Scholarly Networking / Dr Laura James / Arcadia Seminar / April 21 2009

Arcadia Seminar: Scholarly Networking


Speaker: Dr Laura James / Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies (CARET) / University of Cambridge

Location: Wolfson College.

Date and Time: Tuesday / 21 April 2009 / 18:00-19:15

The university experience, whether teaching, learning or researching, has always been built around interactions between people, and the network of people one meets. CARET is investigating many aspects of scholarly networking, including supporting and enhancing these real world connections online, and the ways in which academic networking differs from social networking (whilst drawing on the viral and compelling nature of consumer social tools).

Dr James will present various parts of this work including design personas drawn from user research into the ways that academics at all levels communicate today, which are informing user-centric design of scholarly networking concepts. In addition, she will touch upon business models for sustainability of academic networking systems and the different organisations who might host them.

About The Speaker

Dr Laura James manages people, projects and operations at the Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies at the University of Cambridge, and leads the CARET projects about scholarly networking. Her background is in high tech research and development, and she has worked at AT&T Labs in the US and UK , designing and prototyping cutting edge internet-connected wireless devices and systems.

Dr James was the first employee at AlertMe.com (a consumer electronics company, producing connected home technology) and lead the engineering design team there through from idea to shipping product. She holds Masters and PhD degrees in Engineering from the University of Cambridge. Dr James was a NESTA Crucible fellow in 2007, and is an alumnus of the Royal Academy of Engineering Leadership Award and Executive Engineer programmes.

Podcast Available

Source

[http://arcadiaproject.lib.cam.ac.uk/events/index.php#news100]

Related

CARET’s Thoughts On Social Networking

[http://www.caret.cam.ac.uk/page/carets-thoughts-on-social-networking]

JISC Academic Networking Project

[http://www.caret.cam.ac.uk/page/jisc-academic-networking]

JISC Academic Networking Project Blog

[http://academic-networking.blogspot.com/]

Lalisio - The International Knowledge Network

Lalisio - The international knowledge network enables students and scholars worldwide to find, share and connect knowledge.

[http://www.lalisio.com/]

Vision

Our vision is to empower students, scholars, and professionals in intelligent knowledge networks to share knowledge and make it globally visible, accessible, and ever expanding.

Background of Lalisio

The amount of knowledge increases every day, and with it the time and effort students, scholars, and professionals need to spend to find helpful materials or knowledgeable people with whom they can share, discuss, study, or research common points of interest. Due to the ever increasing amount of information, a great deal of valuable knowledge gets covered today and is ultimately lost.

For this reason, Lalisio offers easy ways to find, share, and connect knowledge worldwide making it more accessible and supporting research and education worldwide. Lalisio connects knowledge-seeking people from around the world with a unique search engine for all relevant data sources, i.e. books, Open Access articles, and publications in renowned journals. Lalisio puts a particular focus on a user-friendly design of its services and allows for a high degree of adaptability of its services to individual user needs. Lalisio is designing its services so that users are able to access them with personal computers as well as mobile devices – no matter whether they are at home, in a library, in a classroom, or in the office – they can use Lalisio to find answers to all kinds of questions. Lalisio integrates information, interaction, and information management, and is about community, content plus the valuable combination of both.

[http://www.lalisio.com/about/index.html]

Related

"Lalisio Literature" is a search engine designed to help you find the right literature for your research, studies, teaching and leisure.

[http://literature.lalisio.com/]

For this purpose, we cooperate with major providers of international literature databases: Top booksellers such as Amazon, Abebooks and Powell's are among our partners as well as open access repositories such as arXiv and PubMed Central. Due to the integration of open access repositories our users can find and access cutting-edge articles mostly free of charge. Based on our analyses of content from numerous sources, we develop helpful search suggestions and relevance indicators for your literature search and help you quickly identify the literature you really want.

[http://literature.lalisio.com/about.html]

See Also

Science 2.0 Gains Another Search Engine: Q-Sensei From Lalisio / Barbara Quint NewsBreaks for Monday/ August 21, 2008

[http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/nbReader.asp?ArticleId=50370]

Project Bamboo

Bamboo is a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary, and inter-organizational effort that brings together researchers in arts and humanities, computer scientists, information scientists, librarians, and campus information technologists to tackle the question: How can we advance arts and humanities research through the development of shared technology services?

Project Bamboo launched in April 2008 with the first workshop at Berkeley. We held three additional instances of Workshop One (Chicago, Paris, and Princeton), and in the process met with over 360 arts and humanities faculty, computer scientists, librarians, information technologists, and others from over 90 colleges, universities, and private and public organizations who were interested in advancing arts and humanities research through shared technologies. Now the project is moving into its next stage -- analysis -- and we need your help. [snip]

Bamboo is an international effort that includes liberal arts colleges, community colleges, research universities, national consortia, disciplinary societies, industry and other organizations that are concerned with advancing the humanities through the development of shared digital technologies. If we move toward a shared services model, any faculty member, scholar, or researcher can use and reuse content, resources, and applications no matter where they reside, what their particular field of interest is, or what support may be available to them. Our goal is to better enable and foster academic innovation through sharing and collaboration.

Project Bamboo is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

[http://projectbamboo.org/]

Proposal

[http://projectbamboo.org/files/docs/bamboo_proposal.pdf]

Workshops

[http://projectbamboo.org/workshops]

Planning Wiki

[http://wiki.projectbamboo.org/display/BPUB/Home]

News and Events

[http://projectbamboo.org/news]

Facebook Group

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=18610674668]

Twine

[http://www.twine.com/twine/1164fg7bp-1vj8/project-bamboo]

Twitter

[http://twitter.com/projectbamboo]

Join Us

[http://projectbamboo.org/join-us]

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS

• Janet Broughton, Dean of Arts and Humanities and Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley
  
• Gregory A. Jackson, Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer, University of Chicago

LEADERSHIP COUNCIL

• Anthony Cascardi, Director, Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, and Professor of Comparative Literature, Rhetoric, and Spanish, University of California, Berkeley


• James Chandler, Director, Franke Institute for the Humanities, and Professor of English Language and Literature, Committees on the History of Culture, Cinema and Media Studies, and Interdisciplinary Studies, and the College, University of Chicago


• Charles Faulhaber, Director, Bancroft Library, and Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Berkeley


• Ian Foster, Director, Computation Institute, and Professor of Computer Science and the College, University of Chicago, and Associate Division Director of Mathematics and ComputerScience, Argonne National Laboratory


• Judith Nadler, Director and University Librarian, The University of Chicago Library, University of Chicago


• Martha Roth, Dean of the Division of the Humanities and Professor of Assyriology, Oriental Institute, Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the College, University of Chicago


• Stuart Russell, Professor and Chair, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
  
• Shelton Waggener, Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief Information Officer, University of California, Berkeley

PROGRAM DIRECTORS

• David A. Greenbaum, Director of Data Services, Information Services and Technology, University of California, Berkeley
  
• Chad J. Kainz, Senior Director for Academic Technologies, Networking Services & Information Technologies, University of Chicago

[http://projectbamboo.org/about-us]

Ologeez!: Literature Search & Networking for Academics

Ologeez (ah-lo-geez)

From the Greek root Ology, it refers to every branch of learning.Connect, share, and learn from colleagues through papers, networked groups, collaborative tools and more.

[http://ologeez.stanford.edu/]

Peer-review literature search, recommendation engine and group collaboration for academics and industry professionals.

Developed by a Stanford graduate student to help find more relevant papers for his Ph.D. research in genetics. Tied into the science literature database, PubMed, and through user contributed peer-reviewed papers, it makes finding and discussing papers a lot easier. Other academic and industry databases to follow.

After developing the literature part, it was a natural progression to make a network for those using the site. Groups can be created to share publications, protocols, AJAX calendars, and create forum discussions. Local and University seminars and conferences can be uploaded and searched based on your academic interests.

[http://www.crunchbase.com/company/ologeez]

WikiGroups

• Biology
• Business/Econ
• Chemistry
• Design
• Engineering
• Law
• Mathematics
• Medicine
• Physics
• Social Sciences

[http://ologeez.stanford.edu/index.php?option=wikigroups&task=showcat&Itemid=53]

Papers

[http://ologeez.stanford.edu/index.php?option=ologeez&act=paper&show=all&mid=0&Itemid=80]

Tags

[http://ologeez.stanford.edu/index.php?option=ologeez&act=paper&task=showTag&Itemid=29]

Ologeez Search for your browser

[http://ologeez.stanford.edu/]

Tours

[http://ologeez.stanford.edu/index.php?option=about&ta=tour&Itemid=82]

Blog

[http://ologeez.stanford.edu/Blog/]

Facebook Page

[http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ologeez-Literature-Search-Networking-for-Academics/40191106744]

See Also

[http://www.killerstartups.com/Web20/ologeez-stanford-edu-a-collective-scholorly-site]

Laboratree: Research Management System

Welcome to Laboratree. Laboratree is being developed in the Indiana University School of Medicine Bioinformatics Core primarily by the Mooney Lab.

The Core/Mooney Lab assists a number of different groups on campus. Laboratree has been a tool used as a training ground to help new hires and students to brush up on their coding skills.

Laboratree is a social networking tool for scientists and a research management tool. Laboratree allows you to grow you network by joining up with various colleagues, groups, and projects. Laboratree allows you to e-mail or send messages to all parts of your network. Laboratree allows you to manage a personal or group blog. Laboratree's latest feature allows you to share papers, documents, and other files with other people on Laboratree.

NOTE: Laboratree is a work and progress ... .

Laboratree is being developed by:

Technical Leads: Brandon Peters, Sean Mooney

Programming: Jamison Hemmert, Peter Baenziger, Joshua Waymire, Kishore K. Kamati, Jessica Dantzer, Craig Sanders, Peter Serguta

Design: Joy Nellis

[http://laboratree.org/pages/about]

SciLink: Science Connected

SciLink™ is an online community with the goal of helping you to discover scientists, authors, and relationships.

SciLink's network of 106,264,967 relationships is built by mining scientific data that exist on the web. Our databases currently contain over 5.8 million scientists and 14 million articles.

[http://www.scilink.com/start.action]

Find, connect, and sharewith other scientists in the SciLink network.

43,368 Users and Growing (August 13 2998)

• New approach to networking
  With over 104 million relationships mined from literature, SciLink already knows who you're connected to.
  
• Share your knowledge
  Meet other scientists with common interests. Participate in group discussions and answer questions to help your colleagues.
  
• Visit Our Job Board
  Find jobs and on our comprehensive job board.
  
• Latest science news
  Keep up with scientific news and happenings from around the web, all in one place.

[http://www.scilink.com/start.action]

Blog

[http://blog.scilink.com/]

Private-Channel Professional Networking Platform Tailored to Needs of Pharmaceutical and Scientific Communities

[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2007_Nov_7/ai_n27436269]

See Also

[http://www.listio.com/web20/app/SciLink/]

Facebook Page

[http://www.facebook.com/pages/SciLink/18291367513]

Research1 : YouTube + Facebook + You

Research1 is an online community that allows researchers to collaborate with peers, and share information and digital media with the general public. Research1, developed by ResearchChannel, allows geographically dispersed teams to work together from anywhere in the world and it provides an ideal outlet for researchers to fulfil their public outreach requirements.

Research1 will provide public access to government-funded research, even while it is in progress, direct interaction with and between experts at the leading edge of their respective disciplines and participation in a community that encourages and supports a level of discourse not commonly available to those outside of academia.

Primary functions

• Serve as a premier outlet for researchers to fulfil their public outreach requirements
• Foster interaction and communication between members of the public and researchers
• Provide a collaborative platform to teams who could potentially be geographically (globally) dispersed

Key Benefits

• Greater access to the fruits of governmentfunded research, even while it is in progress
• Direct interaction with experts at the leading edge of their respective disciplines
• Participation in a community that encourages and supports a level of discourse that is not commonly available to those outside of academia

How does it work?

Individual researchers or teams can establish a Research1 “Project Hub” for each research project. This public-facing webspace may contain up to 10 GB of text, photographs, audio and video that may be shared with the general public or act as a private collaboration space.

A simple set of Web-based tools are provided to create each Project Hub, upload and publish content, launch a blog to discuss ongoing work and facilitate interaction through project or discipline-specific email forums. Video files are automatically transcoded and thumbnailed for cross-platform viewing while maintaining the object in its original format for subsequent use.

What is AARNet doing?

Research 1 is currently in Beta testing. AARNet will use this period to determine a fit of the portal’s functionality to the needs and trends of Australian researchers for publicly disseminating research outcomes using digital media.

AARNet will use the outcomes of the beta testing and initial launch to determine how the portal can have regionalisation capability added as the portal populates over time. The primary focus is on using the portal as significant regional and international presence for Australian research.

The access to and use of this portal provides key opportunities for Australian researchers to both promote their own activities and view peer’s activities internationally.

[http://www.aarnet.edu.au/library/AARNet_Research1.pdf]

See Also

[http://uwnews.org/uweek/uweekarticle.asp?articleID=42953]

About ResearchChannel

[http://www.researchchannel.org/news/overview.asp]