Sharing ideas and sharing data: Researchers and Web 2.0
Lucy Power & Eric T. Meyer
Oxford Internet Institute
NeSC Workshop on Users, e-Research, and Web 2.0, 18 Jan 2010

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GeoVUE Node
Virtual London
Image Source: Hudson-Smith, Digital Urban Blog at http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2007/08/ordnance-survey-and-google-statements.html

GeoVUE Node
Virtual London
Image Source: Hudson-Smith, Digital Urban Blog at http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2007/08/ordnance-survey-and-google-statements.html

GeoVUE Node

Maptube

Incentives
• Openness
• Network benefits
• Advantages of scale (plus corresponding disadvantages)
• Sharing effort to filter complex ideas and data

• Friendfeed
– Cultural / field differences
– Work habits
– Information selection / volume
• GeoVue
– Institutions
– IP
In neither case were technological limitations particularly important
(although could be for certain users)
Barriers

Oxford e-Social Science (OeSS)
Node of the National e-Social Science
Directorate
Oxford Internet Institute
University of Oxford
Lucy Power
DPhil Candidate lucy.power@oii.ox.ac.uk
Eric T. Meyer
Research Fellow eric.meyer@oii.ox.ac.uk
http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/meyer
Oxford e-Social Science Project