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Now, about that filter..
The presentation discusses the challenges of managing information overload in scientific research due to the exponential growth of data and publications. It highlights the importance of effective filtering tools, social aggregation, and community collaboration to enhance the discovery and understanding of scientific information. The presenter calls for better tools for aggregation, summarization, and integration to build effective networks for researchers.
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- 1. Now, about thatfilter... Managing scientific information overload on the web NFAIS Meeting 28 February 2010, Philadelphia
- 2. Some of thepeople who contributed to this presentation...
- 3. @communicating Plausible Accuracy PIERRE LINDENBAUM Mummi Thorissson John Fabiana Kubke Richard Grant Pedro Beltrao Neil Saunders Steve Wilson @gnat Branwen Hide Simon Coles Dupuis Simon Philips Pawel Szcsesny Paul Miller Tony Hey Jeremy Frey Nico Adams Richard Akerman Cavalli Gabriel JonMat Todd Stephen BrennerTim O’Reilly Noel Gorelick Dave de Roure Rich Apodaca Udell ISIS LSS Group Jeremiah Faith Jean-Claude Bradley Nicholas Cole Michael Barton JOHN WILLINSKY Phil Lord Victoria Stodden Martyn Bull Stephen Friend David CrottyClay Shirky @t John Cumbers Bora Chris Leonard Grace BaynesEva Amsen Egon Willighagen Mark Borkum Brian Kelly Tony Williams Dan Hagon Maxine Clarke Andrew Milsted Zivkovic Mitch Koch Lab Michael Nielsen Martin Fenner Steph Hannon WaldropGreg Wilson Brian Matthews Leigh Dodds Bill Hooker Glyn Moody Yaroslav Nikolaev Jenny Rohn Rafael Sidi Lee Smolin Frank NormanRicardo Vidal Iain Emsley Paulo Nuin Ariel Waldmann Timo HannayKen Shankland Lorie LeJeune Jonathan Gray PT Sefton Microsoft STFC Deepak Singh Shirley Wu ISIS Computing Group Helen Berman Andrew Peter Binfield Benjamin Good Dorothea Salo Liz Lyons PLoS Kasarskis Jen Dodd Lee Dirks Peter Murray-Rust Richard Akerman Carole Goble Jon Eisen Jenny Hale Lakshmi Shastry Steve Koch NPG Ben Goldacre Chad OrzelBill Flanagan Jon Tansley Michael Eisen Matt Wood SciFoo 2008/9 Friendfeed Hope Leman Rufus Pollock Victor HenningGoogle Björn Brembs Jo BadgeAllyson Lister Lisa Green TIM HUBBARD Rebecca Goulding campers Euan Adie John Andy Powell Harry Collins Gavin Bell Jim Downing Matt Johnson Wilbanks Mike Ellis DUNCAN HULL Garret Lisi Jamie McQuay ALAN CANN Catherine Jones Andrew Farke Gavin Baker Peter Suber Sabine HossenfelderFlickr The BioGangKevin KellyPaul Walk Arfon Smith Kaitlin Thaney Richard Curry Atilla Csordas Ian Mulvany
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- 10. First email addresss-1991 http://www.flickr.com/photos/bike/3046589822 CC-BY-SA
- 11. “You need tospend half a day a week in the library reading the new journals” My project supervisor, 1994 http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevecadman/486261295 CC-BY-SA
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- 18. ...day to daysearch went from...
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- 25. ...data. No longerjust papers
- 26. Submissions to Genbank 100,000,000,000 75,000,000,000 50,000,000,000 25,000,000,000 0 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006
- 27. Average Capacity ofHuman Scientist 5.00 3.75 2.50 1.25 0 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006
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- 29. ...everyone I knowis subscribed to TOC alerts
- 30. ...and no-one Iknow is reading them...
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- 33. So how are those filters getting on? http://www.flickr.com/photos/daveyll/332723930
- 34. Search is (byfar) the dominant filter
- 38. So the stateof the art is an RSS feed of a text search...
- 39. ...and that’s onlyon the abstracts not the full text
- 40. ...which is abit http://www.flickr.com/photos/contortyourself/3902224062 CC-BY-SA
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- 46. In the areaof social web tools for scientists I am confident that every significant (public) document and announcement crosses my attention stream.
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- 52. http://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/2941559903 CC-BY Sharing the load
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- 58. ...but still afiltering problem
- 60. http://www.flickr.com/photos/qnr/1263648697 CC-BY-SA Each interaction adds value...
- 61. ...and each interaction measures value... http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinksherbet/3209939998 CC-BY
- 62. Collaborative aggregation Collaborative abstraction Collaborative indexing Collaborative prioritisation
- 63. Based on the network I built http://www.flickr.com/photos/luc/2515255357
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- 65. ...will only workwhere a community exists http://www.flickr.com/photos/mararie/3313582639/ CC-BY-SA
- 66. ...and shares aset of tools http://www.flickr.com/photos/batega/1596898776 CC-BY
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- 68. We’re a longway from the ideal...
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- 71. ...better tools for aggregation,summarisation, integration...
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- 73. ...tools for building,maintaining, and measuring networks...
- 74. ...if I’m relying on the network... http://www.flickr.com/photos/luc/2515255357
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- 76. ...tools to summarise,filter, and integrate diverse sources of information...
- 77. ...abstracts, summaries, indexesof people and the tools to help me use them to build the network I want...
- 78. Who might bewell placed to do that? http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardmoross/3947406286 CC-BY
- 79. Cameron.Neylon@stfc.ac.uk http://blog.openwetware.org/scienceintheopen http://slideshare.net/cameronneylon Twitter: @cameronneylon Friendfeed: cameronneylon Thanks to: Sciencetwists, Friendfeeders, and the wider online community for ideas, criticism, and conversations. Deepak Singh, Larry Lessig, Andy Powell, and John Wilbanks for presentation inspiration. Flickr for images