User:Daniel Mietchen/Talks/CoSci12/Session 8

All three papers are open for anyone to comment.

The New Scientist: What Has (Not) Changed So Far and What Will Change in the Near Future?

 * Hard to live up to such a title
 * My own background: World Association of Young Scientists, Eurodoc, Thesis e.V.


 * General comment: where are the figures?
 * Journal of the future, criterion 8:
 * Digitization opens up new opportunities to provide content, such as through semantic and multimedia enrichment. The scientific journal of the future adheres to open Web standards and creates a framework in which the technological possibilities of the digital media can be exploited by authors, readers and machines alike, and content remains continuously linkable.

Developing scientific software

 * Developing Scientific Software: The Role of the Internet by Aleksandra Pawlik, Judith Segal, Helen Sharp and Marian Petre
 * The internet as one of the main sources for self-study
 * One of the reasons why doing things in the open (incl. research) makes sense.


 * Key issues, again:
 * integration of tools with workflows
 * (public) version history
 * having the code public prevents reinventions of the wheel
 * Hackathons: Etherpads*Some of ongoing software development projects I am currently involved with:
 * JATS-to-MediaWiki
 * Open Access Media Importer
 * What did the interviewees say about how they chose programming languages, code libraries or the structures of their software?
 * "Release when done" or "release on schedule"?


 * WikiPedia Academy Keynote by Benjamin Mako Hill, "When does peer production succeed" - looked at software development and wikis
 * My personal experience: Scientists write "ugly" code and many would hesistate to publish their code as "Open Source" (since they are sort of ashamed) - though my code is in a public SVN on my server, so go and see it (and be afraid, very afraid --Beursken (talk) 15:25, 3 August 2012 (UTC))

Video in electronic dissertations
Authors would self-publish their works, but the reviewer networks would provide a page for each book that acknowledged that it was a work recognized by a community of scholars and the peer-reviews of the book would be published online so that scholars could compare the finished product to the original reviews.
 * The S&T Dissertation in a State of Motion by Richard Stern
 * Out of ca. 1 million dissertations in the US indexed by ProQuest, since 1999, nearly 400  S&T dissertations have had video supplements
 * see also The ironies of academic publishing: The system is stupid and it’s time for a new manifesto:
 * My own dissertation (CC BY), with videos
 * multimedia in PDF


 * Open Science PhD dissertation by Andy Maloney
 * Other sample video
 * Out of 231146 supplementary materials in the PMC Open Access Subset, at least 78005 are licensed under a free license, most commonly CC BY. Furthermore, at least 2273 of those are videos. (source)
 * Dance Your PhD
 * Journal of Visualized Experiments

On embedding 3D / Video / Audio see [[Portable Document Format - version 1.7 (2008) was the first to fully support embedded (as opposed to linked) video and audio --Beursken (talk) 15:29, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, but things like pdfanim worked well before that - essentially embedding a loop over a series of images. -- Daniel Mietchen (talk) 22:04, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

Human-machine interaction

 * Publishing against the machine by Adam Sofronijevic


 * Remark about acting free chess champions being team of medium-"quality" human and bot players
 * Fits with experience on Wikipedia, see Meet the 'bots' that edit Wikipedia


 * Computer-generated prose
 * Are the droids taking our jobs?
 * Hello, my name is Adam, and I'm a robot scientist.
 * And I'm Eureqa, also a robot scientist. Nice to meet you.


 * Race Against the Machine: Andrew McAfee: "Yes, the droids are taking our jobs, but focusing on that fact misses the point entirely. The point is that we are freed up to do other things".
 * Google Translate now uses Wikipedias as text corpuses to train their algorithms. Once that works, Google Translate shall be used to seed new Wikipedia articles. First try with several Indian languages failed a few years ago, but the software keeps getting better.
 * Rethinking education: Khan Academy
 * Especially Race against the machine by By Erik Brynjolfsson (@erikbryn) and Andrew McAfee (@amcafee) or Video for the modern scientist