Fridolin Wild Thomas Ullmann

Peter Scott

The Stellar Science 2.0 Mash-UP Infrastructure

OVERVIEW

Science 2.0 Mash-Ups Architecture Research Environment(s) Infrastructure Components Conclusions/ Future directions

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Science 2.0

In the words of Waldrop (2008), science 2.0 relates to “new practices of scientists who post raw experimental results, nascent theories, claims of discovery and draft papers on the Web for others to see and comment on”.

Underwood et al. (2009) postulate even further that science 2.0 offers more potential than mere efficiency optimization (through improved workflows and better sharing possibilities): participation in research can be broadened beyond existing scientific communities. A science 2.0 is about crowd-sourcing of ideas and the refinement of knowledge in an open debate.

Shneiderman [4] adds another aspect and sees in Science 2.0 “new technologies [that] continue to reorder whole disciplines”, as “increased collaboration [is stimulated] through these socio-technical systems”. Gillet et al. [1] see in Science 2.0 a concept that federates a variety of communication channels to ease internal communication within an existing scientific network and beyond.

SCIENCE 2.0

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Mash-Ups and their Practice

NEW PRACTICESVersion 1

End-user friendly gluing together of publicly available processing services with (public and private) data, often rendered in a widget for access and presentation

Long-tail software development: not dozens of markets of millions, but millions of markets of dozens

Form of opportunistic design (Hartmann et al., 2008; Ncube et al., 2008; Gamble & Gamble, 2008)

MASH-UPS

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Science 2.0 Architecture

STELLAR SCIENCE 2.0 MASH-UP

ARCHITECTURE Users involve in use-cases. Each case deploys widgets in

support of the given task. Widgets use infrastructure

services & data. All three can emanate in

partners’ legacy systems. A directory serves the

management of the portfolio. Interoperability standards

secure the flexible recombination of widgets, services, and data.

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Science 2.0 Environments

RUNTIME CONTAINER: ELGG & WOOKIE

STELLAROpen Archive

RSS

grazr

Simile

RSStransf.

D1.1 livingdeliverable

directoryservice

http://TELeurope.eu/ 10

Feed ecosystem

Feed ecosystem

THE TEL RESEARCHER ENVIRONMENT

http://universe.stellarnet.eu/

http://telpedia.stellarnet.eu/11

THE STELLAR FEED ECOSYSTEM

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convertersaggregators

filters

http://universe.stellarnet.eu/mod/visitelf/pages/vis.php,currently beta tested for public release on teleurope.eu

WIDGET: TEL EXHIBIT

OPEN ARCHIVE

Summary

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SUMMARY AND OUTLOOK

• Science 2.0 (new practices and new tools)• Science 2.0 mash-ups

– Architectural framework – Mash-up environments (+ Widgets, directory, APIs)

Future focus on recommendation and information visualization widgets

• Science 2.0 data– Publication data – Social Media data (alpha)

• Science 2.0 practice– Individual– collaborative, and community practice (future focus)

Thomas Ullmannt.ullmann@open.ac.ukhttp://twitter.com/ThomasUllmann