Yuwei Lin presented on Research 2.0 at the University of Manchester on March 12, 2008. The presentation introduced Web 2.0 technologies like blogging, social networking, and wikis. It provided an overview of Research 2.0, which uses these technologies to enable multidisciplinary collaboration, sharing of resources, and maintaining relationships. Some challenges discussed included privacy, intellectual property rights, communication barriers, data integration issues, and developing trust and organizational structures in online research communities. Potential socio-technical solutions to these challenges were also examined.

1. Research 2.0
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Yuwei Lin
National Centre for e-Social Science
University of Manchester
http://www.ncess.ac.uk

2. In the next 20 minutes, I will...
 Introduce Web 2.0 briefly
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 Provide an overview of Research 2.0 and
some examples
 Challenges emerging in the development of
Research 2.0 and possible socio-technical
solutions

3. Web 2.0
 Blogging
 Bookmarking
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 File sharing (slides,
photos, videos, tags)
 Podcasting
 Social networking
 Co-authoring (wiki)
http://web2logo.com/

4. The World of the Web 2
 Communities
 Shared
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resources
 Connected
and networked
 Diversity
 A socio-
technical world

5. Research 2.0
 Research powered by Web 2.0 technologies
 Multidisciplinary collaboration
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 Maintaining relationships
 Sharing resources (e.g., data, tools,
publications, experiences)
 Store, Browse, Organise, Annotate, Reuse,
Recreate resources

6. Powered by the semantic web +
Folksonomy
OurSpaces.net
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7. myExperiment.org
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8. SciVee.tv
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9. VERA
http://vera.rdg.ac.uk/
- On-site data gathering
- Integrated Archaeological Database
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- VRE Portal

10. VRE-SDM
VRE for Studying Documents and Manuscripts
http://www.vre.ox.ac.uk
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11. Science 2.0 / Academia 2.0
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Nature
Publishing Elsevier B.V.
Group
DELL & COLLEXIS
(LinkedIn-like)

12. Socio-technical Issues
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13. Privacy and Confidentiality
 Social networking websites usually offer the
features of personal profiles and online logs
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of personal activities online.
 Fear of being watched and monitored and
screened.
 Socio-technical solutions: security
technology + awareness raising

14. Intellectual Property Rights
 “Release early, release often”
(mantra of the open source
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software community)? ->
Concerned over being copied
or scooped
 Contradicting commercial
interests if data is provided by
private firms
 Socio-technical solutions e.g.,
MyExperiment

15. Communication
 VRE cf. Face-to-face meetings
 Behavioural change in a Web 2.0
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environment
 Languages
 Socio-technical solutions: a better
Graphical User Interface, Ajax, and
Communication Space for improving
human-computer interaction

16. Multi-disciplinarity
 How to improve mutual understandings in a
distributed and multidisciplinary environment?
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 Different terminologies and epistemological
understandings
 Socio-technical solutions: Semantic web
(metadata and possibly ontology) + social
tagging

17. Data Integration
 Data 2.0
 Open Access
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 Data in different and incompatible formats
 Context and provenance
 Socio-technical solutions: Semantic Web
technology + a collective effort of
conforming to standard data formats and
better annotations

18. Organisational Issues
 Community building – who should be
included/trusted (domain expertise) and who
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should be responsible (facilitators)?
 Altruistic or other incentives (e.g.,
institutional support, monetary reward,
reputation)?
 Sustainability
 Socio-technical solutions: based on existing
academic community + open source models

19. Methodological Innovation
 Collaborative and distributed ways of
conducting research
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 To reuse or not to reuse? - Trust building +
Decision making + Social networking
 Mutual shaping between technology and
academia
 A paradigm shift?

20. Acknowledgement
 The NCeSS hub team, particularly Peter
Halfpenny, Rob Procter, Kenny Baird, Meik
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Poschen
 Materials from the VERA project
 Materials from the VRE-SDM project
 Various components borrowed/recycled from
the Web

21. http://blog.ncess.ac.uk
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