Presentation at IASSIST 2011 conference

1. ScholarLib: Sharing Resources and Data by linkingscientificInformation Portalswith online Social Networks IASSIST 2011, Vancouver TimoWandhoefer, Mark Thamm GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences 06/03/2011

2. What is the Idea of ScholarLib? “Make scientific information accessible within Social Networking Sites – were people are – and feel familiar with” “Enrich the information retrieval within information portals by using users’ annotations as value-added service” 2

3. What are the Features? Social Networking Site users Access metadata and data sets (e.g. full text) Share (Dissemination) Annotate (rate / comment) Click on “I am the author” button (bibliography) Information portal users (feature work) Link on author profile Enrich information retrieval 3

4. What is the Graphical Outline? 4

6. Information portal / data

7. Social Networking Site

8. Service layer Grails (groovy) / iframe 5

9. Use Case Bibliography  Working title ScholarLib 6

10. Information Portal / datawww.gesis.org/sowiport 7

11. Social Networking sitesfirst experience 8

12. ScholarLib Demonstrator XING 9 www.xing.com German Social Network Site for business contacts ≅ 10 million users (also scientists) Supported OpenSocial apps until May ’11 User ID

13. ScholarLib Demonstrator iversityhttp://preview.iversity.org/literature 10 www.iverity.org Social Networking Site for German universities (teaching and research) ≅ 10 thousand users Scientists and students Strong on social sciences No application support Service layer within iframe No user ID yet

14. ScholarLib Demonstrator Facebookhttp://apps.facebook.com/gesis_demo/ 11 www.facebook.com International Social Networking Site ≅ 665 million users ≅ 10 million users in Germany Support apps with Facebook connect User ID

15. ConclusionSocial Networking Site Experience Support of application concept XING, Facebook Support of general API OpenSocial (Google) Iframe solution rejected – no user ID Type: Business and working platforms 12

16. Future Work Focus on more Social Networking Sites Evaluation and typology Proceed with Facebook and iversity Start with LinkedIn Assessment with end users Integrate more data bases and data types Extend functionality Publication graph User activity graph 13

17. Thank you! For more information please contact mark.thamm@gesis.org or timo.wandhoefer@gesis.org 14