Curation of Scientific, Technical and Societal contents on Street and Public Lighting. presented on the occasion of IDL2022, actualized from previous analysis of this Content Hub.

1. LeReV/LiSaC
Curation of Scientific, Technical and
Societal Contents
1/14 events in France
1/5 events in Grand-Est
1/? (500) events in the
world
2022

2. LeReV/LiSaC: Lumières en Rues et en Villes
Lights in Streets and Cities.
Curation of Scientific, Technical and Societal Contents
CMJ Faure GC Faure
MD, PhD
Prof Immunology
Université Lorraine

3. Why?
• Imagerie cellulaire en
immunofluorescence et en
cytométrie
• IUIS/ICSU
• Health and Well-being in urban
environment

4. From Year of Light to IDL
• Year of Light
• Année de la Lumière
• Lumière et Société
• http://www.lumiere-
societe.fr/pages/ressources/site
s-web/lumieres-en-rues-et-en-
villes.html
• International Day of Light
May, 16 2017, 2018,2019,
2020, 2021, 2022

5. Background
• Content Curation
• in Immunology and related fields for teaching and
learning
• In e-reputation and place branding (Nancy, Wuhan,
Kunming…)
• for >5 years
• #10 slideshare educational PPTs
• Athens Balkan Light 2015
• St Malo ECIL 2017
• Bologna (virtual) ENLIGHTENMe 2021

6. Street Lighting Industry
viewed by lay-people
An industrial « niche » with a
global impact
Some major companies (Philips, Thorn,
Schreder, CREE… GHM-Eclatec, Ragni…)
and many ..
Technological revolutions (LED, solar…)
More and more societal and environmental
concerns
Worldwide globalization
Smart cities

7. Knowledge management (KM) and
Information literacy (IL) in working environment
viewed by information specialists
Before
Formal Communication on paper: Books,
Scientific journals, specialty journals
Informal communication: catalogs,
exhibitions,
Now
Internet
Company Websites
Social Networks (Twitter, Facebook,
Linkedin…)

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

9. Curation tools (>50)
• Google news
• Pearltrees, Paper.li, Pinterest, TumblR, Storify,
Sharezy, Flipboard...
• Scoop.it
– A french and californian start-up
– Various plans (Individual, Educational, Business)
» Crawling tool +++
» Format, capabilities of enrichment
searching and sharing +++

10. Content Hubs
of Lighting information
open >5 years ago, curated everyday since
• Lighting, Innovation, Design
• http://www.scoop.it/t/lighting-innovation-design
• >11,2K scoops, >10,8K vis., >22,9K views
• Lighting in Art
• http://www.scoop.it/t/lighting-in-art
• >1,5K scoops, >2,6K vis., >5,5K views
• Lighting in History
• http://www.scoop.it/t/lighting-in-history
• >1,5K scoops, >1,2K vis., >2,6K views

11. LIGHTING
in History
Antioch 450AD
Gas lights (75s)
From London 1807 to Berlin 2012
Edison (1879)
Lightbulbs (1901)
LEDs (from 1907 to futures…

12. « Lampas was torchs »
Oil, from Greece to Florence 18th
Candles
Gas (100) London 1807, Liverpool,
Baltimore, Berlin
Electricity
Edison (75) Tesla (25)

13. Lighting in Art
Paintings
Camille Pissaro 1897
Giacomo Balla 1909
Lighting installations
Luminale… Festival of Lights!

14. Lighting in Art
• Paintings 1897
• Pissaro
• Photography
• More and more >150
• S Neskovska
• M Wakui
• Emmanuel Henry

15. Lighting for art
• Installations
• Lumière Festivals
• Lyon
• Baltimore
• London
• Singapore

16. Lighting innovation Design
Technical watch
• LEDs
• Implementation in cities everywhere
• Solar lighting
• Implementation in developing
countries
• Africa
• Smart cities

17. LEDs
• 6% of posts (>3200)
• Technically established… implementation
ongoing
• Numerous providers
• China, India, Europe, UK
• Savings!,
• Ecology, ….Smart city,
• Already socially discussed (light pollution… )

18. Solar Lighting
• 8% of posts (>1100)
• Numerous global providers
• China, India, France
• Implementation : Africa, Asia,
Europe
• … solar highways?

19. Smart Cities
• 11% of posts (>1550)
• Explosion of resources, discussions
and proposals
• India, New Zealand, France, USA
• Pune, Wakatane, Dijon, San Diego,
Los Angeles…
• From lamp-posts to big data: smart
lighting everywhere

20. LIGHTING Innovation Design
Societal Watch
• Costs of lighting (4%)
• Limiting light and safety concerns
• Light pollution (4%)
• Ecology (moose, bats, turtles,
birds…, pollinisation)

21. Globalisation: Urban planet
• Europe:
• France >300, UK >300, Germany >100
• Americas:
• USA >200
• Asia:
• China >250, India >300
• Africa (>350): solar light…
• South Africa

22. Africa
https://www.slideshare.net/gcfaure/alsen
y-dia-lighting-in-africa
Lighting in Africa was a subtopic offered to Alseny Dia and
Ngalla Sene for their VSOC Master.
Almost 300 posts on this topic covering many countries and
focusing on diverse subjects:
Access to lighting and energy, for security reasons and
teaching facilities.
Financing benefits from foreign countries and sponsors
(AKON).
Maintaining and vandalism remain a concern.
OFF GRID and solar solutions (FONROCHE) dominate
but Smart City projects also emerge.

23. Safety concerns (3%)
• In Europe, UK mainly some years
ago
• In Africa and developing countries

24. Economy of lighting
• Costs of replacement vs Economies
on energy expenses?
• Figures of energy savings: are they
sound?
• LEDs, Solar…
• Financing
• 24hrs Economy

25. Light Pollution
• « Dark Sky » actions
• NASA images, IAU
• Ecology:
• bats, turtles, insects, birds…
• plants
• Human health:
• breast and prostate cancer?
• Sleeping disorders
• https://www.enlightenme-project.eu/news/enlightenme-
international-conference-a-great-success

26. Companies >400
Global: Philips, Signify, Thorn, Zumtobel,
Schreder, Osram, Tridonic
France: Fonroche, GHM/Eclatec et GHM/Eclatec
Bv (Facebook, Les Echos, Woodhouse), Sunny-
d, Ragni
UK:Urban Control
USA:GE Lighting, Ameresco,
India:…
China:…
Africa: Afristar

27. Resources
• Journals
• Lux Magazine, The Lighting journal, Luce,
Luci…
• Meetings and congresses
• PLDC
• Lighting Days
• Light + Building..
• Web resources
• Lighting.eu (p72 of 2018 Directory)

28. Curation is for
Open KM and IL
• Teachers, Researchers, Professionals, Influencers
– Thought leadership and life long learning
– Trainees: Basic training and life long learning
• Collectivities
– Scientific Society, Academies
– Interest Networks
– Research Labs, Units,
– Companies, with UtoB (University to Business)
opportunities?

29. Messages on curation of
information
For laypeople: access to informed and
curated resources
For researchers and teachers:
collection of technical and societal
resources and data
For students: access to selected
resources for learning
For marketing: « thought » leadership

30. Acknowledgments
• Université Lorraine and CREM
• G Decugis and M Rougier from Scoop.it
• For fruitful discussions
• Other « Light » scoopiters : ecoInsight, Dean Ernst, Cindy
Foster Warthen
• « Light » Facebook friends: Leni Schwendinger, Light Zoom
Lumière, Luminapolis, Zorica Matic
• And obviously John Dudley, Costel Subran, Lionel Brunet
• For sharing information
• LIGHTING curated resources were labellized by
« Comité National Lumière 2015» and belonged to
« Lumière et Société » project since 2017