Sharing ideas and sharing data: Researchers and Web 2.0

Lucy Power & Eric T. MeyerOxford Internet Institute

NeSC Workshop on Users, e-Research, and Web 2.0, 18 Jan 2010

Saunders, N., Beltrao, P., Jensen, L., Jurczak, D., Krause, R., Kuhn, M. et al. (2009). Microblogging the ISMB: A New Approach to Conference Reporting. PLoS Comput Biol, 5(1).

Virtual London

Image Source: Hudson-Smith, Digital Urban Blog at http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2007/08/ordnance-survey-and-google-statements.html

GeoVUE Node

Virtual London

GeoVUE Node

Image Source: Hudson-Smith, Digital Urban Blog at http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2007/08/ordnance-survey-and-google-statements.html

GeoVUE Node

Maptube

Incentives

• Openness• Network benefits• Advantages of scale (plus corresponding

disadvantages)• Sharing effort to filter complex ideas and data

Barriers

• Friendfeed– Cultural / field

differences– Work habits– Information selection /

volume

• GeoVue– Institutions– IP

In neither case were technological limitations particularly important

(although could be for certain users)

Oxford e-Social Science (OeSS)Node of the National e-Social Science

Directorate

Oxford Internet InstituteUniversity of Oxford

Lucy PowerDPhil Candidate

lucy.power@oii.ox.ac.uk

Eric T. MeyerResearch Fellow

eric.meyer@oii.ox.ac.ukhttp://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/meyer

Oxford e-Social Science Project