Liquid Journalshow social computing and liquid knowledge will shape and navigate information waters

What’s a LJ?

The opportunity we miss today

• It’s not easy to find scientific knowledge• Even more difficult than we think

• Growing number of contribs, search does not scale in quality

• Inefficient dissemination process• Dubious filtering and quality assessment• Narrowness

Key intuition 1 – evolving network of multifacet objects

Data

Key intuition 2 – It’s subjective!

Key intuition 3 – editing power of the community

Key intuition 4 – readers create knowledge

Key intuition 5 - Diversity

Scientific Resources for Liquid Journals

Scientific Resource Space

• Set of connected and annotated scientific resources • S=<SR, E, PR, R, A>• SR=<ID, URI, CT, CF, A>• R=<Esrc, ETarget, RType, END, A>• A=<SR or R, E, text>

Relationship types (examples)

• Temporal (e.g., next_version)• Structural (e.g., performed_on, reporting_on)• Representation (e.g., alternative_repr_of)• Authorship (contributed, edited,…)

Journal Model

Definition

• Collection of links to resources• Selected by editors (Possibly based on defined

procedures)• Offered by a publisher• May change continuously and may have issues

(snapshots)

Creating knowledge selfishly…

Approach: agile and socially-driven IT

Entity Relationship

Resource next_version

Person Alternative representation

Annotation

Journal

Agency ……

Creating and Filling a Journal

Manual selection

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Settings Universal Resource Space Management SystemMarcos, Fabio, MaurizioThis paper presents a tool and a model that allows…

Authors

Communities

FabioJuan Alejandro

Computer SciencePhysicsBiology

TagsPeer-reviewScientific publ

Sources

Time

SpringerArxiv

FiltersReadings»

Peer review, scientific publications,

Liquid journal on mashups

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Adaptive Lifecycle Management Journal on Lifecycle Management

Labels

mashups

data integration

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Rethinking peer reviewJoeExploring new ideasPeer review, scientific publications,

Liquid journal on peer review

13

Adaptive Lifecycle Management

Journal on Lifecycle Management

Journal on Data Integration Alejandro

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Settings

FiltersReadings»

Labels

mashups

data integration

[1]

[1]

Journal on Lifecycle Management

Journal on Data Integration Alejandro

Peer review, and overviewPeter, Pablo, Pedro

New frontiers in ScienceErnesto, Juan, …

Liquidpub research on evaluation metricsJoe, Matteo, Fabio,…

Evaluation of reviewers‘ behaviorJuan, Alejandro, Carlos

Authors

Communities

FabioJuan Alejandro

Computer SciencePhysicsBiology

TagsPeer-reviewScientific publ

Sources

Time

SpringerArxiv

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Automated selection

• Keyword based (basic and adv, eg source,…)• Relation-based and annotation-based• Reputation (see next)• Diversity

• (partner with ERC search computing)

• Why better than what we have today?

Consuming, creating, and “measuring” knowledgeEmpowering readers

Not just reading…

• Navigating• Sharing• Linking and annotating (selfishly)

• => measuring reputation based on sharing and inclusion in journal

• => specific reputation measures based on annotations• Implications: better metrics, community filtering, better

search and navigation

What all this means….

• Search and management of info overload• Knowledge extraction from readers/editors• Fair assessment• Efficient dissemination• Publish what I want, when I want, how I want, then deliver

it through the information pipes• Make evolution explicit• Reuse implicit review that people do anyways when

selecting content for their own purposes