Web 2.0 – Hype or Revolution for

Researchers?

Dominik Benz Dominik Benz (BibSonomy)(BibSonomy)

Web 2.0? Pink Floyd Lyrics…

collaboration

application-driven

information sharing

user-centric

inter-operability

Scientific Communication Wishlist

communicate results to a large public

audience

comfortable (web-based)

communication tools

collaborate with

colleagues

„personal marketing“

literature research

Seems like a perfect match…

…really?

Fast feedback to new results

Easy to stay informed

Possibility to reach large audiences

Collaborations independent from geographical location

„fast food research“ (small units being reported)

Information overload

No quality / correctness control (Spam!)

Plagiarism

See for yourself…

• Create a (shared) collaborative bibliography

• Automatically maintain a personal publication list

• Use bibliography for writing papers

• Integration into other systems (News Reader, Facebook, …)

• …

Thanks!

benz@cs.uni-kassel.de