The Educational Value of Truly Interactive Science Publishing

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“Interactive Scientific Publishing (ISP) has been developed by the Optical Society of America with support from the National Library of Medicine at NIH. It allows authors to electronically publish papers which are linked to the referenced 2D and 3D original image datasets. These image datasets can then be viewed and analyzed interactively by the reader. ISP provides the software for authors to assemble and link their source data to their publication. But more important is that it provides readers with image viewing and analysis tools. The goal of ISP is to improve learning and understanding of the presented information. This paper describes ISP and its effect on learning and understanding. ISP was shown to have enough educational value that readers were willing to invest in the required set–up and learning phases. The social aspects of data sharing and the enlarged review process may be the hardest obstacles to overcome.”

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0018.201

Hybrid Review: Taking SoTL Beyond Traditional Peer Review for Journal Publication

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“Developments in emergent technology offer innovative solutions for facilitating a hybrid review process; we examine a unique combination of private–peer and open–public review uniquely relevant for disseminating the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) through development of the Journal of Instructional Research (JIR). An analysis of the hybrid review process (combining the strengths of traditional peer review with an integrative public review process) revealed substantial reviewer participation that contributed to a well–rounded, engaged review process. Public review feedback constructively addressed the value and relevance of the implications, methodology, content and written quality of the manuscripts; an additional layer of private, peer review further refined the manuscripts to determine suitability for publication. This, in turn, created a space where refinement of content, structure, and design of SoTL research was achieved through an interactive process of scholarly inquiry and dialogue.”

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0018.202

Faire parler les données des bibliothèques : du Big Data à la visualisation de données

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“Cette étude se penche sur les enjeux de la réutilisation des données des bibliothèques à l’ère du Big Data. En ce qui concerne la production de connaissances sur le monde des bibliothèques et de l’information, les technologies d’analyse du Big Data, contrairement à ce que prétendent les discours qui peuvent parfois les accompagner, ne réduisent pas les biais et présupposés inhérents aux statistiques traditionnelles. Cependant, la visualisation de données, telle que revue et critiquée par les Humanités Numériques, pourrait permettre de prendre en compte d’une manière beaucoup plus centrale la nature fondamentalement politique des bibliothèques. Regardant le pilotage des établissements documentaires, certains auteurs appellent à fonder les décisions non sur les données et chiffres mais sur l’analyse de données. De fait, l’ouverture de la profession de bibliothécaire sur la science des données pourrait être un bon moyen de faire évoluer les méthodes d’évaluation et de pilotage. La visualisation est un moyen ludique d’apprendre l’analyse de donnée et permet de communiquer efficacement sur l’activité de l’établissement. En dernier lieu, les discours actuels accompagnant l’ère du numérique font l’apologie d’un accès individualisé et fragmenté à l’information qui permettrait de se passer des biais inhérents à toute classification universelle. Néanmoins, ces biais sont transposé dans les algorithmes de recherche de l’information. Dès lors, il devient nécessaire de penser un système de navigation qui exprime ce biais et le soumette davantage à une discussion : transformer un catalogue de bibliothèque en data game pourrait être une solution pour exprimer de manière ludique la métaphore sous-jacente à toute organisation des connaissances.”

URL : https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/lapotre2014.pdf

URL alternative : http://www.enssib.fr/bibliotheque-numerique/notices/65117-faire-parler-les-donnees-des-bibliotheques-du-big-data-a-la-visualisation-de-donnees

What Drives Academic Data Sharing?

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“Despite widespread support from policy makers, funding agencies, and scientific journals, academic researchers rarely make their research data available to others. At the same time, data sharing in research is attributed a vast potential for scientific progress. It allows the reproducibility of study results and the reuse of old data for new research questions. Based on a systematic review of 98 scholarly papers and an empirical survey among 603 secondary data users, we develop a conceptual framework that explains the process of data sharing from the primary researcher’s point of view. We show that this process can be divided into six descriptive categories: Data donor, research organization, research community, norms, data infrastructure, and data recipients. Drawing from our findings, we discuss theoretical implications regarding knowledge creation and dissemination as well as research policy measures to foster academic collaboration. We conclude that research data cannot be regarded as knowledge commons, but research policies that better incentivise data sharing are needed to improve the quality of research results and foster scientific progress.”

URL : What Drives Academic Data Sharing?

DOI :10.1371/journal.pone.0118053