Marcos Baez
Marcos [email protected]
Knowledge Dissemination in the Web Era
dbTrento– Feb 26th, 2010
o The Web has changed the way we produce and consume and disseminate scientific content
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The Web Era
• Peer review• Papers• Issues/volumes
o The Web has changed the way we produce and consume and disseminate scientific content
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The Web Era
Internet
o Also social changes..
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4ReadersAuthors
How do I get interesting content!
How do I make my work visible!
The Web Era
The scarce resource is now the attention
The scarce resource is now the attention
o Original reasons for the current model are GONEo it does not necessarily mean current model is still
not the best
o This calls for a new dissemination model that embraces the Web..o Opportunities in terms of production and
collaborationo Face the problem of attention..
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Motivation
o Identify a model of scientific journal in the Web Erao Efficient and effective for AUTHORS, REVIEWERS
AND READERSo Encourage behaviors that are “good” for scienceo Making the evaluation fairero Evaluating other aspects of research
o Go beyond the model and implement a supporting platformo Usability as key: target user is a scientist. No overly
complicated models
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Goal
o The current dissemination model and tools continue unaware of the Web.o Dissemination constrained to the notion of papero Models do not tackle the problem of attentiono Tools for sharing a collaboration are the “mean”
but they lack of a formal and complete model o Academic search engines provide only a partial
view. Their use in a formal dissemination model need to be studied (e.g., ranking)
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What’s the problem existing models..?
Hints for the Solution: Liquid journals
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Liquid journal: Conceptual model
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Let’s watch a video..
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPmG1iQjjh0 [part1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfAFpw0NaLU [part2]
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Liquid journals model
Internet
Liquid journal
Scientific contributions Process
Editors Community
Journal definition language
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Liquid journals: Evolution
Liquid journal
Liquid journal Issues
Temporal links
Structural links
Structural, Temporal, Semantic links
Scientific contributions
o Model of journal capable of bringing “interesting” and “relevant” content in the form of “scientific contributions” from the Web
o Journal definition language for expressing preferences in terms of content, processes and collaboration
o Notions of “interestingness”, “relevance”, “similarity” and “diversity” applied to scientific content
o Sharing and collaboration models (based on the Social Web)
o Reputation metrics for authors, editors and scientific contributions,…
o Platform and working prototype of the model
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Expected contributions
o Define conceptual models for scientific contributions and journals
o Designing and implementing the abstraction for accessing and querying the Web
o Providing mechanisms for dealing with the noise
o Reputation metrics robust enough to tweak-attempts
o Identify interestingness, diversity, similarity in a way it is not intrusive
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Challenges
o Tailored journals to read what we care about
o Combine breadth and depth
o Real-time dissemination
o Reward creativity, early sharing and collaboration
o Exploit filtering power of the community
o Look into other aspects of researchers’ productivity
o Help the community to select the variation of the model that fits better its context
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Benefits
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Liquid journals: Infrastructure
Accessing and Querying scientific resources
Implementation of the overall journal model
Usage = human (key)
How people (editors and readers) will consume LJ Videos, mockups and prototype (
http://project.liquidpub.org/research-areas/liquid-journal) Paper submitted to JCDL 2010 In progress: IC -Overcoming Information Overload Issues
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Preliminary results
Preliminary results
Gelee: Flexible and easy to use lifeycle managmeent tool [Baez09]18
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