October 2011
29 posts
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Report from #review session
Starting with first principles: Broadening the definition of scholarly communication, review, and peer
The communications of today’s scholars encompass not only book and journal publications, but also less formal textual communications and a variety of other work products, many of them made possible by recent advances in information technology. It is not uncommon today for an academic CV or...
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Media for eScholarship
Composite Media eScholarship Short List of Tools to consider
This list isn’t meant to be comprehensive but is the group’s choices of suggested tools and techniques to enhance eScholarship
· Low level Media Tools
o Mac
§ Screen capture- Opt-Shift-4 Whole screen
§ Application capture- Opt-Shift-Space Application screen
§ Application demonstration capture -
o Windows
§ Screen...
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Platforms for scholarly communication
What is a platform? A platform is more than “software”: it is in fact an ecosystem that includes software, data, services and people. It is in its essence sociotechnical, and its function is to enable research and scholarly communication. The Web, in its implementation and its philosophy, is the basis of each of the emergent, transformative scholarly communication platforms. A useful notion in...
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Types of resource
basic resources => data types => PNG images, Excel tables, create resources => web based collaborative tools => google docs, google tables, share resources => sharing platforms => dropbox, others discover resources => good search tools => publish resources => curation, linking, discovery => dryad, dataverse
“Actions of a researcher”:
1. Plan and...
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#recognition part 1
Now that you have your work published, how do you become recognized? Of course, there are many different possibilities to distribute your profile and display your work. How do you get started with this process? Is it helpful to have profiles on LinkedIn, VIVO, Mendeley, BioMedExpert. Which tool is the best place to post your profile and published works? In the present time, there is not one...
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Educational Vignette: How to gain recognition for...
The following is addressed to a researcher seeking to understand how they can best present themselves and their research capabilities, skills, and expertise to the wider world.
You do great work, but the contribution you can make to the wider community isn’t always clear. How do people find you? What can you do to take the work you do and represent that to the wider public, whether you are...
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Notepad for the Recognition Group
The working notes for the recognition group can be found at:
http://bit.ly/msr-recognition
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Link to Literature matrix
Matrix is posted on http://docs.com/FHN9
#platforms workbook →
#platforms are being discussed here in a collaborative fashion
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Notes for #review group
We’re taking notes and chatting here: bit.ly/sHt9OP
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Video links now posted on the Workshop website
Transformers!
All of the videos for today’s demos/presentation will soon be posted and available on the workshop website (on the agenda page) at http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/events/escience2011-scholarly-communications/agenda.aspx. Feel free to share these links!
-jld
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Updated version of the FORCE11 whitepaper
Dear all,
Just to hammer home the fact that this is very much a work in progress, enclosed pse find a next iteration of the manifesto, with updated references.
I’ll see if I can update the hard copy pile next to the registration desk as well :-)!
Links:
- to the html version of this document is http://elsatglabs.com/labs/anita/Force11/Force11Manifesto20111024.html
- to other versions of...
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Rough Transcript of my Opening Remarks
Dear Colleagues:
It is an honor to be asked to address this group, some of whom I seem to see more than my own family, to set the stage for this 2011 Microsoft Research sponsored eScience workshop on Transforming Scholarly Communication.
The first fundamental question to ask is, do we need a transformation in the first place? Obviously we all believe we do otherwise we would not be here, but...
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Pre-reading for Harvard/MSR eScience Workshop
Colleagues,
A bit of recommended reading to suggest prior to the workshop – something hot off the press!
One of our workshop attendees, Anita de Waard (the Disruptive Technologies Director at Elsevier Labs) is sharing with us a DRAFT version of a document that was prepared by attendees at workshop held in Dagstuhl, German this past August. The group was convened to address the same challenge we...
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Bios of the Organizers
Bio sketches of the meeting organizers, who will float from group to group:
Alyssa Goodman, Harvard University
Alberto Pepe, Harvard University
Mary Lee Kennedy, Harvard University
Malgorzata (Gosia) Stergios, Harvard University
Lee Dirks, Microsoft Research
Alex Wade, Microsoft Research
Joshua M. Greenberg, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Chris Mentzel, Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation
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Bios of attendees in #review theme
Charles Alcock, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophsyics
Peter Binfield, PLoS
Amy Brand, Harvard University
Crystal Fantry, Wolfram Alpha
Gregg Gordon, SSRN
Sarah Greene, Faculty of 1000
Carl Lagoze , Cornell University
Clifford Lynch, CNI
Tom McMail, Microsoft Research
Jason Priem, UNC-Chapel Hill
Katina Rogers, Sloan Foundation
Tom Scheinfeldt, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History...
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Bios of attendees in #resources theme
Alberto Accomazzi, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (ADS)
Phil Bourne , UCSD
Mercé Crosas, Harvard, IQSS
James Cuff, Research computing at Harvard FAS
Stephen Friend, SAGE Bionetworks
Paul Ginsparg, Cornell University
John Kunze, CDL / UC3
Hilmar Lapp, Informatics at NESCent
Liz Lyon, UKOLN
Chris Mentzel, Moore Foundation
August Muench, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
...
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Bios of attendees in #recognition theme
Micah Altman, Harvard University, IQSS
Patrick Brown, Co-founders/representatives of PLoS
Martin Fenner, Hannover
Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Pomona College & NYU
Daniel Goroff, Sloan Foundation
Sinisa Hrvatin, Labtiva / ReadCube
Jessica Mezei, Mendeley
Cameron Neylon , STFC (UK)
Rafael Sidi, Elsevier
Peter Suber, Berkman Center
Sharon Traweek, UCLA
Jevin West, University of Washington
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Bios of attendees in #platforms theme
Mark Abbott, Oregon State University
Taliesin Beynon, Wolfram Alpha
Rachel Bruce, JISC
Derick Campbell, Microsoft Research
Tim Clark, Harvard University
Tom Cramer, Stanford University Library
Trisha Cruse, CDL / UC3
David De Roure , Oxford OeRC
Cory Knobel, Pitt iSchool
Jill Mesirov, Broad Institute (MIT)
Alberto Pepe, Harvard University (CfA)
Thomas Robitaille, Harvard-Smithsonian...
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Bios of attendees in #media theme
Magchiel Bijsterbosch, SURF
Aaron Culich, Univ of California, Berkeley
Josh Greenberg, Sloan Foundation
Chris Lintott, Zooniverse
Mimi McClure, NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure
Paul Oka, Microsoft Research - New England
Moshe Pritsker, Journal of Visualized Experiments
Jeffrey Schnapp, Harvard (MetaLab)
Susan Schreibman, TCD - Digital Humanities Observatory, Dublin
Katie Vale, Harvard...
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Bios of attendees in #literature theme
Phil Campbell, Nature, Editor-in-Chief
Matthew Cockerill, BioMed Central
Anita De Waard , Disruptive Technologies Director, Elsevier Labs
Christopher Erdmann, CfA Library
Michael Fisher, Harvard University Press
Jessie Hey, University of Southampton
Zak Kohane, Harvard HMS Library
Charles Parnot, Papers
David Shotton, Oxford (Zoology)
Gosia Stergios, Harvard
Kaitlin Thaney, Digital...
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The Five Stars of Online Journal Articles – an...
Those attending the Transforming Scholarly Communication workshop might be interested to read my thoughts about evaluating journal articles, in a new article with the above title: There is a summary blog post at http://opencitations.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/the-five-stars-of-online-journal-articles-3/. This points to a longer article, submitted for publication, with a preprint in Nature...
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Dear Transformers... Part 1
Hi Everyone, we realized some of you might like the logistical/philosophical information that was in my email to you all on 10/11/11 to be available on this site, so here it is. Best, Alyssa
11 October 2011
Dear Transformers,
My goal is to keep this email as short as possible, so that you’ll read to the end. For more details (e.g. directions, etc.), please follow the links within the...
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Demonstrations on RESOURCES on Meeting Day 1
RESOURCES Seamless technologies for literature and data (literature/data search engines; cloud-based, group sharing, adjustable permissions, integration with search) Facilitator: Phil Bourne, Professor of Pharmacology, University of California, San Diego
Alberto Accomazzi, Project Manager, NASA Astrophysics Data System at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (Demo of ADS and ADS Labs)
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Demonstrations on REVIEW on Meeting Day 1
REVIEW Standard publication-based systems, alternative rating systems, etc. Facilitator: Amy Brand, Program Manager, Harvard Office of Scholarly Communication
Peter Binfield, Publisher, Public Library of Science (Demo of Article Level Metrics)
Sarah Greene, Editor-in-Chief, Faculty of 1000 (Demo of F1000)
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Demonstrations on LITERATURE on Meeting Day 1
LITERATURE Publications based on text and still images (creation, reviewing, dissemination, archiving, reproducibility)
Facilitator: Phil Campbell, Editor-in-Chief, Nature
Kaitlin Thaney, Manager of External Partnerships, Digital Science (Demos of Digital Science Products)
Alex Wade, Director for Scholarly Communication, MSR (Demos of Chem4Word and Article Authoring Add-in)
Charles Parnot,...
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Demonstrations on MEDIA on Meeting Day 1
MEDIA Production, distribution, archiving (e.g., video, 3-D modeling, databases) Facilitator: Curtis Wong, Microsoft Research
Phil Bourne, Professor of Pharmacology, University of California, San Diego (Demos of SciVee and BioLit)
Moshe Pritsker, CEO, Editor-in-Chief, Co-founder, Journal of Visualized Experiments (Demo of JoVe)
Martin Wattenberg, Co-leader, “Big Picture” Data Visualization...
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Demonstrations on PLATFORMS on Meeting Day 1
PLATFORMS Project collaboration software, “smart” laboratory software, provenance systems
Facilitator: Jill Mesirov, Associate Director, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
David De Roure, Professor Of e-Research, Oxford e-Research Centre (Demo of myExperiment)
Tim Clark, Director Of Bioinformatics, MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease, Harvard Medical School (Demo of SWAN)
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Demonstrations on RECOGNITION on Meeting Day 1
RECOGNITION How can we best enable cooperation and adoption? Facilitator: Cameron Neylon, Senior Scientist at Science and Technology Facilities Council
Jevin West, University of Washington (Demo of Eigenfactor)
Jessica Mezei, Mendeley Community Liaison (Demo of Mendeley)
Rafael Sidi, VP, Product Management at Elsevier (Demo of SciVerse)
Lee Dirks, Director, Microsoft Research Connections (Demo...
