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Finally, I'm sorry to say thatthe paper is written in a verybland, boring manner. It isfilled with "tion" words andpassive voice. Nothing happensin this paper!

Reviewer 1, Schleyer et al..,Conceptualizing and advancing

research networking systems.

ACM TOCHI, in print

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Why the dawn of research

networking?

2006: ~3 of 12 initial CTSA proposals includedresearch networking

NCRR et al.: Where is the problem?

$12m VIVO grant award high rate of academic and industry

innovation (look around)

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Objective of the paper

review literature of multiple disciplines

stimulate foundational research on researchnetworking systems by:

proposing claims and correspondingresearch questions

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Definition

Research Networking Systems (RNS) aresystems which support individualresearchers efforts to form and maintain

optimal collaborative relationships forconducting productive research withina specific context.

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Four key areas for RNS

Foundations

Presentation

Architecture

Evaluation

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Foundations

project-, institution- and discipline-specificmotivational factors

the role of social networks

Impression formation based on informationbeyond expertise and interest

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Presentation

representing expertise in a comprehensiveand up-to-date manner

role of controlled vocabularies and

folksonomies tension between seekers need and

collaborators privacy

serendipitous discovery of collaborationopportunities

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Architecture

information aggregation and synthesis frommultiple sources

research networking system interoperability

integration with users workflow

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Evaluation

assessment of collaboration decisions

measurement of user-specific costs andbenefits

large-scale impact of RNS

longitudinal and naturalistic evaluationmethods

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Claim 2: Exploiting socialnetworks is essential for

efficient and effective researchnetworking.

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Social network questions

determining and maintaining informationabout researchers social and collaborative

networks

refining implicit relationships, such as co-authorship

applying explicit relationship identification inRNSs

avoiding colleague inflation

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Claim 5: RNS must representindividuals expertise, interests

and activities using controlledterminologies.

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Mr. Taxonomy

VS

Brother Folksonomy

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Controlled terminology questions

representing expertise and interests indomains without widely acceptedcontrolled terminologies

role of folksonomies and social tagging inexpressing content

combining controlled and user-generatedterms

effect of controlled terminologies onmotivation to use RNSs

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Claim 6: RNSs must allow usersto search and visualize

researcher profiles in multipleways.

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Picking collaborators from a stack of

CVs

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Questions about searching and

visualizing profiles

supporting different strategies for locatingcollaborators

basing strategies on information artifacts,

general profiles and/or network structures applying filters and faceted searches

minimizing user effort through search

algorithms

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Copyright 2011 The Trustees of Indiana University

Copyright 2011 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College

image courtesy Melissa Haendel 2011

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Claim 9: RNSs must integrateinformation from multiple

systems, make use of meta-information such as indexingterms to synthesize the

information and present resultsin a cohesive manner.

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Databases

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InformalsourcesSocial Media

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Information integration and synthesis

questions

interfacing with multiple sources andaggregating data

synthesizing different information artifacts

role of information attributes currency

validity

representation scheme

level of abstraction audience

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Claim 10: RNS must integrateseamlessly with an individuals

workflow and the softwareapplications that are part of it.

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Integrating seamlessly with workflow

leveraging researcher activities continuouslyto facilitate profile creation andmaintenance

developing RNS interoperability developing standards for informationexchange

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www.direct2experts.org

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Claim 11: Evaluating RNSsearch results requires metrics

which combine traditionalinformation retrieval measures

with those specific tocollaboration.

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Evaluation of RNS questions

applicability of recall and precision withouta gold standard

appropriate model(s) of collaboration and

information seeking metrics for assessing the outcome of a

search for a collaborator

long-term natural experiments

multiple measurements

impact factor v. nanopublications?

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Conclusion

moving RNSs forward requires broad butintegrated research program

CSCW, HCI, social science and others

essential to progress rapid, iterative cycle between foundational

research, design, implementation andevaluation

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