1. Web 2.0: A little less conversation, a little more action please
IASSIST 2014
6W: Research Environments
Time: Friday June :00-10:20
Location: TRS 1-109
Chair: James Doiron
Stream: Research Data Management
Margaret Ward Jack Kneeshaw

2. What do we mean by conversation?
Archive
Archive

3. Why do we need more action?
UK Data Service commitment to funders
Feedback from user consultation
Innovation fund projects, e.g. DataRelator
Support our enthusiastic users
To enable promotion of self/resources
Provide mechanism for User-to-User help
To encourage interaction
Harness external expertise/crowdsourcing

4. User portfolio project - initial ideas
Aim to create an interactive community with scope for user customisation
A public-facing web ‘answers forum’ where ‘communities of practice’ can assist each other, permitting more targeted and less labour intensive levels of user support
Experiment with the concept of the ‘documentation drop box’ where specialist users can augment documentation which can be re-published
Create a public profile, incorporating other IDs (e.g., LinkedIn, ORCID) cont..

5. User portfolio project - initial ideas 2
Make current and past research projects more visible
Upload and share syntax/code
Comment, tag and add content on blogs, resources, records
Provide advice to other users
Store and share links to searches, resources etc.
Include ideas from Innovation projects

6. What will success look like?
User-generated content will be visible across the website – sharing information will seem normal
Critical mass of Contributors: Engaging and Sharing, helping/advising/tagging/even disagreeing
Contributors will surprise us – in a good way!

7. Where are we with the project?

8. Requirements: Phase 1 / Phase 2
Forum
Documentation drop box
Public profile
Promote projects
Share syntax
Comment/tag
Advise others
Store/share links
A balance of what is achievable quickly, is high priority and doesn’t clash with other developments

9. Public profile Personal details Mr John Smith University of Essex
Professional activity
University web page
ORCiD
Academia.edu
LinkedIn
Twitter
slideshare
weebly
Blogger
My case studies
Case study title
My syntax
Syntax description

10. Adding syntax to catalogue records
Syntax/Code
SYNTAX/CODE
Contribute your syntax/code
Report an error
Disclaimer
smith_jfr_article.sps | SPSS | Code used to create variables and run analyses for my article in the Journal of Fictitious Research | John Smith, University of Essex
equivalisedincome.do | Stata | Syntax to calculate household equivalised income variable for BSA 12 | Janet Brown, University of Manchester

11. Why sharing syntax is high priority
Allows users to add their own content to resources and enlarge/enrich the Service’s set of resources
A specific advantage is the novel facility to add one’s own syntax to the data used in a publication (cf. Picketty/Financial Times)
Publication <> Data+Syntax

12. Timetable Phase 1: Requirements > Tech spec > Beta Q4 2014
Innovation Fund developments: Pilot work > Competition > Potential development in Q4 2014
Phase 2: 2015