The Idea-to-Implementation Initiative: Discover relevant resources efficiently, obtain feedback instantly and collaborate more effectively.

“Idea-to-Implementation” is a new non-profit initiative supported by me. Its members can get the opportunity to share their ideas, get inspired and build a future together. All the members deliver valuable building blocks to a trusted community and retain control over all their contributions at all times.

The initiative exposes implicit invisible relations and allows people to connect based on entities identified as affinities that they share. Such entities are common real world things and can thus represent locations, people, events, document-snippets, charts, images etc.

Members can ask expertise analysis on excerpts of their personal reading library, social networks, search queries or browsing history and a use it as an intelligent collaboration tool.

The main hooks and hubs for the initiative operations are the people who contribute ideas. It puts the relations between the people central. You can see it as a huge peer-2-peer review network or a free open university where everybody is student, teacher, researcher and policy maker at the same time.

Support this new initiative by filling out their “Idea-to-Implementation tool” Questionnaire.

A backdoor to what you are ‘supposed’ to discover

For centuries libraries and their librarians operated as gatekeepers and experts in preservation. They were the providers of information in a paper paradigm. Libraries held paper copies from books and journals full of knowledge. They held the key to access the information in their resources and refer to other libraries’ resources.  The dominant provision of information has changed with the arrival of the Internet. Most information is now digitally shared and exchanged online. [1]

A growing number of Web 2.0 Services such as Mendeley, Bibsonomy and citeulike are disclosing information from a huge amount of resources. However it is still a troubling task for users to check all those services one by one as they each provide access to a (small) part of the entire available information ‘cloud’…

Presentation on RDSRP’11

Last week I presented our work on the I-KNOW 2011 Special Track on Recommendation, Data Sharing, and Research Practices in Science 2.0 in Graz.You can find a link and citation to our publication here. In this post I include the presentation slides including the demo movie used during our session on Wednesday 7th of September.

Influence of social media and intelligent recommendation systems on research and expert finding

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Social media play an ever increasing role in the kind of information we get to see and especially how (fast). More than ever, any individual gets the opportunity to consume (after paying a fee) scientifific articles that they desire. Besides that it’s possible via news groups, forums, faq-sites, blogs and social networks to contribute ideas as a new article or directly as a quick tought directly to followers or subscribers. People no longer publish only in their free time or as a hobby. Professionals, experts, researchers and educators are increasingly using social media. Defining an expert or shaping a research project evolves enormously under influence of new technology as intelligent recommendation systems  who massively starting to adopt social media in their algorithms.

Researcher Profiling based on Semantic Analysis in Social Networks

Last week I defended my work in front of the jury of the KULeuven. This included a presentation and a demo. I want to share those with you. You can read the full thesis text here: Researcher Profiling based on Semantic Analysis in Social Networks