Presentation on February 1, 2013 at NME2013.

1. New and Emerging Technologies to
Support Research in the 21st Century
Jeffrey Lancaster
Emerging Technologies Coordinator
Science & Engineering Library, Columbia University
jeffrey.lancaster@columbia.edu
@j_lancaster

2. The Role of Literature in the Research Workflow
Plausible
Applications?
?
Novel Useful Grants
? ? FUNDING
IDEA
New Big or small Justification
Question RESEARCH
s PLAN
New
PEOPLE
Knowledg Student
e s
JOB & Learning
FUNDING Up to Speed
Researchers
ANALYSIS &
RESULTS EXPERIMENTS
Confirmatio Protocols
n Reagents
Patents Thesi PUBLISH
s
Discussio
Talks Article Data
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s Background Analysis
Justification
Conferences Community
Conversation Conferences
Talks Adapted from Laura Croft @ Nature

3. Case Study 1: A researcher has a lot of papers they need to read. The researcher
commutes and has a lot of free time on the train to read, but is stuck with print-
outs or .pdf’s.
Case Study 2: A researcher wants her group to collaboratively develop a list of
new articles for a monthly journal club to read.
Case Study 3: A researcher needs to quickly make an annotated bibliography from
a folder of .pdf’s.
Case Study 4: A researcher wants to use social media to satisfy his ‘Broader
Impact’ requirements, but doesn’t have time to blog, use facebook, or tweet.
Case Study 5: A researcher wants to get credit for work that hasn’t been
“published”, but which may still be useful to the scientific community.

4. Case Study 1: A researcher has a lot of papers they need to read. The researcher
commutes and has a lot of free time on the train to read, but is stuck with print-
outs or .pdf’s.
Print (personal)
Print (publisher)
Digital (personal)

5. Pocket, formerly Read-it-Later
Read webpages, blogs, articles on the go in an aesthetically pleasing format

6. Mendeley
Reference manager + PDF reader + social network + recommendations + metrics

7. Case Study 2: A researcher wants her group to collaboratively develop a list of
new articles for a monthly journal club to read.

8. Case Study 2: A researcher wants her group to collaboratively develop a list of
new articles for a monthly journal club to read.
Plausible
Applications?
?
Novel Useful Grants
? ? FUNDING
IDEA
New Big or small Justification
Question RESEARCH
s PLAN
New
PEOPLE
Knowledg Student
e s
JOB & Learning
FUNDING Up to Speed
Researchers
ANALYSIS &
RESULTS EXPERIMENTS
Confirmatio Protocols
n Reagents
Patents Thesi PUBLISH
s
Discussio
Talks Article Data
n
s Background Analysis
Justification
Conferences Community
Conferences
Conversation
Talks

9. RSS
RSS = Really Simple Syndication – a protocol to deliver content (e.g. feed://…)
RSS Reader – a tool to parse and format RSS content (e.g. Google Reader)
feed://news.columbia.edu/cu-news/feed

10. FlipBoard
An RSS reader with built-in ‘magazine-like’ formatting for easy reading

11. Case Study 2: A researcher wants her group to collaboratively develop a list of
new articles for a monthly journal club to read.

12. ifttt.com – if THIS then THAT
if trigger then action .
post to post to
if [ facebook ] then [ twitter ].
check in email
if [ at airport ] then [ Mom ].
RSS item add to
if [ starred ] then [ draft post ].
RSS item add to
if [ tagged ] then [ googledoc ].

13. ifttt.com – if THIS then THAT
if trigger then action .
if then .
post to facebook post to twitter
if then .
check in at airport email Mom
if then .
RSS item starred add to draft post
if then .
RSS item tagged add to googledoc

14. ifttt.com – if THIS then THAT
A good guide to what apps you should know/use

15. API
API = Application Programming Interface – enables queries, posts to databases
?

16. Case Study 2: A researcher wants her group to collaboratively develop a list of
new articles for a monthly journal club to read.

17. Case Study 3: A researcher needs to quickly make an annotated bibliography from
a folder of .pdf’s.

18. Case Study 3: A researcher needs to quickly make an annotated bibliography from
a folder of .pdf’s.
Plausible
Applications?
?
Novel Useful Grants
? ? FUNDING
IDEA
New Big or small Justification
Question RESEARCH
s PLAN
New
PEOPLE
Knowledg Student
e s
JOB & Learning
FUNDING Up to Speed
Researchers
ANALYSIS &
RESULTS EXPERIMENTS
Confirmatio Protocols
n Reagents
Patents Thesi PUBLISH
s
Discussio
Talks Article Data
n
s Background Analysis
Justification
Conferences Community
Conferences
Conversation
Talks

19. Mendeley
Reference manager + PDF reader + social network + recommendations + metrics

20. Case Study 4: A researcher wants to use social media to satisfy his ‘Broader
Impact’ requirements, but doesn’t have time to blog, use facebook, or tweet.
Twitter: I’m eating a donut
Facebook: I like donuts
Foursquare: This is where I eat donuts
Instagram: Here’s a vintage photo of my
donut
Youtube: Here I am eating a donut
LinkedIn: My skills include donut eating
Pinterest: Here’s a donut recipt
Last.fm: Now listening to “Donuts”
Google+: I’m a google employee who
eats donuts

21. Case Study 4: A researcher wants to use social media to satisfy his ‘Broader
Impact’ requirements, but doesn’t have time to blog, use facebook, or tweet.

22. Case Study 4: A researcher wants to use social media to satisfy his ‘Broader
Impact’ requirements, but doesn’t have time to blog, use facebook, or tweet.
Plausible
Applications?
?
Novel Useful Grants
? ? FUNDING
IDEA
New Big or small Justification
Question RESEARCH
s PLAN
New
PEOPLE
Knowledg Student
e s
JOB & Learning
FUNDING Up to Speed
Researchers
ANALYSIS &
RESULTS EXPERIMENTS
Confirmatio Protocols
n Reagents
Patents Thesi PUBLISH
s
Discussio
Talks Article Data
n
s Background Analysis
Justification
Conferences Community
Conferences
Conversation
Talks

23. disqus.com
Commenting for ANY website, w/ metrics, moderation, & easy implementation

24. Science @ Columbia
A community platform for the Sciences & Engineering at Columbia

25. ORCID, ResearcherID, etc.
Unique identifiers for researchers to cross-reference publications, activities, etc.
John Smith vs. J. Smith vs. John D. Smith vs.
J. D. Smith vs. JD Smith vs. …
Wang Kim vs. W. Kim vs. Kim Wang vs. K. Wang …
ResearcherID: J-6870-2012
ORCID: 0000-0003-0458-2127

26. Case Study 5: A researcher wants to get credit for work that hasn’t been
“published”, but which may still be useful to the scientific community.

27. Case Study 5: A researcher wants to get credit for work that hasn’t been
“published”, but which may still be useful to the scientific community.
Plausible
Applications?
?
Novel Useful Grants
? ? FUNDING
IDEA
New Big or small Justification
Question RESEARCH
s PLAN
New
PEOPLE
Knowledg Student
e s
JOB & Learning
FUNDING Up to Speed
Researchers
ANALYSIS &
RESULTS EXPERIMENTS
Confirmatio Protocols
n Reagents
Patents Thesi PUBLISH
s
Discussio
Talks Article Data
n
s Background Analysis
Justification
Conferences Community
Conferences
Conversation
Talks

28. Run My Code
Share code used to analyze data; others can implement the same methodology
• Biology • R
• Mathematics • MATLAB©
• Neuroscience • C++
• Statistics • Fortran
• Social sciences • Rats
• Economics • More software will be
• Econometrics added soon.
• Finance
• Management
Oh, and it’s free!

29. Reproducibility Initiative
Address the reproducibility of your research in a blind, fee-for-service validation
Validated studies receive a Certificate of Reproducibility
acknowledging that their results have been
independently reproduced.

30. figshare.com
Share research components to make them discoverable & citable; get metrics

31. Altmetric(s)
Capture overall impact of a publication in blogs, tweets, mentions, news, etc.

32. Crowd-Funding Science
Funding science may no longer rely upon government. Interested
people, engaged by social media presence, are key to raising money from the
crowd.

33. Summary
Plausible
Applications?
?
Novel Useful Grants
? ? FUNDING
IDEA
New Big or small Justification
Question RESEARCH
s PLAN
New
PEOPLE
Knowledg Student
e s
JOB & Learning
FUNDING Up to Speed
Researchers
ANALYSIS &
RESULTS EXPERIMENTS
Confirmatio Protocols
n Reagents
Patents Thesi PUBLISH
s
Discussio
Talks Article Data
n
s Background Analysis
Justification
Conferences Community
Conversation Conferences
Talks

34. New and Emerging Technologies to
Support Research in the 21st Century
Slides will be available at slideshare.net/jeffreylancaster
Jeffrey Lancaster
Emerging Technologies Coordinator
Science & Engineering Library, Columbia University
jeffrey.lancaster@columbia.edu
@j_lancaster