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Event highlights RIN/NESTA Open Science Case Studies

16 August, 2010 | in DCC News

A new report on research carried out by DCC entitled "Open to All? Case studies of openness in research" is to be launched at an event at 4.40pm on 15 Sept 2010 at the Royal Society, 7 Carlton House Terrace, London. The event titled "Research and routes to innovation: Researchers’ use and exploitation of web based resources" also considers the findings from the recent RIN study If you build it, will they come? How researchers perceive and use web 2.0.

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If you build it will they come?

13 July, 2010 | in Publications

A set of innovative techniques that are collectively termed 'web 2.0' have enabled researchers to become producers as well as consumers of information. This report is based on a study commissioned by the Research Infomratin Network to investigate whether such aspirations are being realised. 

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How can Social Bookmarking tools support community resource building?

10 June, 2009 | in Blogs

In the DCC we are trying to work out ways that we can present tools to the community that help you to help us, to help you. The most primitive example of this would be the use of email lists: having identified some issue, we ask a question on a list, and use feedback from list members to develop our response to the issue. But we want to go further; just not sure how.In this post I want to explore two use cases where social bookmarking tools might be helpful, and to seek advice on how to take these ideas forward. The two cases are:

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Research Repository System web orientation

2 July, 2008 | in Blogs

This is one of a series of posts aiming to expand on the idea of the negative click, positive value repository, which I'm now calling a Research Repository System. I've suggested it should contain these elements:

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Do we really want repositories to be more Web2.0-like?

18 June, 2008 | in Blogs

I’m spending some time thinking through what a negative click, positive value repository system should be like. Thanks to everyone for their comments on this idea. Various people suggested we should be more Web 2.0-like. Good idea, that’s following success. Or is it?

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