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Semantic Societies Uncovering new research paths Engaging members better Charlie Rapple, TBI Communications SSP Annual Meeting 2010 Society for Scholarly Publishing

Semantic societies: uncovering new research paths, engaging members better

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Societies' community role is threatened by the development of substitute internet communities. Smart use of technology to add new value is one way to strengthen the position of the Society at the centre of its discipline. This paper reports on a collaborative pilot study that is building a transatlantic community around two societies' journals, and explores the challenges inherent in deploying semantic technologies in the scholarly society sector.

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Semantic SocietiesUncovering new research pathsEngaging members better

Charlie Rapple, TBI Communications

SSP Annual Meeting 2010

Society for Scholarly Publishing

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What we will cover

The contextThe visionThe experimentThe realityThe futureThe vision (redux)

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Context: technology and publishing

Online publishing ≠ digital publishingPrint + PDF ≠ digitalPDF = 0Print + PDF = print

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Context: hidden knowledge

“It is quite depressive to think that we are spending millions in grants for people to perform experiments, produce new knowledge, hide this knowledge in a often badly written text and then spend some more millions trying to second guess what the authors really did and found”

Amos Bairoch, Nature Precedings, via Biochemical Journal

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Waiting for innovation to go away

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Context: societies and publishing

Threats from all sidesBudget cuts, big deals, open accessChanging user behaviourAutonomous professional networks

But retain unique / vital role Mission-driven publishingFunding and dissemination of research

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The Vision

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Speeding up scientific progress

What semantic data analysis can add to research information

How societies could add value to content strengthen role in communitymeet emerging needs of members

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The Experiment

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Breathing Space

The first semantic web collaboration between scholarly societies

Exploring the value of compiling and mining a critical mass of data within a discipline ERS and ATS together account for 30% of citations within respiratory medicine

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Why

To find out whether semantic web technologies are useful in practice

To better support teaching, research and learning by exploring new ways of finding research material

To position societies as leaders in respiratory research by providing more effective, interesting tools

To help authors achieve higher visibility

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How

Publishing Technology’s pub2web platform

Semantic content storage and analysis (data mining)

Interconnecting content based on citations, keyword density and author relationships

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Where

http://respiratory.publishingtechnology.com

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What: semantic browsing

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What: concept homepages

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What: concept tagclouds

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What: faceted search

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What: enhanced article homepage

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What: author homepage

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Author profiles

http://www.researchprofiles.collexis.com/ohsuV3/expert.asp?n=Dorsa%2C+Daniel+M&u_id=428

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The Reality

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Challenges

Finding an altruistic technology partner!Acquiring dataHerding catsDefining parameters for data miningMaking the horse drinkFinding convincing examples

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The Future

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Lessons learned

Free = low priority

Data mining = inexact; science = exact

Context = blinkers

Examples are key to explanation

Advocates are key to spreading the word

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Future developments

Phase IContinue roll out to widen usageUsage analysisQualitative feedback / research

Phase IIAdd more journals?Develop additional functionality around authors?Provide curation tools to editors?

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The Vision (Redux)

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Thank you

Charlie RappleTBI [email protected]

SSP Annual Meeting 2010