.
- Resolver = reversed phonebook
OAI-PMH
DII
Repository
Resolver
URL DII + URL
DII
21 - DII demo  urn:nbn:nl:ui:10-1921/5993

22. Native DII resolution
in-browser
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27. Stable Identifiers for
Scientific Authors
40.000 Author names + DAI
DAI =
Digital Author Identifier
NTA
Online Matching
Manual Person -
De-duplication information DAI
Publications
METIS Repository
with DAI
Automatic
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28. Proof of concept
- From Mock-up to Life Demo
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29. Infrastructure,
what about it?