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Life Scientists go online - collaboration,
communication and credit
Lucy Power Oxford Internet Institute
University of Oxford UKSG, 13 April 2010
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Marginalia
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Outcomes
Discussing science
Solving scientific problems Publishing
Conference reporting
Collaborating
Searching and finding
Writing grant applications
Securing funding
“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
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).
From marginalia to Friendfeed… - Speed (obviously) – answers at the speed of
the Internet - Network effects – connecting with people you
didn’t 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
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
If you’re 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