eResearch Social Networks and Semantic WebGrid

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e-ResearchSocial Networks and Semantic Web/Grid

• Prof Carole Goble
• The University of Manchester, UK
• carole.goble_at_manchester.ac.uk
• myGrid Taverna, myExperiment
• Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute-UK

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www.myGrid.org.uk
Provenance Ontology
Service annotation and curation
Service Ontology
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PhDs at Work
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• Competitive advantage.
• Be the first with the Nature paper.
• Academic vanity
• Credit, credibility, fame, acclaim,
• recognition, peer respect, reputation.
• Adoption
• Get my stuff adopted / recognised
• More funding

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• Being found out
• Open to rigorous inspection.
• Being beaten
• Beaten by lab X
• Protecting my turf.
• Releasing results too early.
• Getting left behind. Being out of fashion.
• Looking stupid
• Being misinterpreted or misrepresented.
• Looking stupid. Losing control. Taking a risk

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Social Networking
Open and Purposeless? Network effects
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Social Networking
Open and Purposeless? Network effects
Collaboration
Closed and Purposeful
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Social Networking
Open Sharing
Shared Content and Opinion. Self interest and
vanity publishinh Open notebook
science Blogs Respect for rewards and fears.
Collaboration
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Social Networking
Open Sharing
Community-sourced Content / Social Curation
Shared Content and Opinion. The few for the
many. Open and closed. Respect for rewards and
fears.
Collaboration
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Social Networking
Open Sharing
Community-sourced Content / Social Curation
Collaboration
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Role of Semantic Web?
Data
Inspired by Jean-Claude Bradley
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Human-Human
Human-Machine
Machine-Machine
Tags
Social network analysis Auto recommending
Social Networking
FOAF
Open Sharing
Content aggregation Structured blogging Controlled
vocabularies Open Notebook Science
Automated experiments Text mining Information
mining Auto content scrapping Linked
Data Semantic mash ups Quality
Community-sourced Content
Controlled vocabularies Tagging Indexing
To be completed
Content aggregation Structured blogging Controlled
vocabularies Open Notebook Science
Collaboration
Controlled vocabularies Tagging
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The economics of social collaboration and
semantic content for e-Science

• Knowledge markets
• Tipping points
• Just enough, just in time
• Jam for me
• Long tail science

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• Role of Semantic Web? A bridge.
• Between social networks, collaboration and
  socially generated content
• Across human-human, human-machine and
  machine-machine spectrum.
• Semantic Web Technologies have the potential to
  be the bridge.
• But we need to explicitly support the selfish
  scientist. (Sidney already has his prizes).