Curation for OKM and information literacy (IL) is beneficial for PhD studentsCase study of Scoop it Oct 2015, Tallin, Estonia

GC FaureMD, PhDProf ImmunologyUniversité Lorraine

1975 (Once upon a time…)2015 nihil novi sub sole?

• « Je suis la référence » sic

• GOOGLE: notrefamille.com

• Wikipedia?

Information literacy in higher education:• Society 2020 requires– Multi-skilled learners– Able to think critically– Pose and solve problems– Become independent and life long learners

Postgraduate and PhD studentsTopic, Project, Execution, Results, Sharing

OCDE CapacitiesUnesco report

Recognize needs of information!!Localize information!Select informationOrganize information….Conceptualize and present effctively

Ensuring that (PhD) students acquire competences in

• Knowing how to navigate the web• Finding quality ressources• Formulating questions• Accessing potential sources• Evaluating information for accuracy and

quality• Organizing information• Using information « to do something »

PhDsPassive vs active learningTheir Challenge is « reading and writing »

using published scientific literatureFinding, reading, understandingSynthetizingWriting in published journalsCommunicating with laypeople, journalists, other scientists… SharingBegin life long learning!

KM : Knowledge management

• Surfing the information wave or tsunami• In an overload context

• Keeping abreast of information• For research, teaching, science

watching…Published papers, Books, JournalsExponential growth+ Grey literature: since the 90’s++ Internet

OKM: OPEN Knowledge ManagementInternetSo much information, it becomes grey

And the OPEN RevolutionOPEN Access (Gold or Green)

an hindrance or an opportunity…

Recent Evolutions and ConcernsINFOBESITY• Too much information is killing information... • and knowledge

– Surinformation, Pollution informationnelle,– Harcèlement textuel

• Networking– From individuals and communities of interest – To (social) networks

– Doubling time of information on the web?

CURATION for knowledge managementWhat is curation?

– A recent concept– Many tools

• Scoop.it Vs other tools • Experiences with Scoop.it in immunology• Other experiences for

– Other fields of Research, – Science mediation– Information literacy

Curation is... gold panningand goldsmithing or• Selection

– Editorialisation– Agregation, distillation,

• Commenting– Elevation, mashup

• Diffusion– Sharing

From Libfocus

Aggregation - compiling the most relevant information about a particular topic into a single location (this is the type of curation most people think of)Distillation - simplifying information down to the key or essential ideasElevation - identifying a larger trend or 'the bigger picture' from individual posts, articles or detailsMash ups - merging and remixing existing content to create new ideas or perspectivesChronology - organising information in a timeline to show the evolution of a subject, topic or idea

Curation tools (32)

• Google news• Pearltrees, Paper.li, Pinterest, TumblR,

Storify, Sharezy, Flipboard... • Scoop.it

– A french and californian start-up– Various plans (Individual, Educational,

Business)– Growing 2014: >1,5M curators, >75M posts,

150M Visitors, 3K companies» Crawling tool +++

Topics coveredwith colleagues from Portugal, Spain, France... • Basic Science, Biotechnologies, BioTherapies

– Immunology (>5,2K scoops, >40K visitors, >49,6K views)

– From Flow Cytometry to Cytomics (>3.2K scoops, >6K visitors, >13K views)

– Immunology and Biotherapies (5K scoops, 4K visitors, >9K views)

– Mucosal Immunity (2,3K sc, 1.9K vis, 4,2K views)• Immuno-Pathology

– Autoimmunity, (1.9K sc, 1.1K vis, 3,5K views)– Allergy, (1.6K sc, 1.2K vis, 2.5K views)– Neuroimmunology (1K, 5.5, 1.7)...

• History of immunology (0,3sc, 0,3vis, 900 views)

Other Immunology projects using Scoop.it• Industry Consultant

– K Maggon Immunotherapies Biotherapies 10 topics

• Teachers, researchers and students– MdC Nancy Immune monitoring– RC NY USA Diabetes– JL USA Complement and PNH 10 topics– AC Spain Immune diagnosis– XW China ENT– MH Nancy allergie alimentaire– Plus students

» Vs resources using other curation tools: Pinterest, TumblR, PaperLi, Flipboard

Other Life Sciences active topics

• Chris Upton + Helpers U.Victoria – Virology and bioinformatics 77K– Next Generation sequencing

• C.Jacquet, IPM Lab Toulouse 56K– Plants immunity, pathogens...

• D Blanchard 4.4K– Biotech Pharma innovation

• Institut Pasteur de Tunis 17K• Journées Internationales Biologie 19K

Skills which can be acquired through Curation1 Cognitive Load management2 Design mindset and sensemaking3 Novel and adaptive thinking and New media literacy 4 Transdisciplinarity and Cross cultural competency5 Social Intelligence and Virtual collaboration From Nancy White: Developping future workskills through content curation. Innovation in Education 2012

Curation possibilitieswith Scoop.it • Two major applications

– Keeping abreast of information – either published or grey

– Building of Content hubs (personal or common)– Keeping up to date

» Curation is – Commenting, taging– Sending through e-mail, – Sharing through tweets, linkedin, pinterest, tumblr, – Sending Newsletters

» Another kind of social network

Enrichment and Access

Building of content hubs (/individual or group curation)•Crawling of internet through keywords +++

• Sources: Journals, Websites, Blogs, Social networks, etc

•Curating when browsing (Use of applet)•Reloading of scoops from other members of network, and followed topics•Creation of scoops + publishing through Slideshare...ACCESS

• Finding again with a dedicated search engine

Curation is for knowledge management of ...

• Teachers– Thought leadership and life long learning

» Trainees: – Basic training and life long learning

• Collectivities– Scientific Society, Academy– Interest Network: ie GEIL, Coultry Club– Research Labs, Units,

– Companies, with UtoB (University to Business) opportunities?

Curating with Scoop it Share ideas that matters

• A day to day duty for scientists and researchers like « Walking the dog »

• Scoop it: a virtual space in the cloud– to collect and keep highly selected

informations • As well as information scooped

by other curators in your community

– to find them when required• Contents Hubs

Curation with • Strengths: Finding information

• Crawling engine, • And intervention of human specialist for selection, comments,

• Weaknesses• Human dependency• Ignorance of the capabilities of curation for research

• Opportunities: Sharing for learning, teaching• a specialized webmagazine• a specialized hub content

• Threats: • Evolution of curation techniques• Too many resources

Apollo Research Institute Future Workskills 2020 study: Skills a student employs  to successfully curate information include:

curiosity, media literacy, ability to make connections across disciplines, information literacy, the ability to evaluate and understand perspective, synthesize and evaluate information,and a good dose of self-direction.

HONJO Tang Prize 2015To pursue a career in scientific research, the 6Cs : Curiosity, courage, challenges, continuation, concentration and confidenceCuriosity is the most important

Global and individual concerns

• Researcher profile

• Learn how to read and write!

• Vs basic • profile

• Lack of curiosity?

• Lack of sharing desire

• Individualism

Summary

• Probably the best curation tool on the web for serious information– Crawling engine and enrichment capacities

• A virtual dedicated scientific news webmagazine and content Hub

• easy to browse, and attractive– For information literacy and curiosity– The Search engine inside is a major asset

• The human factor of curation is the added value compared to robots (SEO): selection, editorialism

• And also the limit, requiring everyday work