Presentation given at Session 4 Best Practice "Information literacy Instruction" Tuesday October 20, 2015 at the 3rd European Conference on Information Literacy

1. Curation for OKM and information literacy
(IL) is beneficial for PhD students
Case study of Scoop it Oct 2015, Tallin, Estonia
GC Faure
MD, PhD
Prof Immunology
Université Lorraine

2. 1975 (Once upon a time…)
2015 nihil novi sub sole?
• « Je suis la
référence » sic
• GOOGLE:
notrefamille.com
• Wikipedia?

3. Information literacy in higher
education:
• Society 2020 requires
– Multi-skilled learners
– Able to think critically
– Pose and solve problems
– Become independent and life long learners
 Postgraduate and PhD students
Topic, Project, Execution, Results, Sharing

4. OCDE Capacities
Unesco report
Recognize needs of information!!
Localize information!
Select information
Organize information
….
Conceptualize and present effctively

5. Ensuring that (PhD) students
acquire competences in
• Knowing how to navigate the web
• Finding quality ressources
• Formulating questions
• Accessing potential sources
• Evaluating information for accuracy and
quality
• Organizing information
• Using information « to do something »

6. PhDs
Passive vs active learning
Their Challenge is
« reading and writing »
using published scientific literature
Finding, reading, understanding
Synthetizing
Writing in published journals
Communicating with laypeople, journalists, other
scientists… Sharing
Begin life long learning!

7. KM :
Knowledge management
• Surfing the information wave or
tsunami
• In an overload context
• Keeping abreast of information
• For research, teaching, science
watching…
Published papers, Books, Journals
Exponential growth
+ Grey literature: since the 90’s
++ Internet

8. OKM:
OPEN Knowledge Management
Internet
So much information,
it becomes grey
And the OPEN Revolution
OPEN Access (Gold or Green)
an hindrance
or an opportunity…

9. Recent Evolutions and Concerns
INFOBESITY
• Too much information is killing information...
• and knowledge
– Surinformation, Pollution informationnelle,
– Harcèlement textuel
• Networking
– From individuals and communities of interest
– To (social) networks
– Doubling time of information on the web?

10. CURATION for knowledge
management
What is curation?
– A recent concept
– Many tools
• Scoop.it Vs other tools
• Experiences with Scoop.it in immunology
• Other experiences for
– Other fields of Research,
– Science mediation
– Information literacy

11. Curation is... gold panning
and goldsmithing or
• Selection
– Editorialisation
– Agregation, distillation,
• Commenting
– Elevation, mashup
• Diffusion
– Sharing

12. From Libfocus
Aggregation - compiling the most relevant information
about a particular topic into a single location (this is the
type of curation most people think of)
Distillation - simplifying information down to the key or
essential ideas
Elevation - identifying a larger trend or 'the bigger picture'
from individual posts, articles or details
Mash ups - merging and remixing existing content to
create new ideas or perspectives
Chronology - organising information in a timeline to show
the evolution of a subject, topic or idea

13. Curation tools (32)
• Google news
• Pearltrees, Paper.li, Pinterest, TumblR,
Storify, Sharezy, Flipboard...
• Scoop.it
– A french and californian start-up
– Various plans (Individual, Educational, Business)
– Growing 2014: >1,5M curators, >75M posts, 150M
Visitors, 3K companies
» Crawling tool +++

14. Topics covered
with colleagues from Portugal, Spain, France...
• Basic Science, Biotechnologies, BioTherapies
– Immunology (>5,2K scoops, >40K visitors, >49,6K
views)
– From Flow Cytometry to Cytomics (>3.2K scoops, >6K
visitors, >13K views)
– Immunology and Biotherapies (5K scoops, 4K visitors,
>9K views)
– Mucosal Immunity (2,3K sc, 1.9K vis, 4,2K views)
• Immuno-Pathology
– Autoimmunity, (1.9K sc, 1.1K vis, 3,5K views)
– Allergy, (1.6K sc, 1.2K vis, 2.5K views)
– Neuroimmunology (1K, 5.5, 1.7)...
• History of immunology (0,3sc, 0,3vis, 900 views)

15. Other Immunology projects
using Scoop.it
• Industry Consultant
– K Maggon Immunotherapies
Biotherapies 10 topics
• Teachers, researchers and students
– MdC Nancy Immune monitoring
– RC NY USA Diabetes
– JL USA Complement and PNH 10 topics
– AC Spain Immune diagnosis
– XW China ENT
– MH Nancy allergie alimentaire
– Plus students
» Vs resources using other curation tools:
Pinterest, TumblR, PaperLi, Flipboard

16. Other Life Sciences active
topics
• Chris Upton + Helpers U.Victoria
– Virology and bioinformatics 77K
– Next Generation sequencing
• C.Jacquet, IPM Lab Toulouse 56K
– Plants immunity, pathogens...
• D Blanchard 4.4K
– Biotech Pharma innovation
• Institut Pasteur de Tunis 17K
• Journées Internationales Biologie 19K

17. Skills which can be acquired
through Curation
1 Cognitive Load management
2 Design mindset and sensemaking
3 Novel and adaptive thinking and
New media literacy
4 Transdisciplinarity and Cross
cultural competency
5 Social Intelligence and Virtual
collaboration
From Nancy White: Developping future workskills through content curation. Innovation in Education
2012

18. Curation possibilities
with Scoop.it
• Two major applications
– Keeping abreast of information
– either published or grey
– Building of Content hubs (personal or common)
– Keeping up to date
» Curation is
– Commenting, taging
– Sending through e-mail,
– Sharing through tweets, linkedin, pinterest, tumblr,
– Sending Newsletters
» Another kind of social network

19. Enrichment
and Access
Building of content hubs (/individual or group
curation)
•Crawling of internet through keywords +++
• Sources: Journals, Websites, Blogs, Social
networks, etc
•Curating when browsing (Use of applet)
•Reloading of scoops from other members of network,
and followed topics
•Creation of scoops + publishing through Slideshare...
ACCESS
• Finding again with a dedicated search engine

20. Curation is for
knowledge management of ...
• Teachers
– Thought leadership and life long learning
» Trainees:
– Basic training and life long learning
• Collectivities
– Scientific Society, Academy
– Interest Network: ie GEIL, Coultry Club
– Research Labs, Units,
– Companies, with UtoB (University to Business)
opportunities?

21. Curating with Scoop it
Share ideas that matters
• A day to day duty for scientists and
researchers like « Walking the dog »
• Scoop it: a virtual space in the cloud
– to collect and keep highly selected
informations
• As well as information scooped
by other curators in your
community
– to find them when required
• Contents Hubs

22. Curation with
• Strengths: Finding information
• Crawling engine,
• And intervention of human specialist for selection, comments,
• Weaknesses
• Human dependency
• Ignorance of the capabilities of curation for research
• Opportunities: Sharing for learning, teaching
• a specialized webmagazine
• a specialized hub content
• Threats:
• Evolution of curation techniques
• Too many resources

23. Apollo Research Institute Future Workskills 2020 study:
Skills a student employs to successfully curate information
include:
curiosity,
media literacy,
ability to make connections across disciplines,
information literacy,
the ability to evaluate and understand
perspective,
synthesize and evaluate information,
and a good dose of self-direction.

24. HONJO Tang Prize 2015
To pursue a career in scientific research,
the 6Cs : Curiosity, courage, challenges,
continuation, concentration and
confidence
Curiosity is the most important

25. Global and individual concerns
• Researcher profile
• Learn how to
read and write!
• Vs basic
• profile
• Lack of
curiosity?
• Lack of sharing
desire
• Individualism

26. Summary
• Probably the best curation tool on the web for
serious information
– Crawling engine and enrichment capacities
• A virtual dedicated scientific news
webmagazine and content Hub
• easy to browse, and attractive
– For information literacy and curiosity
– The Search engine inside is a major asset
• The human factor of curation is the added
value compared to robots (SEO): selection,
editorialism
• And also the limit, requiring everyday work