The &quot;social&quot; side of digital science

Keynote for Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries 2017 The theory and practice of digital libraries provides a long history of thought around how to manage knowledge ranging from collection development, to cataloging and resource description. These tools were all designed to make knowledge findable and accessible to people. Even technical progress in information retrieval and question answering are all targeted to helping answer a human’s information need. However, increasingly demand is for data. Data that is needed not for people’s consumption but to drive machines. As an example of this demand, there has been explosive growth in job openings for Data Engineers – professionals who prepare data for machine consumption. In this talk, I overview the information needs of machine intelligence and ask the question: Are our knowledge management techniques applicable for serving this new consumer?

Given at the ALPSP 2011 conference.

Technology Education

the “social” side
of digital science
kaitlin thaney
@kaythaney
ALSPS, 16 sept 2011

about Digital Science
our view of “social”
changing behavior

technology company
publisher link
london, nyc, tokyo

investment arm
incubator role
in-house dev

tiered approach
build to scale
researcher-focused

what we think of as
“social” in research
(from 33,000 feet)

social has been worked into
(almost) every aspect of our
online interaction

science is changing
(and the research workflow)

research
idea

publish lit review

share results materials

retest
analyze experiment

collect data

blocking points
(to name a few ... )
idea

publish lit review

share results materials

retest
analyze experiment

collect data

digital research
(will revisit later)
idea
articles
proceedings content
prof activities
(metadata) mentorship
patents
share results the non-digital “stuff”

retest
analysis protocols
synthesis parameters
datasets

science =
inherently social
(with a few bugs)
(think knowledge exchange)

patents are no better
(in many cases, worse)

CC-BY-2.0 - Plaxco Lab - http://www.flickr.com/photos/34857812@N04/

protocols
parameters
calibration
misc. lit

sharing information
different types of “data”

“i invented a folder based
system ...”

“yeah, we had a LIMS. it only
ever got used to store photos
from lab nights out.”

social for data

feedback, visibility, etc.

sharing information
still hits most’s mental block

the “social issue”
best practices
behaviour roadblocks
discipline / researcher specific
change in what we measure

“scientific contribution”
has moved beyond just the
paper

digital research
(some new outputs to consider)
idea
articles
proceedings content
prof activities
(metadata) mentorship
patents
conversations the non-digital “stuff”

results protocols
queries lab notebooks
datasets

tools for decision makers
(research admin / funders)

using technology to spur
cultural shift

“ what do we want
on the back of our
(science) baseball
Top Trumps cards? “

- paul groth (et al.)

technology can help
perception issue
change the way we
view/value social

work towards reproducibility
encourage new content uses
keep in mind social barriers

thank you.

k.thaney@digital-science.com
www.digital-science.com
@kaythaney

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