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G13 International Conference on Grey Literature


  • G13 International Conference on Grey Literature

    Science-Forums.net
    Communities for Science Colleagues


    Tweet Comments or Questions:
    @L_Vowell
    @LynnJD
    #GL13ScienceForums
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    Lance Vowell
    Program Manager
    Contractor to DOE/OSTI
    Information International Associates (IIa)

    Lynn Davis
    Program Liaison, MLS
    DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)
  • G13 International Conference on Grey Literature

    Motivation/Justification


    Hypothesis that Web 2.0 technologies can promote:
       • Collaboration
       • Information exchange
       • Global networking among scientists (peer-to-peer)
       • Scientific discovery and innovation

    BACKGROUND
  • G13 International Conference on Grey Literature

    Motivation/Justification (cont'd)


    We believed that scientific researchers would want to collaborate in a different manner than that provided by the typical social network such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Second Life or Twitter

    We also wanted the system to support a broad range of both published and grey information types such as technical reports, theses, research notes, research papers in progress

    BACKGROUND
  • G13 International Conference on Grey Literature

    Primary Goal


    Speed the diffusion of scientific knowledge by enabling improved web 2.0 communications among scientific and research communities.
       • Ease implementation of peer-to-peer communications
       • Enable informal content creation of both comments and discussion
       • Create formal published and grey literature
       • Provide mechanisms to access, import, share, view, and cite other published and grey literature

    PHASE I
  • G13 International Conference on Grey Literature

    Other Potential Benefits


       • Facilitate retrieval of scientific and technical information by librarians and other information professionals
       • Apply concept to traditional government research agencies, universities, pharmaceutical companies, and all organizations involved in scientific research

    PHASE I
  • G13 International Conference on Grey Literature

    User/Subject Matter Expert Input Sought


       • Interviewed hand-selected Focus Group
       • Identified larger group to provide periodic feedback

    PHASE I
  • G13 International Conference on Grey Literature

    Major Focus Areas


    During 3 years of research:
       • Determined high-level requirements for system
           • Simplicity and ease of use
           • Information security
       • Conducted survey of commercial off-the-shelf/open source systems
       • Produced prototype for evaluation

    PHASE I
  • G13 International Conference on Grey Literature

    Prototype Development


       • Noted considerable change in landscape of peer-to-peer collaboration between Phase I and Phase II surveys
       • Determined significant number of shareware or open source products were highly customizable and would meet many of the project requirements out-of-the-box

    PHASE II
  • G13 International Conference on Grey Literature

    Technology


       • Platform: Considered Ning, Drupal, Mambo, Joomla!, Taverna and SupportMaster; Drupal was chosen

    PHASE II
  • G13 International Conference on Grey Literature

    Technology (cont'd.)


       • Web-based content management system: Research and development led to building a system to enable self-forming groups, where researchers can create useful web-based communities around scientific topics of interest to those groups

    PHASE II
  • G13 International Conference on Grey Literature

    Technology (cont'd.)


       • Open Access Standards: Chosen to import documents to the Library since a primary function of the system is a repository (library) for scientific research information

    PHASE II
  • G13 International Conference on Grey Literature

    Beta



       •"Science-Forums.net": The name given the website and system by the Project Team

    PHASE II
  • G13 International Conference on Grey Literature

    Be sure to Tweet Comments or Questions:


    @L_Vowell
    @LynnJD
    #GL13ScienceForums
    #GL13conf

  • G13 International Conference on Grey Literature

    Science-Forums.net (beta) website


  • G13 International Conference on Grey Literature

    Science-Forums.net (beta) website

  • G13 International Conference on Grey Literature

    Science-Forums.net (beta) website

  • G13 International Conference on Grey Literature

    Science-Forums.net (beta) website

  • G13 International Conference on Grey Literature

    Science-Forums.net (beta) website

  • G13 International Conference on Grey Literature

    Science-Forums.net (beta) website

  • G13 International Conference on Grey Literature

    Science-Forums.net
    Communities for Science Colleagues


    Tweet Comments or Questions:
    @L_Vowell
    @LynnJD
    #GL13ScienceForums
    #GL13conf

    Lance Vowell
    Program Manager
    Contractor to DOE/OSTI
    Information International Associates (IIa)
    (865) 576-2087
    VowellL@osti.gov

    Lynn Davis
    Program Liaison, MLS
    DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)
    (865) 241-6435
    DavisL@osti.gov
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