FUTURE OF THE ARTICLELinked data, “the dish“ and the value of an interface

Chris MavergamesDirector of Web Development, The Cochrane Collaboration

Acknowledgements

Thanks and h/t to: Silver Oliver, Ontoba (http://www.ontoba.com) Lorne Becker, Cochrane Innovations

(http://innovations.cochrane.org) Linn Brandt, DECIDE Project (http://www.decide-collaboration.eu) Scott Brinker, (http://chiefmartec.com/) Duncan Bloor, BBC Sophie Hill, Cochrane Consumers and Communication Review

Group Ilkka Kunnamo, (http://www.duodecim.fi) Julian Elliott, Monash University and Cochrane Collaboration Cochrane Linked Data Project colleagues Many others who inspired me

Key concepts

Forgot one – “dish“

Cochrane Reviews

Cochrane Reviews

Have always been electronic Summary of a research project, not really article PICO framework Search, assess and analysis Many of the key components buried in the

document: Forest plots, Risk of Bias assessments, etc.

Continuously updated when new studies are reported

PICO Population Intervention Comparison Outcome

Ilkka Kunnamo

Cochrane has lots of user groups

Clinicians Consumers Guideline writers Policy makers Journalists Authors of other systematic reviews

Different users have different needs...

Getting outside the review/article “container“

Document view

XML <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?><COCHRANE_REVIEW DESCRIPTION="For publication" DOI="10.1002/14651858.CD008440" GROUP_ID="HIV" ID="589309120202025823" MERGED_FROM="" MODIFIED="2011-05-06 12:29:46 +0100" MODIFIED_BY="Rachel Marshall" REVIEW_NO="" REVMAN_SUB_VERSION="5.1.1" REVMAN_VERSION="5" SPLIT_FROM="" STAGE="R" STATUS="A" TYPE="INTERVENTION" VERSION_NO="2.0">........

Key components

linked data

The “age of pointing at things“- h/t Tom Coates, 2005: ttp://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2005/04/the_age_of_pointatthings/

The realization [behind creation of the [Internet] was, "It isn't the cables, it is the computers which are interesting".

[World Wide Web] the realization was "It isn't the computers, but the documents which are interesting". Now you could browse around a sea of documents without having to worry about which computer they were stored on.

Now, people are making another mental move. There is realization now, "It's not the documents, it is the things they are about which are important”.

-Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web

“The problem is not information overload. It‘s filter failure.“

- Clay Shirky

nimble

Nimble

Structured and linked data can help make content “nimble”

Nimble content can:

• Travel Freely• Retain Context Meaning• Create New Products

- R. Lovinger, Razorfishnimble.razorfish.com

Current web = Web of documents

Docs are linked not data (things) in docs

Machines aren‘t good at reading web pages and documents

Data on the web is meant for human consumption

Machines need the data to be structured Then, information can be more easily shared

within and across datasets and web pages Interfaces and APIs can be built to allow better

(and programmatic) access The article could evolve into an interface onto

a “web of data“

Reviews, studies, references

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Graphs of knowledge

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Start anywhere, go anywhere

Page furniture

Chart: Linn Brandt/DECIDE Project

Access points

Access points

LinkedLifeData.com

Linked datasets

Linked Open Data

the “dish“

http://searchinsights.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/the-wheel-of-hunger/

h/t Silver Oliver

Scalable considered linkingh/t Silver Oliver

PICO* = the “dish“

Population InterventionComparisonOutcome

* (some also add another C for condition and/or an S for setting or context)

What‘s your “dish“?

interface

interfacefriendly front endsappssmart searchbetter filters=potential value

Question

Do articles still fulfill their purpose?

Future of article is not about the article at all.

It‘s about:CONTENT & DELIVERY

***NIMBLE***

Think: record company executives once upon a time debating the “future

of the album“...

“Operating system” for science?

“Scientific bundles of knowledge must be structured and accessible by API, with the connections among those bundles and appropriate utility metrics being what connects and prioritizes scientists.”

- Marcio von Muhlen

Source: http://tagteam.harvard.edu/hub_feeds/928/feed_items/41072

CDSR CRS/CENTRAL

DARE

HTAs

CMR

DrugBank

UMLS

Diseasome

SymptomOntology etc.

Evidence-based healthcare OS

Future of the article?

Should really be: Future of content and delivery Interface to web of data Filter API Code Dynamic or “living“ question or series of questions Editors become curators (?) Things we have yet to think of or can‘t imagine

yet...

How did I do?

content knowledge nimble delivery graph PICO question quote

Thank you