A Report on Connotea

Ian Mulvany, Connotea Product Development Manager, Nature Publishing Group

Thank you for you Attention

Nature Web Publishing group

Nature Web Publishing group

OTMI

Second Life Nature

History behind Connotea

Deliciously scientific

Timo Hannay, Ben Lund, Martin Flack (Neo Reality)

Social Bookmarking

• del.icio.us founded by Joshua Schachter in 2003, acquired by Yahoo in Dec, 2005

• Key features of this service:

• save bookmarks online• add tags• simple url structure to retrieve data via tags• tags provide folksonomy over bookmarks• many users allow searching links by popularity

Examples of del.icio.us url’s http://www.del.icio.us/popular/Elsevier

http://www.del.icio.us/popular/

http://www.del.icio.us/tag/conference

http://www.del.icio.us/tag/conference

http://www.del.icio.us/tag/conference Title

http://www.del.icio.us/tag/conference Title

http://www.del.icio.us/tag/conference Title

Time

http://www.del.icio.us/tag/conference Title

Time

http://www.del.icio.us/tag/conference Title

Time

Popularity

http://www.del.icio.us/tag/conference Title

Time

Popularity

http://www.del.icio.us/tag/conference Title

Time

Popularity

Poster

http://www.del.icio.us/tag/conference Title

Time

Popularity

Poster

http://www.del.icio.us/tag/conference Title

Time

Tags

Popularity

Poster

Academic Bookmarking

Like del.icio.us but with::

Citation data

Private groups/posts

Import/Export for article writing

Title

Title

Title

Date

Title

Date

Title

DateAuthor

Title

DateAuthor

Title

DateAuthor

PMID/DOI

perl

mod_perl

Template Toolkit

MySQL

Open Source, GPL2.5 v 1.8.1

web1.75 application

Amazon.pm DOI.pm LivingReviews.pm PLoS.pm RIS.pm SpamDNSBL.pm autodiscovery.pmBibTeX.pm Dlib.pm NASA.pm PMC.pm Scitation.pm Springer.pm blog.pmBlackwell.pm Highwire.pm NPG.pm PNAS.pm Self.pm Wiley.pm ePrints.pmBmcPdf.pm Hubmed.pm OUP.pm Pubmed.pm Simple.pm arXiv.pm

http://www.connotea.org/user/IanMulvany

http://www.connotea.org/users/tag/scifoo

http://www.connotea.org/user/IanMulvany/tag/scifoo

http://www.connotea.org/user/IanMulvany/tag/science2.0+citation

http://www.connotea.org/user/IanMulvany/tag/science

http://www.connotea.org/data/user/IanMulvany

http://www.connotea.org/data/users/tag/scifoo

http://www.connotea.org/data/user/IanMulvany/tag/scifoo

http://www.connotea.org/data/user/IanMulvany/tag/science2.0+citation

http://www.connotea.org/data/user/IanMulvany/tag/science

http://www.connotea.org/rss/user/IanMulvany

http://www.connotea.org/rss/users/tag/scifoo

http://www.connotea.org/rss/user/IanMulvany/tag/scifoo

http://www.connotea.org/rss/user/IanMulvany/tag/science2.0+citation

http://www.connotea.org/rss/user/IanMulvany/tag/science

- User- Date- Bookmarks- URI-Tag- Edit- Free Text Search

- DOI/PMID- Citation Data

“After you make an API, the first thing people want to do is write a wrapper in their favorite language”

“After you make an API, the first thing people want to do is write a wrapper in their favorite language”

Java

“After you make an API, the first thing people want to do is write a wrapper in their favorite language”

JavaPython

“After you make an API, the first thing people want to do is write a wrapper in their favorite language”

JavaPython

Perl

“After you make an API, the first thing people want to do is write a wrapper in their favorite language”

JavaPython

PerlRuby

RDF HTML

RSS

images via flickr: Barry Hennessy, Hettie McFarlane, wallyg

“What I keep hearing is, how can we impact factorize open science.  Well, the answer is, you can't.  Let's stop trying to find some magic algorithm whereby a machine tells us what quality science is.  What's completely mad to me about this is that we already have processes to assess science quality.  Every time you review a new student, every time you look at a grant proposal, heck, even on the infamous tenure committees and research assessments, a group of humans looks at a portfolio of existing or proposed work, and decides whether it is good enough.So if I may modestly propose, let's continue to do that, and no one other than journal publishers should ever look at impact factor numbers again.  Arise, qualitative assessment, begone quantitative nonsense.”

- Richard Akerman

Citation Analysis?

People have personal search algorithms, some good some bad

Social bookmarking sites are often write only

By making collections public and tagged you provide a resource

For example I read what my boss is tagging

This is kind of an orthogonal use case for these kinds of services, even before we add in more

complex algorithms

CollaborationSerendipidous discovery

StorageManage (tagging)

Recommendations(algorithmic)

Don’t want to give a false positive

3rd Party Tools

http://mekentosj.com/

http://baoilleach.blogspot.com/2007/06/add-to-connotea-from-journal-pages.html

http://baoilleach.blogspot.com/2007/06/add-to-connotea-from-journal-pages.html

http://baoilleach.blogspot.com/2007/06/add-to-connotea-from-journal-pages.html

http://baoilleach.blogspot.com/2007/06/add-to-connotea-from-journal-pages.html

http://www.itfutures.ed.ac.uk/robert_muetzelfeldt_synopsis.htm

http://apps.similette.com/multiguise/

http://www.connotea.org/wiki/User:MrED

http://www.connotea.org/wiki/EntityDescriber

http://i9606.blogspot.com/2007/08/connotea-semantic-web-ed.html

http://www.connotea.org/wiki/User:MrED

http://www.connotea.org/wiki/EntityDescriber

http://i9606.blogspot.com/2007/08/connotea-semantic-web-ed.html

http://www.connotea.org/wiki/User:MrED

http://www.connotea.org/wiki/EntityDescriber

http://i9606.blogspot.com/2007/08/connotea-semantic-web-ed.html

http://www.connotea.org/blog

http://www.connotea.org/wiki/ConnoteaTools

Stats

Total number of verified email accounts

Number of people adding bookmarks

Total number of tags

Total number of unique tags

11032

Current library usage

OpenId

OpenAuth

OpenSocial

API Extension

Nature Integration

Better Tagging

Interface Interface

More parsers

Recommender 2.0

Citation Manager

TextTextText

Graph Analysis?

Where’s my Bibliography?

COINS extension?ATOM feed?SSE?OAI-ORE CIOor Something entirely new with a new acronym to contend with?

The End

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