Personal Information Management for Software Engineering Researchers

Dragan GaševićAthabasca University

Email: dgasevic@acm.org

The Social Web is here!

An eye opener…

Retrieval

Bookmarking

Writing

Retrieval

Bookmarking

Writing

Retrieval

CollaboratingBookmarking

Communities

Writing

Retrieval

Prototyping

Bookmarking

Versioning

Tracking

Analyzing

Sharing/Reusing

Collecting

Collaborating

Communities

Writing

Retrieval

Peer-Review

Presenting

Prototyping

Bookmarking

Versioning

Tracking

Analyzing

Sharing/Reusing

Collecting

Collaborating

Communities

Personal Information Management Today’s reality in research: isolated islands

ResearchersContent•Libraries•Multimedia•Reuse•Bookmarking

Collaboration•Chat•Discussion•Wikis

Community•Social networks•CoPs•Blogs

Analysis•Excel•SPSS

Peer-review•Conferences•Journals

Execution•Prototyping•Tracking•Collecting

Desktop•Email•Browsers

Writing•Word•Latex•GoogleDoc

Policies•Identity•Privacy•Access•Ethics

Sharing•Software•Data•Content•Methodologies

Is there any solution?

CORAALhttp://coraal.deri.ie:8080/coraal/

CORAALhttp://coraal.deri.ie:8080/coraal/

sClippyhttp://sclippy.semanticauthoring.org

Is there any better solution?

Personal Information Management Only some fragments are connected

ResearchersContent•Libraries•Multimedia•Reuse•Bookmarking

Collaboration•Chat•Discussion•Wikis

Community•Social networks•CoPs•Blogs

Analysis•Excel•SPSS

Peer-review•Conferences•Journals

Execution•Prototyping•Tracking•Collecting

Desktop•Email•Browsers

Writing•Word•Latex•GoogleDoc

Policies•Identity•Privacy•Access•Ethics

Sharing•Software•Data•Content•Methodologies

Personal research spaces

Portfolios

Proven instrument which increase motivation Stimulates knowledge building and sharing But, needs enabling prerequisites

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Google Reader

Is the Social Web so new!?

Have you hard of social constructivism?

Motivation Factors

Different community rewarding schemesRecognize presence and contribution

http://www.facdev.niu.edu/spectrum/images/articles/coi-model.gif

Supporting Freedom

None of us should be locked into one place forever

We Need Freedom!

Free data sharing and linking

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Linked Data

Linked Data

SPARLQ end pointsThey enable data mash-ups

Cultural Change

Informal does not oppose to research & knowledgeNew and different

Cultural Change

Cultural Change

Cultural Changes

Description:

Select the Learning Activity you want to document about: Learning Activity

This Learning Activity is in accordance with ...

Modify

Select the Competences you have achieved within Learning Activity : AddCompetency

Achievements

Assesment

Competency 1: This competency ...

Select the Assessor: AddAssessor

Assessor 1

Organization

Choose the Method of Assessment: Assessment

Send Request for Assessment

Assessor 2View profile

View Assessment History Export to my Portfolio

Learning Activity

My Learning Path Record and Document

Add Additional Notes

Companies and Publishers Recognize Change

Printed pages are JUST Legacy

More Radical Change!

Wiki-based papersNano-publications [Mons & Velterop, 2009]

Better dissemination and evolution

Stimulate Creativity

Ecosystems for

collaborative knowledge building and sharing

DEPTHS

Moodle

ArgoUML

LOCO-Analyst

Yahoo! Design Pattern LibraryPortland Pattern RepositoryHillside.net Pattern Catalog

Developing New Policies

Negotiate rules and condition for data useCopyright issues

Trust federations and user-centered identity

http://blog.hubspot.com/Portals/249/images//HubSpot-Making-Friends.gif

Thank you!

Questions?