presentation at World CTCs USA 2012 on usage of scoop it in the cytomics field

1. SCOOP.IT/Cytomics
WorldCTCUSA 2012 November
• Information overload + more and
more grey literature)
But when there are 200 000 000 tweets per day or
more activity on the web in 60 seconds than you could produce
in a whole life, how to be sure your online strategy is still
efficient
• How to surf the internet information wave?
Published papers open source or not....
– Universities: Personal solutions
– Companies: Press reviewing
• University duty: helping colleagues and
students

2. Access to black and white,
and coloured literature...
• Scientific publications
– After Current Contents!
– Publishers databases (Web of
Science, ScienceDirect)
– PubMed
• Patents databases
• Company Websites

3. Grey Literature
since end of 90's,
• Thesis, Reports
• Patents
• Scientific News Magazines (GEN)
• Press releases, Press agencies
• Internet
– Websites, Blogs, Tweets?
– Social networks (Facebook,
Linkedin..)...RSS flux
– So much information... it becomes
grey

4. Connectivism
Connectivism:
a theory of learning based on the premise that
knowledge exists in the world rather than in the head
of an individual
One aspect of connectivism is the use of a network
with nodes and connections as a central metaphor
for learning. In this metaphor, a node is anything that can be
connected to another node within a network such as an
organisation: information, data, feelings, images.
Connectivism sees learning as the process of
creating connections and developing a network.

5. Curation...
.... the process of establishing and developing long term
repositories of digital assets for current and future
reference by researchers, scientists, historians, and
scholars.
Enterprises are starting to utilize digital curation to improve the
quality of information and data within their operational and
strategic processes..
• ..... is expression, action and
passion!

6. Curation tools
• Google news
• Pearltrees, Paper.li, Pinterest,
TumblR
• Scoop.it
– Individual (5 topics, 1 curator)
– Educational plan (30 topics, n
curators)
– Business
– Posts proposed by robot, pages found
by curator, posts edited by curator

7. Scoop.it .... CYTOMICS
Is Curation the answer
– Purpose: Knowledge watching
– Material: information on internet
• From « dog manure » to GOLD
digging
– Methods:among other tools
• Choice of Scoop it
– Results: one year experience
– Future: U to B (University to
Business)

8. Topic: From Flow cytometry to Cytomics
(11/12)
http://www.scoop.it/t/from-flow-cytometry-to-cytomics
• Open 10/11
– Actualized almost every day, ever
since
• Up to 200 proposals a day,
– Much Noise but 2-3 % highly specific
posts
• 1086 Posts on 44 pages
• 2400 views from 1446 Visitors,
• 17 Followers,
• 52 Reactions, Score 56

9. Subjects covered in topic
Flow cytometry to Cytomics
• Basic, Applied and Medical Science
– Flow cytometry (30%)
– Rare cells detection (CTCs 15%, CECs,
CMCs, CMMCs...) 20%
– Technical developments (40%)
• Published papers 20%, Grey literature >70%
• Patents (10%)
• University (40%) vs Companies (50%) (Press
Releases)
• Scientific Meetings (5%)
• CME/CPD (5%)

10. Immunology topics covered 10/12
by Educational plan
on behalf of ASSIM
• Immunology (open 7/11; 2109 posts, 2484
visitors; 3400 views)
• Mucosal Immunity (open 12/11; 349 posts, 208
visitors; 273 views)
• Immunology and biotherapies (DIU) (open
7/12; 888 posts; 170 vis; 250 views)
• Allergy and clinical immunology (DESC) (open
7/12, 57 posts, 37 vis, 48 views
• Autoimmunity (open Oct 2012; 63 posts; 4 vis; 8
views)

11. Other topics covered
Hematology (open 7/12, 253 posts, 88 vis, 115
views)
CME/CPD (open 11/11, 611 posts; 265 vis , 420
views)
Wuhan, Hubei (open 10/11; 614 posts; 595 vis; 1400
views)
Nancy, Lorraine (open 11/11; 613 posts, 1122
visitors, 1700 views)
TOTAL > 10 000 views in october 2012

12. Science/Knowledge watching
on Scoop it
• A day to day duty for scientists and
researchers like « Walking the dog »
• Scoop it: a virtual space
– to collect and keep highly selected
informations
• As well as others scooped by other
curators in your community
– to find them when required

13. Summary
• Probably the best curation tool on the web
• A virtual scientific news « journal » and
database easy to browse with pictures
• The « Search » function is far better than
evoked
• The human factor of curation is the added
value compared to robots (SEO Search
engine optimization)

14. UtoB (University to Business)
Benefits for a company
Information is selected according to your interets
by specialists of the field
You do not miss specific informations from
scientific or grey literature
You can post specific informations about your own
products to be visible
If somebody does it for you!All the better
Why not become a partner
if you are interested by our topics?

15. Acknowledgments
on behalf of ASSIM
• GC Faure
• M de Carvalho
• MC Béné
• Wuhan doctorate students (Chen Min,
Cai Huili, Tu Qian)
• Special thanks to Guillaume Decugis
CEO of Scoop.it