Life Scientists Go Online - UKSG 2010
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This document discusses how life scientists are using online collaboration tools like Friendfeed. It begins with an overview of Friendfeed and how it is being used by scientists to discuss science, solve problems, publish work, report on conferences, and collaborate. Examples are given of how scientists have used these tools to secure funding and publish papers. The outcomes of using these tools include speed, connecting with more researchers globally, lowering barriers to participation, and making the process more open and traceable. Both advantages like greater effectiveness of online collaboration and disadvantages like information overload are discussed.
Life Scientists Go Online - UKSG 2010
- 1. Life Scientists go online - collaboration, communication and credit Lucy Power Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford UKSG, 13 April 2010
- 3. Outline 1. Background 2. What is Friendfeed? 3. How its being used 4. Outcomes 5. Impact
- 15. Outcomes Discussing science Solving scientific problems Publishing Conference reporting Collaborating Searching and finding Writing grant applications Securing funding
- 20. I'd also be remiss if I didn't also note the critical role online collaboration played in this effort. Of the seven coauthors on this paper, two I've met only once in real life, and two I've never met in person. We are spread over four cities, five organizations, and nine time zones. Initiating and executing this collaboration happened virtually entirely online, aided by the FriendFeed Life Scientists room and Molecular and Cellular Biology WikiProject at Wikipedia. It was an eye-opener in terms of how effective online collaboration can be done. Andrew Su http://biogps.blogspot.com/2009/09/gene-wiki-update-paper.html Outcomes - publishing
- 21. Saunders, N., Beltrao, P., Jensen, L., Jurczak, D., Krause, R., Kuhn, M. et al. (2009). Microblogging the ISMB: A New Approach to Conference Reporting. PLoS Comput Biol, 5(1).
- 23. From marginalia to Friendfeed - Speed (obviously) answers at the speed of the Internet - Network effects connecting with people you didnt know in your field, other fields and disciplines, and their connections (strength of weak ties) - Informality lower barriers to entry - Openness ideas are traceable from genesis to publication - Global distribution of discussion
- 24. From marginalia to Friendfeed II - Field/Disciplinary differences - Work habits managing time - Information selection filtering the volume (the disadvantages of scale) - Ephemeral no formal archiving strategies
- 25. If youre using online tools for research or to assist researchers, please feel free to come and chat to me today and tomorrow! Lucy Power DPhil Candidate Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford Supervised by Dr Ralph Schroeder and Dr Eric M. Meyer lucy.power@oii.ox.ac.uk