The Gatekeeper is Dead! Long live the Gatekeeper
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Slides from a talk given at the STM Innovation Seminar in London, on 3 December 2010. Similar material to "Discovery Deficit" talk given at RLUK but focussed more on STM publishers and with some new examples.
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- 1. The Gatekeeper is dead! Long live the Gatekeeper! STM Innovation Seminar 3 December 2010, London
- 2. Thankyou Clay Shirkey. Now where’s my **** filter?
- 3. Some of the people who contributed to this presentation...
- 4. @communicating Plausible Accuracy PIERRE LINDENBAUM Mummi Thorissson John Fabiana Kubke Richard Grant Pedro Beltrao Neil Saunders Steve Wilson @gnat Branwen Hide Simon Coles Dupuis Simon Philips Pawel Szcsesny Paul Miller Tony Hey Jeremy Frey Nico Adams Richard Akerman Cavalli Gabriel JonMat Todd Stephen BrennerTim O’Reilly Noel Gorelick Dave de Roure Rich Apodaca Udell ISIS LSS Group Jeremiah Faith Jean-Claude Bradley Nicholas Cole Michael Barton JOHN WILLINSKY Phil Lord Victoria Stodden Martyn Bull Stephen Friend David CrottyClay Shirky @t John Cumbers Bora Chris Leonard Grace BaynesEva Amsen Egon Willighagen Mark Borkum Brian Kelly Tony Williams Dan Hagon Maxine Clarke Andrew Milsted Zivkovic Mitch Koch Lab Michael Nielsen Martin Fenner Steph Hannon WaldropGreg Wilson Brian Matthews Leigh Dodds Bill Hooker Glyn Moody Yaroslav Nikolaev Jenny Rohn Rafael Sidi Lee Smolin Frank NormanRicardo Vidal Iain Emsley Paulo Nuin Ariel Waldmann Timo HannayKen Shankland Lorie LeJeune Jonathan Gray PT Sefton Microsoft STFC Deepak Singh Shirley Wu ISIS Computing Group Helen Berman Andrew Peter Binfield Benjamin Good Dorothea Salo Liz Lyons PLoS Kasarskis Jen Dodd Lee Dirks Peter Murray-Rust Richard Akerman Carole Goble Jon Eisen Jenny Hale Lakshmi Shastry Steve Koch NPG Ben Goldacre Chad OrzelBill Flanagan Jon Tansley Michael Eisen Matt Wood SciFoo 2008/9 Friendfeed Hope Leman Rufus Pollock Victor HenningGoogle Björn Brembs Jo BadgeAllyson Lister Lisa Green TIM HUBBARD Rebecca Goulding campers Euan Adie John Andy Powell Harry Collins Gavin Bell Jim Downing Matt Johnson Wilbanks Mike Ellis DUNCAN HULL Garret Lisi Jamie McQuay ALAN CANN Catherine Jones Andrew Farke Gavin Baker Peter Suber Sabine HossenfelderFlickr The BioGangKevin KellyPaul Walk Arfon Smith Kaitlin Thaney Richard Curry Atilla Csordas Ian Mulvany
- 7. Back to them later...
- 8. Me: A brief history
- 11. “You need to spend half a day a week in the library reading the new journals” My project supervisor, 1994 http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevecadman/486261295 CC-BY-SA
- 12. PhD 1995-99
- 17. Over the course of my PhD...
- 18. ...info retrieval went from...
- 20. ...to...
- 22. The last generation to remember “the library” http://www.flickr.com/photos/jhoweaa/436923541 CC-BY
- 23. ...to think of journals as printed objects... http://www.flickr.com/photos/moria/212136629 CC-BY
- 24. http://www.flickr.com/photos/polaroidia/4301528813 CC-BY ...to physically search
- 25. Who are you?
- 26. “The mission of STM is to create a platform for exchanging ideas and information and to represent the interest of the STM publishing community in the fields of copyright, technology developments, and end user/library relations.”
- 28. So where can you add value? http://www.flickr.com/photos/picsbycam/3564466980 CC-BY
- 29. We share a problem http://www.flickr.com/photos/schnurrbart/43568532 CC-BY-SA
- 32. For me the resource is... http://www.flickr.com/photos/robbie73/3387189144 CC-BY-SA
- 33. ...for you it is... http://www.flickr.com/photos/mukumbura/4052671706 CC-BY-SA
- 38. You think this is a good thing... http://www.flickr.com/photos/robmcm/1671702203 CC-BY-SA
- 39. ...you’re “protecting your community from a deluge” http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrehan00/3700858676 CC-BY-SA
- 40. ...keeping us on the straight and narrow... http://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/4813974125 CC-BY
- 41. Or are we just limiting our ability to explore...? http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/2174000357 CC-BY
- 43. The right filter for me? Right filter for now? http://www.flickr.com/photos/lotzman/3595748169 CC-BY
- 44. In the last year...? http://flickr.com/photos/stewart/461099066/
- 45. ...in the past 24 hours?
- 46. On Google I set the filter... ...in your journal it’s hidden
- 47. An example.
- 50. “Retracted for scientific reasons...”
- 51. ...even though its a useful reaction
- 52. ...even if I am interested in oxidation by contaminants
- 53. To get the whole picture...
- 55. ...and its getting worse
- 56. Retractions per 100k papers 30 Retractions per 100k publications 25 20 15 10 5 0 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 Year https://github.com/neilfws/PubMed/blob/master/data/retractions.txt
- 57. Your filter has failed me... http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardmoross/3947406286 CC-BY
- 59. A gatekeeper is needed in a broadcast world... http://www.flickr.com/photos/m0dlx/506786451 CC-BY-SA
- 60. Someone had to choose... http://www.flickr.com/photos/baccharus/4473818003 CC-BY
- 62. ...we can’t reduce the flow... http://www.flickr.com/photos/bladeflyer/442496389 CC-BY
- 63. We need to recognise the world looks like this... http://www.flickr.com/photos/fraz5356/4754482759 CC-BY
- 65. ...content from all directions http://www.flickr.com/photos/ocarchives/4418399902 CC-BY
- 66. http://www.flickr.com/photos/62337512@N00/3958637561 CC-BY ...and embrace that as a good thing...
- 68. Every book its reader... Ranganathan’s third law of libraries
- 69. Every book its reader... Ranganathan’s third law of libraries
- 70. And today it is technically feasible
- 71. All we need to do is connect them... http://www.flickr.com/photos/adrian_s/8271860 CC-BY
- 72. It’s not filter failure http://www.flickr.com/photos/emperley3/4705354106 CC-BY-SA
- 73. A discovery deficit... http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationallibrarynz_commons/4078337883 Public Domain
- 74. Is search the answer? http://www.flickr.com/photos/ezioman/2095747903 CC-BY
- 76. ...not every problem is a nail http://www.flickr.com/photos/bb_matt/207102083 CC-BY
- 77. So is there an answer?
- 78. Remember this graph? 30 Retractions per 100k publications 25 20 15 10 5 0 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 Year https://github.com/neilfws/PubMed/blob/master/data/retractions.txt
- 79. Remember this graph? 30 Retractions per 100k publications 25 20 15 10 5 0 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 Year https://github.com/neilfws/PubMed/blob/master/data/retractions.txt Where did it come from...?
- 83. @communicating Plausible Accuracy PIERRE LINDENBAUM Mummi Thorissson John Fabiana Kubke Richard Grant Pedro Beltrao Neil Saunders Steve Wilson @gnat Branwen Hide Simon Coles Dupuis Simon Philips Pawel Szcsesny Paul Miller Tony Hey Jeremy Frey Nico Adams Richard Akerman Cavalli Gabriel JonMat Todd Stephen BrennerTim O’Reilly Noel Gorelick Dave de Roure Rich Apodaca Udell ISIS LSS Group Jeremiah Faith Jean-Claude Bradley Nicholas Cole Michael Barton JOHN WILLINSKY Phil Lord Victoria Stodden Martyn Bull Stephen Friend David CrottyClay Shirky @t John Cumbers Bora Chris Leonard Grace BaynesEva Amsen Egon Willighagen Mark Borkum Brian Kelly Tony Williams Dan Hagon Maxine Clarke Andrew Milsted Zivkovic Mitch Koch Lab Michael Nielsen Martin Fenner Steph Hannon WaldropGreg Wilson Brian Matthews Leigh Dodds Bill Hooker Glyn Moody Yaroslav Nikolaev Jenny Rohn Rafael Sidi Lee Smolin Frank NormanRicardo Vidal Iain Emsley Paulo Nuin Ariel Waldmann Timo HannayKen Shankland Lorie LeJeune Jonathan Gray PT Sefton Microsoft STFC Deepak Singh Shirley Wu ISIS Computing Group Helen Berman Andrew Peter Binfield Benjamin Good Dorothea Salo Liz Lyons PLoS Kasarskis Jen Dodd Lee Dirks Peter Murray-Rust Richard Akerman Carole Goble Jon Eisen Jenny Hale Lakshmi Shastry Steve Koch NPG Ben Goldacre Chad OrzelBill Flanagan Jon Tansley Michael Eisen Matt Wood SciFoo 2008/9 Friendfeed Hope Leman Rufus Pollock Victor HenningGoogle Björn Brembs Jo BadgeAllyson Lister Lisa Green TIM HUBBARD Rebecca Goulding campers Euan Adie John Andy Powell Harry Collins Gavin Bell Jim Downing Matt Johnson Wilbanks Mike Ellis DUNCAN HULL Garret Lisi Jamie McQuay ALAN CANN Catherine Jones Andrew Farke Gavin Baker Peter Suber Sabine HossenfelderFlickr The BioGangKevin KellyPaul Walk Arfon Smith Kaitlin Thaney Richard Curry Atilla Csordas Ian Mulvany
- 89. ...but also...
- 93. ...but also...
- 96. A network of linked objects...
- 98. http://www.flickr.com/photos/qnr/1263648697 CC-BY-SA Each interaction adds value...
- 99. ...and each interaction measures value... http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinksherbet/3209939998 CC-BY
- 100. ...adding pieces to my collection http://www.flickr.com/photos/klmircea/3210506796 CC-BY-SA
- 102. My collection.
- 103. My collection. Not your collection.
- 104. My filters. Not your filters.
- 105. ?
- 106. Simply connect.
- 109. ...but above all...
- 110. Connect people with people http://www.flickr.com/photos/yourdon/3088582622
- 111. The gatekeeper is dead... http://www.flickr.com/photos/tracy_olson/461251265 CC-BY-SA
- 112. We are the gatekeeper... ...all of us
- 113. Enable. Don’t block.
- 116. Don’t think about filtering. Don’t think about control.
- 118. cn@cameronneylon.net http://cameronneylon.net http://slideshare.net/cameronneylon Twitter: @cameronneylon Friendfeed: cameronneylon Thanks to: Sciencetwists, Friendfeeders, and the wider online community for ideas, criticism, and conversations. Deepak Singh, Larry Lessig, Andy Powell, and John Wilbanks for presentation inspiration.