Invited presentation at Coultry Club, club utilisateurs Beckman Coulter, France et Belgique, Paris Juin 2015

1. CURATION for OKM
Open Knowledge Management
• In Life Sciences (Flow cytometry)
• Using SCOOP.IT
Keeping abreast of scientific information in an overload
context!
A new way of learning, teaching, doing research,
mediating science
Pr GC Faure, MD, PhD
May 2015, Science&You, Nancy
June 2015, Coultry Club, Paris

2. KM: Knowledge Management
• Knowledge management
– Surfing the information wave
– Learning, Teaching, Research
– Watching... managerial professional approach
• Methods and tools to identify and capitalize knowledge
– For individuals (MDs, patients)
– For groups (Labs, Units, Companies)
• Science Watch (professionals)
• or simply curiosity (laypeople)?
• Life-long learning

3. Once upon a time..
• Keeping abreast of scientific information...
– Was using Current Contents
» Nowadays, the world has changed
"The Times They Are A-Changin'"
– Curation appeared recently on stage, on top of
SEOs (Search Engine Optimization)

4. Grey Literature
since end of 90's,
• Thesis, Reports
• Patents
• Scientific News Magazines
• Press releases
• Internet
– Websites, Blogs, Tweets..
– Social networks...RSS flux
– So much information... it becomes grey

5. Internet +
OPEN Revolution
• Scholarly publishing
– Exponential growth (Med 2 papers/mn)
– From OPEN Source softwares to OPEN Access
literature (Gold or Green)
• + Internet
» How do endusers search?: GOOGLE

6. Recent Evolutions
and Concerns
• Too much information is killing information... and
knowledge
– Surinformation, Pollution informationnelle,
– Harcèlement textuel
– Infobesity
• Networking
– From individuals and communities of interest
– To (social) networks

7. Data Curation vs
Knowledge 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..
• A recent concept
– USA 2009,
– France 2011

8. CURATION for knowledge
management
What is curation?
– Concept
– Tools
• Scoop.it! Vs other tools
• Experiences with Scoop.it in immunology
• Other experiences for
– Other fields of Research,
– Science mediation
– Information literacy

9. Curation is... gold panning
and goldsmith
• Selection
– Editorialisation
– Agregation, distillation,
• Commenting
– Elevation, mashup
• Diffusion
– Sharing

10. 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 +++

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

12. Enrichment
and Access
Building of specific databases (/individual or
group curation)
Crawling of internet through keywords
• Use of applet to download
• Creation of scoops + publishing through
Slideshare...
• Reloading of scoops from other members of
network, and followed topics
ACCESS
• Finding again with a dedicated search engine

13. Topics covered
with colleagues from SFI, Portugal, Spain, France...
• Basic Science, Biotechnologies, BioTherapies
– Immunology (5K scoops, >27K visitors, >35K
views)
– From Flow Cytometry to Cytomics (>3.2K scoops,
>5.6K visitors, >12K views)
– Immunology and Biotherapies (4.6K sc, 3.6K vis, 7.7K
views)
– Mucosal Immunity (2K sc, 1.7K vis, 3.5K views)
• Immuno-Pathology
– Autoimmunity, (1K sc, 1.7K vis, 2.8K views)
– Allergy, (1.5K sc, 1.1K vis, 2.5K views)
– Hematology (1.5sc, 1.4vis, 2.8views)
– Neuroimmunology...
• History of immunology

14. Searching information about
Flow cytometry and cytomics
• Flow Cytometry
– Google: 7.6 M results
• 500K images, 4060 actualités,
28000 videos, 324K livres
– Bing: 1.1 M, Yahoo: idem
– PubMed 159777
• 36K depuis ouverture topic
– Web of Science (WoS) 101754
• 25K depuis ouverture topic
• Cytomics
– 52.4K Google
– 189 WoS

15. Searching for cytometry on
• Social Networks
– Twitter: 2.6 M #cytometry
– Facebook: 2.3 M
• Flow cytometry network 1500 like
10-2013/3-14/5-15
– Linkedin: 1.1 M
• Flow cytometry 425 articles, 226
présentations, 19 groupes, 173
entreprises
– Flow cytometry researchers 4560

16. Scoop.it: Flow cytometry to cytomics
http://www.scoop.it/t/from-flow-cytometry-to-cytomics
The curation of major advances in the
field
3250 scoops since oct 2011 (>3years)
80/month on 130 Pages
Selection from crawling engine results,
plus applet usage , written scoops, PPTs...
Editorialisation (summary, comments), (tagging),
Sharing
Metrics 12K views, >5.7K visitors

17. From Flow Cytometry to Cytomics
Sources and supports
• Scholarly publishing: PubMed 10%
• Press releases 7%
• Blogs 40 (UCFlow 10)
• Websites: Purdue
• Social networks: Twitter 25, Facebook 10
• Books... 2011
• Videos 60: Youtube 25, Protocols, Jove 50
• Congress, Workshops, Courses, Conferences
announcements (100)
• Societies (ISAC),

18. From Flow cytometry to cytomics
University to Business
and techniques
• Companies
– Beckman Coulter (60): Cytoflex 12/11/14;
Aquios 12/06/14
– BD
– J&J: Veridex (25)
– Millipore, Amnis (25), Guava 10
– Miltenyi
– CytoF 20
• Techniques
– Flow Cytometry (1000)
– Imaging cytometry (125)
• Softwares 50 (Kaluza)

19. From Flow cytometry to Cytomics
Topics
• Immunology, Hematology, Cancer 600
• Blood 400
• CSF 7
• Lymphocyte 50, CD4 (50), Platelets
• Plants 25, Bacteria 25, algae, plancton
• Rare events CTCs 700, CECs 175,
liquid biopsy 20
• MRD (50), leukemia (50), myeloma 25

20. Other curated resources
Scoop.it: searching for cytometry
• A Correll Immunology diagnosis
• 7 autres topics de 1 à 39 vues,
dernières actualisations 2013, 2014,
2015
– Flipboard (<10abonnés, <100views)
– TumblR
– Paper.li Chromocyte
– Storify Excyte, Fluidigm

21. NANCYTOMIQUE
http://www.scoop.it/t/nancytomique
• Un topic résumant activités et
réalisations de la plate-forme mise
en place au CHU de Nancy
– Financements
– Equipements
– Publications
• Associant blog,
• et curation d'informations
relevantes au projet

22. 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?

23. 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 others scooped by
other curators in your
community
– to find them when required

24. Summary
• Probably the best curation tool on the web for
serious information
– Crawling engine and enrichment capacities
• A virtual dedicated scientific news
« journal » and database easy to browse,
and attractive
– For information literacy and curiosity
– 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

25. Acknowledgments
• GC Faure
– PUPH, Consultant
– Ex Maître-Toile du site de l'ASSIM
– Immunologiste clinicien et biologiste
• Special thanks
– To BFM Radio (L'Atelier Numérique) which
helped me discover Scoop.it one saturday
afternoon
– to Guillaume Decugis CEO of Scoop.it, and to
active scoopiteers
• No conflicts of interest declared!

26. OKCC/C3O
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