Maurice Vanderfeesten

Category: Open Science

  • National Research Day

    National Research Day

    Foto Moniek Kooijmans 2012 http://www.flickr.com/photos/kooijmansevents/6853046505/sizes/m/in/set-72157629248989653
    Foto: Moniek Kooijmans 2012, vln: Maurice Vanderfeesten, Richard Zijdeman

    The first National Research Day has passed on the 9th of february 2012. I helped the keynote speaker Richard Zijdeman to introduce the myResearch Portal.
    The video below shows the entire keynote in Dutch.

    The other keynote speaker was Cameron Neylon about Networked Enabled Research. reducing friction and linking information changes fundamentally the way science is performed. Below you can follow his audio enabled talk.

    Network Enabled Research: Not just bigger or better, but fundamentally different

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  • Alt-metrics – an additional way to measure scientific impact

    Alt-metrics – an additional way to measure scientific impact

    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 in funding and promotion decisions.

    read more on http://altmetrics.org

    Alt-metrics expand our view of what impact looks like, but also of what’s making the impact. This matters because expressions of scholarship are becoming more diverse. Articles are increasingly joined by:

    • The sharing of “raw science” like datasets, code, and experimental designs
    • Semantic publishing or “nanopublication,” where the citeable unit is an argument or passage rather than entire article.
    • Widespread self-publishing via blogging, microblogging, and comments or annotations on existing work.

    Because alt-metrics are themselves diverse, they’re great for measuring impact in this diverse scholarly ecosystem. In fact, alt-metrics will be essential to sift these new forms, since they’re outside the scope of traditional filters. This diversity can also help in measuring the aggregate impact of the research enterprise itself.

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  • Open innovation: new definitions of a book

    Open innovation: new definitions of a book


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    The Future of the Book. from IDEO on Vimeo.

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  • New ways for online Academic Peer Review

     

    Innovative Research Communities Panel
    Innovative Research Communities Panel (Photo credit: Norman Lear Center)

    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 least the mid-20th century.

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  • Trends in Science 2.0

    Trends in Science 2.0

    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 trend door als de entertainement industrie die zich kenmerkt door i) uncertain demand; (ii) short period of profitability; (iii) infinite variety of supply; and, (iv) vertical differentiation of markets.
      • Zoals in de creatieve industrie regelen wetenschappelijke communities de distributie en peer review van de wetenschappelijke fragmenten zelf.
      • De rol van uitgevers als “quality control gatekeeper” wordt op de proefgesteld. Zij moeten het gaan hebben van peer-review services.
    • Information overload en reputation management: “trusted filter services” zorgen ervoor dat de juiste persoon de juiste schifting in informatie krijgt aangereikt.  Referenties en links naar deze wetenschappelijke fragmenten vormen het nieuwe reputatie model.
    • Reputatie managment wordt het allerbelangrijkste in thet wetenschappelijke communicatie proces. Hiervoor is het van belang dat er zeer betrouwbare reputatie management systemen komen, die open en transparant te werk gaan. (MV: Google is niet open genoeg?) (MV: een betrouwbare Digital Author Identifier is van belang) (MV: horen usage statistics ook bij deze reputatie?)
    • Nieuw wetenschappelijk beleid is noodzakelijk om het nieuwe reputatie model niet de overhand te laten krijgen, waar in die lijn, met resources/budgeten gestuurd wordt richting instellingen en individuen met de meeste reputatie. Het niewue beleid moet ervoor zorgen dat “second-tier science” (MV: HBO?) een kans krijgen de wetenschappelijke kennis door te laten vloeien in de rest van de maatschappij.
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  • OR2010 – Dspace 1.6 – Usage statistics

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    @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 can be represented in charts, and data tables.

    Reporting: Also an reporting function is available where the administrator can create reports with the facets they like by the press of a button. This can be exported in different wordprocessing formats and dataformats.

    thoughts and possibilities

    Within Knowledge Exchange “Usage Statistics” strand the country initiatives PIRUS (UK), OAstatistik (DE) and SURE (NL) are working together to create Guidelines to facilitate the exchange of Usage Statistics. These statistics come from distributed repositories and will be stored in a central database. This database will provide an API where the statistics data can be used in GUI services.

    OpenAIRE is creating a GUI with the datavisualisation API’s from Google. (Like we have seen in the presentation about Usage statistics and Google Analytics) However, according to Ben Bosman it is very risky to rely on third party visualisations you cannot control. API specifications can change and the visual design can change.

    I was thinking about using the GUI from @mire. In theory it could work, becouse their internal format for storing usage events look very similar to the OpenURL Context Objects. However Ben was very reserved when this idea was postulated. He told me that their GUI is tightly integrated with the Dspace  framework. The eye-candy of their module is great, but it is not OpenSource. This might not be a deadend. We could discover some posibilities.

    What is needed to create a GUI with either OpenAIRE or @mire

    1. User requirements study: what type of person/role needs what type of information.
    2. @mire GUI: A repository tab in the administrator GUI
    3. @mire GUI: the xml format they are using for usage events needs to be mapped to the KE format for OpenURL Context Objects. It is quite similar so an XSL might do the trick.

    Tip for the people who are implementing OAI-PMH statistics services on repositories. (Dspace, Fedora, eprint)

    If you want transmit the Geo location of countries or Cities with the OpenURL Context Objects before scrambling the ip-address, you can use GeoLite. A free version of the mapping of ip-addresses to countries and cities. An API implementation can be used.

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  • Persistent Identifiers – their need and usage

    Presentation on the ELPUB 2009 conference in Milan about Persistent Identifiers in the Knowledge Exchange context.

  • Silicon Valley effect for Innovating Research itself

    This presentation is about thinking how we can create an environment or culture in the academic landscape that enables all the knowledge and expertise of the individuals in the research community as a whole to reach a better networkeffect for innovative research projects.

  • infrastructuur voor het wetenschappelijke informatie domein

    hier komt een stuk over infrastructuur

    Het gaat over de motivatie waarom we nou zo nodig moeten veranderen, is er een besef van urgentie?

    kernwoorden kunnen zijn:

    • infrastructuur, standaarden
    • diversiteit aan diensten
    • wetenschap op de dag van vandaag is conservatief
    • wat weten wetenschappers over wetenschapsdynamica en wetenschapsprocessen zelf
    • kort overzicht van de geldstromen
    • geen systemen die een probleem oplossen waardoor dubbele informatie in dubbele formulieren moet worden ingevuld… redundantie vermijden, dus moet er opnieuw gekeken worden naar het totaalplaatje van het proces.
    • besef vanurgentie: is “open access” het verhaal waarbij we moeten inhaken om een efficientere kennis cultuur te krijgen.
    • hoe krijg je verandering in de cultuur verankerd? Wat is de rol van de jonge onderzoeker in deze? (is nieuwsgierig naar iets nieuws: iets voor promovendi netwerk nederland?) Wat is de rol van de gevestige onderzoeker? (hoeft zich geen zorgen te maken over zijn reputatie, kan resources vrijmaken binnen zijn vakgroep om te werken aan wetenschapsdynamica)
    • urgentie: de manier waarop wetenschappers worden afgerekend moet veranderen.
    • wat moet de infrastructuur bieden?.. standaarden, application program interfaces, een bibliotheek van deze koppelvlakken, semantische betekenissen aan ontologische elementen.
    • welke diensten kunnen ontwikkeld worden, case studies.