Connecting datasets and publications automatically
Wouldn’t it be great for a scientific data archive to know what publications made use of their data sets? Pingback mechanisms, used in blog systems, can send citation notifications automatically. Can the same be applicable for online journal systems, notifying each other and data archives about citations? It all comes down to agree on using a really simple standard.
This blog article describes  very drafty the Ping-back mechanism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pingback) used in blogs, now used in repositories, data archives and journal systems.
This idea is just giving an …

Last weekend  Google, Microsoft’s BING and Yahoo! agreed to use the MicroData format as a common standard and schema.org as a common vocabulary to make search even more efficient.  Will this also be the answer for describing inter-related scholarly work, aka Enhanced Publications?
The standard the Big3 have announced can be found on http://www.schema.org/ . With this HTML pages can be enriched, by simply making semantic annotations to your current HTML markup. For Institutional repostitories, who are already being crawled by search engines, this means they can finaly rely on a standard that makes sense …

“Page not found” nowadays in the dynamic information society a common phrase when you use your old bookmarks. To find your beloved document you have to “Google” it. A web-crawling search engine is by far the most reliable resolver of the documents, but there is no guarantee. This is fine, you get some, you loose some. However when considering working in a academic arena, this really gets annoying. New Knowledge is build  on older knowledge to reject or refine this knowledge, to answer new questions. when you cannot read back …

The speed of alt-metrics presents the opportunity to create real-time recommendation and collaborative filtering systems: instead of subscribing to dozens of tables-of-contents, a researcher could get a feed of this week’s most significant work in her field. This becomes especially powerful when combined with quick “alt-publications” like blogs or preprint servers, shrinking the communication cycle from years to weeks or days. Faster, broader impact metrics could also play a role …

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The Future of the Book. from IDEO on Vimeo.

Scientometrics 2.0: Toward new metrics on scholarly impact on the social web
by: Jason Priem and Bradley M. Hemminger
Source: First Monday, Volume 15, Number 7 – 5 July 2010
Source: http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2874/2570
Abstract
The growing flood of scholarly literature is exposing the weaknesses of current, citation–based methods of evaluating and filtering articles. A novel and promising approach is to examine the use and citation of articles in a new forum: Web 2.0 services like social bookmarking and microblogging. Metrics based on this data could build a “Scientometics 2.0,” supporting richer and more timely pictures of …

This Library could be useful for creating visualisations of the relationships in Enhanced Publications
http://thejit.org/demos/
http://wiki.surffoundation.nl/display/vpinfra/1.3+ORE+visualiser

Source: www.nytimes.com/2010/08/24/arts/24peer.html?pagewanted=2&_r=3
“What we’re experiencing now is the most important transformation in our reading and writing tools since the invention of movable type,” said Katherine Rowe, a Renaissance specialist and media historian at Bryn Mawr College. “The way scholarly exchange is moving is radical, and we need to think about what it means for our fields.”
For professors, publishing in elite journals is an unavoidable part of university life. The grueling process of subjecting work to the up-or-down judgment of credentialed scholarly peers has been a cornerstone of academic culture since at …

Onderstaand artikel gaat over de trends in Science 2.0
Link: http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2961/2573
Met dank aan: Wilfred Mijnhardt
Samenvatting:

Iedereen is auteur en schrijft blogs en tweets (microblog): artikelen met workflow “werk, schrijf, publiceer” daalt. (publish-then-filter approach)

Meer gefragmenteerde wetenschappelijke output met ‘draft’ status

Open peer review/discussies van deze wetenschappelijke fragmenten (“Liquid science”)

Hiervoor moeten alle wetenschappelijke fragmenten publiekelijk toegankelijk zijn

Alle wetenschappelijke fragmenten worden relationeel met elkaar verbonden, ook de discussies en commentaren zijn waardevol in het wetenschappelijke kenniscreatie proces.

Wetenschap wordt vergeleken met de “cultural goods market”; wetenschappelijke output met muziek in de entertainment industrie. Wetenschap gaat dezelfde …

[presentation by Ben Bosman, @mire]

@mire has build a GUI for statistics on Dspace at the administrator side.
User requirments: a survey has been held. Repository managers would like to see the popularity of items, collectiions or communities.
Technology: They use Apache Solr (fork of Lucene) for indexing and fast search and faceted browsing.
Advantages: statistics are context aware. This means the items are aware of the D-space hierarchy, group items, bitstream and pageviews
Visualize: using the SOLR faceted search, the popular items, collections and communities can be easily shown in matter of milliseconds. This …