making scholarly publications accessible online

Making scholarly publications accessible online:Erdős and beyondProf. Jonathan P. Bowen

London South Bank UniversityMuseophile Limited, UK

www.jpbowen.com

Introduction• Prof. Jonathan Bowen• Mathematics, art, engineering,

computer science, softwareengineering, museum informatics

• Career: Oxford, Reading, LSBU (Emeritus)• Visitor: King’s College London, Brunel,

Westminster, Waikato (New Zealand, 2011), Pratt Institute (New York, USA, 2012)

• Electronic Visualisation and the Arts(EVA London conference, 10–12 July 2012)

Overview• Communities• Publications• Co-authorship• Citations• Databases

– Google Scholar– Microsoft Academic Search– Academia.edu

• Visualization

Communities• Community of Practice

(CoP) – collection of peopledeveloping domain knowledge

• Academic communities– researchers, professors, science, arts, ...

• Body of Knowledge (BoK)– ontology for a particular domain

• Interdisciplinarity vs. Multidisciplinarity

Community of Practice (CoP)Social sciences concept• Wenger, E.: Communities of Practice:

Learning, Meaning, and Identity. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1998)

• Wenger, E., McDermott, R.A., Snyder, W.: Cultivating Communities of Practice: A guide to managing knowledge. Harvard Business School Press, Boston (2002)

• A brief introduction by Etienne Wenger, 2006: www.ewenger.com/theory

Fundamental elements of a CoP1. Domain: Common interest to be

effective. E.g., software engineering.

2. Community: Group of people willing to engage with others. E.g., researchers.

3. Practice: Explore existing and develop new knowledge. Industrial liaison vs. basic research.

Cultivating a CoP1. Design the CoP to evolve naturally. 2. Create opportunities for open discussion.3. Welcome and allow different levels of

participation.

Example – two communities

(arts and science)

Facebook TouchGraph connections

GoogleFirst webserver, 1999– already in a museum!

Technology

Google

• Museum label

Google Scholar• http://scholar.google.com – publications & citations

• h-index (top h publications with h or more citations)

• i10-index (at least 10 citations)

h-index

Top h publications with h or more citations

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-index

Microsoft Academic Search• http://academic.research.microsoft.com

• Publications, citations, h-index

• g-index (top g with a total of at least g2 citations)

g-index

Top g with a total of at least g2 citations

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-index

Top 30 co-authors as measured by the number of publications

Academic Search

co-author graph

Academic Search citation graph• Top 34 authors by number of citations

Supervisors and studentsAlonzo Church and Alan Turing

Academic Search

genealogy graph

See alsoMathematics Genealogywebsite

Alan Turing (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954)• Centenary year in 2012

– www.turingcentenary.eu • Andrew Hodges (Turing biographer)

– Alan Turing: the Enigma (1983)– www.turing.org.uk

• The Turing Digital Archive (3,000 images)– King’s College Cambridge– www.turingarchive.org

• Jack Copeland’s Turing Archive (facsimiles)– www.alanturing.net

Turing’s Worlds (23–24 June 2012)• Department of Continuing Education, University

of Oxford – http://conted.ox.ac.uk/turing

Ivor Grattan-Guinness et al.

Happy Birthday Alan Turing!• Also Ivor Grattan-Guinness, historian of mathematics

and logic (born 23 June 1941)

The Erdős number• Paul Erdős (1913–1996)

– Hungarian mathematician– en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erdős– Erdős number 0– Co-authored over 1,000 publications

• 511 co-authors– Erdős number 1– Co-authors of Erdős co-authors

• Erdős number 2• Etc.

Academic Search

co-author path

Robin Wilson, mathematician and EVA London 2012 co-author

The Bacon number

• Kevin Bacon (born 1958),film and theatre actoren.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon_number

• Cf. Erdős number, but for film credits• “Erdős–Bacon number”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdős–Bacon_numberSum of person’s Erdős/Bacon nos(as low as three!)

• Further numbers for other fields?

Academia.edu • Academic networking website• Cf. LinkedIn (professional networking)• Includes affiliation to university and

department• Allows easy addition of books, papers,

answers, talks, teaching documents, research interests, CV, status updates, websites, etc.

• Add keywords for publication searching• Monitoring of access statistics

Academia.edu home page

E.g., lsbu.academia.edu/JonathanBowen

Academia.edu statistics

E.g., lsbu.academia.edu/JonathanBowen

Academia.edu search engine accesses

E.g., lsbu.academia.edu/JonathanBowen

Academia.edu document accesses

Last 30 days

Academia.edu document accesses

Last 30 days

Academia.edu top documents

Last 30 days

Academia.edu keyword searches

Last 30 days

Academia.edu country accesses

Last 30 days

Academia.edu top country accesses

Last 30 days

Non-free citations websites

• E.g., Web of Knowledge

• Thomson Reuters: http://wokinfo.com

• UK: http://wok.mimas.ac.uk

• OK if your university subscribes

• But not all do ...

Free publications websites• ACM Digital Library – CS professional body• BibSonomy – social bookmark and

publication sharing system• CiteSeerX – publications database• DBLP – CS bibliography, individual effort• Issuu – personal documents (PDF, ...)• Mendeley – reference manager,

academic social network• ResearchGate – for scientists, make your

work visible, 1.7 million members• Researchr – find, collect, share, review

scientific publications

ACM Digital Library• Computer science professional body• Editable personal publications page• portal.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81407593776

ACM Digital Library

Personal page features

DBLP – Computer Science Bibliography• University project – personal publications page• Major computer science journals and conferences• dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/b/Bowen:Jonathan_P=.html

DBLP – Computer Science Bibliography• University project – personal publications page• Major computer science journals and conferences• dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/b/Bowen:Jonathan_P=.html

Mendeley – www.mendeley.com Professional networking, managing/sharing papers

Mendeley – www.mendeley.com Professional networking, managing/sharing papers

Mendeley – www.mendeley.com Professional networking, managing/sharing papers

Summary

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?” – Albert Einstein (1879–1955)

• Plethora of sites

• Check you profile on a selection

• Choose one or two effective ones

Conclusion

Prof. Jonathan Bowen(FBCS, FRSA)

jonathan.bowen@lsbu.ac.ukwww.jpbowen.com

• Academia.edu – virtual community• Academic Search – visualisation• Google Scholar – visibility

Visualising Virtual Communities:From Erdős to the Arts

• EVA London 2012 conference proceedingswww.bcs.org/ewic/eva2012

• Jonathan P. Bowen & Robin J. Wilsonewic.bcs.org/content/ConWebDoc/46141

• Email: jonathan.bowen@lsbu.ac.uk

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