Web 2.0 in Science

Wouter Gerrtisma, Marianne Renkema & Hugo BesemerWageningen UR Library

Time table

9:00 Web 2.0 for Science : Introduction 9:30 Social Bookmarking 10:30 Working at documents with a group 11:15 Keeping-up-to date with RSS 11:45Personal start pages

2.0

The Web was made for Scientist

Tim Berners-Lee proposed the WWW in 1989 as a collaborative workspace for scientists

Tim O’Reilly and company coined the term Web 2.0 in 2004. Essentially the social web for scientist as envisaged by TBL

Source: Markus Angermeier

Web 1.0 Web 2.0 DoubleClick => Google AdSense

Ofoto => Flickr

Akamai => BitTorent

mp3.com => Napster

Brintannica Online => Wikipedia

Personal Websites => Blogging

Domain Name Speculation => Search Engine Optimization

Page Views => Costs Per Click

Screen Scraping => Web Services

Publishing => Participation

CMS => Wiki

Directories => Tagging (folksonomy)

Stickiness => SyndicationSource: T. O’Reilly, 2005

Science 1.0 Science 2.0 Journals => Participative communities

Conferences => Web events

Listservs => Blogs

Faculty 1000 => Postgenomic/Digg

Individual Protocols => Wikis/shared protocols

Science encyclopedias => Wiki/scholarpedia

Reference managers => Social Bookmarking

Cluster computing => Boinc

Screen Scraping => Web Services

Publishing => Participation

CMS => Wiki

Directories => Tagging (folksonomy)

Genbank => Distributed annotation systemsAdapted from Butler (2006)

6 Pillars of Web 2.0

User generated content Wisdom of crowds Data, data everywhere Architecture of participation Network effects Openness

Adapted after: Anderson 2007 .

Examples of Web 2.0 in action

Blogs

Blogs from Wageningen UR Confessions of a closet environmentalist chem-bla-ics Voir Wageningen

Blog aggregation Chemical Blogspace Postgenomic Scienceblogs

Why should (PhD-)Students blog?

Practice your writing skills Sharpen your analytical capabilities Build a network Market yourself

Wikis

Wikipedia Scholarpedia Citizendium

Scientific wikis Chempedia OpenWetWare FluWiki

Social bookmarking

General social bookmarking sited Del.icio.us, furl, diigo etc.

Scientific bookmarking sites Connotea 2Collab Citulike Zotero Bibsonomy Scholar.com H20 Penntags Unalog Mtagger

Other applications

RSS (feeds) Podcasts/Vodcasts Social networking Rating/ recommendations Collaborative office applications Open source, data, science

Time table

9:00 Web 2.0 for Science : Introduction 9:30 Social Bookmarking 10:30 Working at documents with a group 11:15 Keeping-up-to date with RSS 11:45Personal start pages

Social bookmarking

What you can do with social bookmarking tools: Save and acces your bookmarks from any

computer

Share your bookmarks and access other people’s bookmarks

Search the website and find other people who are interested in the same topic and check out their research

Tagging

Words to describe the content of the bookmark (e.g. social_bookmarking, howto)

Codes (e.g. UGUL08)

Qualifier (e.g. *****)

Collaboration

Use a shared account (e.g. web2academia )

Use a special tag

Create a network or group

Sending links to other users

List of social bookmarking products:

Blue Dot BookmarkSync del.icio.us CiteULike Connotea Digg Diigo Furl GiveALink.org Linkwad

Ma.gnolia My Web Mixx Newsvine Propeller.com Reddit Simpy SiteBar StumbleUpon 2Collab

Most popular one

Aimed at scientists

Aimed at scientists

Demo on Del.icio.us

Exercises with Del.icio.us and Connotea(http://web2academia.pbwiki.com/

Social+Bookmarking)

Keeping up to date with RSS

Working with a group at documents

Wiki’s

Advantages Easy to let a web based document grow organically Version control: easy to see who created a page and who

changed it

Disadvantages Not easy to create an offline document (but it is geting better) Shared tables are a challenge  Alternative Online office applications like Zoho or Google Docs

Keeping up to date with RSS

RSS has different versions (0.91, 1.0, 2.0, Atom) and meanings (RDF Site Summary, Rich Site Summary, Realy Simple Syndication)

“Pull” rather than “push” A site can feature one or more Newsfeeds A “reader” is required

RSS is XML

Offline reader (for example Sage)

Online reader: Bloglines

How to find scientific feeds? See wiki