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My colleague, Uta Grothkopf, ESO Library just shared this blog and I thought I would continue the sharing...what do you all think?   Is this the direction you see?

Jisc (originally: Joint Information Systems Committee) is an organization in the UK that offers leadership and support to UK educational organizations (http://www.jisc.ac.uk/aboutus.aspx). Sarah Porter, head of innovation at Jisc, and Torsten Reimer published an blog post entitled

"Top seven predictions for the future of research"
(http://www.jisc.ac.uk/inform/inform35/7Predictions.html)

According to the authors, these are:

1. Research will go mobile
Tablet computers and mobile phones are sophisticated enough to collect data during field work and sometimes even to process it, allowing researchers to share findings instantaneously with distributed teams across the globe

2. Lines between professionals, amateurs and the public will blur Researchers and citizen scientists collaborate through "crowd sourcing" (example: Galaxy Zoo)

3. Researchers fully embrace social media Scientists increasingly use social media to share and discover information. Social media will enhance the visibility and reputation of researchers (example: "altmetrics", alternative metrics to journal impact factors based on discussions and mentioning in social media)

4. Data will drive research across many disciplines Data-driven research will become more prominent in many disciplines including for instance the humanities

5. Automate it
Automated parts of the research process can help cope with the ever increasing amount of information, e.g., text mining to identify relevant research publications.

6. Visualize it
Use of visualization and info-graphics will increase

7. Researchers as data managers
With data at the heart of their activities, researchers will have to be more involved in its management and curation

cheers,

…Uta

Uta Grothkopf
ESO Library

My colleague, Uta Grothkopf, ESO Library just shared this blog and I thought I would continue the sharing...what do you all think?   Is this the direction you see?

Jisc (originally: Joint Information Systems Committee) is an organization in the UK that offers leadership and support to UK educational organizations (http://www.jisc.ac.uk/aboutus.aspx). Sarah Porter, head of innovation at Jisc, and Torsten Reimer published an blog post entitled

"Top seven predictions for the future of research"
(http://www.jisc.ac.uk/inform/inform35/7Predictions.html)

According to the authors, these are:

1. Research will go mobile
Tablet computers and mobile phones are sophisticated enough to collect data during field work and sometimes even to process it, allowing researchers to share findings instantaneously with distributed teams across the globe

2. Lines between professionals, amateurs and the public will blur Researchers and citizen scientists collaborate through "crowd sourcing" (example: Galaxy Zoo)

3. Researchers fully embrace social media Scientists increasingly use social media to share and discover information. Social media will enhance the visibility and reputation of researchers (example: "altmetrics", alternative metrics to journal impact factors based on discussions and mentioning in social media)

4. Data will drive research across many disciplines Data-driven research will become more prominent in many disciplines including for instance the humanities

5. Automate it
Automated parts of the research process can help cope with the ever increasing amount of information, e.g., text mining to identify relevant research publications.

6. Visualize it
Use of visualization and info-graphics will increase

7. Researchers as data managers
With data at the heart of their activities, researchers will have to be more involved in its management and curation

cheers,

…Uta

Uta Grothkopf
ESO Library

The AAS will make the UAT freely available for development and use within the astronomy community, while ensuring the thesaurus remains relevant and useful.

Further development of the UAT will be undertaken by the John G.Wolbach Library at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in collaboration with the Astrophysics Data System (ADS) and the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) to enhance and extend the thesaurus to ensure that it continues to meet the needs of the astronomy community.

Adoption of the thesaurus within the ADS will result in better linking with the majority of astronomy research journal articles through a common vocabulary, thereby greatly improving the accuracy of information discovery.

The work to combine the thesauri has been carried out by Access Innovations, Inc., a privately held company that specializes in information management and database creation products and services.

For details on this endeavor, please view the press release.

http://ioppublishing.org/newsDetails/new-thesaurus-created-for-the-astronomy-community

Once in awhile I run into an article that I find fascinating.  I was just alerted to this article from Annual Review of Entomology, 2012, vol. 57, 205-227, Insects as Weapons of War, Terror, and Torture by Jeffrey A. Lockwood, Department of Philosophy and MFA Program in Creative Writing, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82071

If you have a few moments, I recommend this excellent review.  Here is a snippet from the abstract:

For thousands of years insects have been incorporated into human conflict, with the goals of inflicting pain, destroying food, and transmitting pathogens.

There is also a related video.  For all you folks who love or hate six-legged creatures....

http://www.library.drexel.edu/cgi-bin/r.cgi?url=http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-ento-120710-100618