Moderator: Rajiv Gupta,
MD, PHD, Director, VCT Lab and Assistant Radiologist, Department of
Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Sharing Knowledge: Institutional
and Technological Facilitators and Inhibitors
David Lazer, PhD, Associate Professor of Political Science
and Computer Science, Northeastern University & Director, Program
on Networked Governance, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University
What are the factors that affect how people search for information,
and in turn, whether others provide information? This presentation will
examine three case studies of information sharing: regarding the use
of DNA in the criminal justice system, regarding the use of the Internet
by members of Congress, and among State Health Officials, focusing on
the questions of what facilitates and inhibits knowledge sharing.
ResearchGATE: A First step
towards Science 2.0
Ijad Madisch, MD, PhD,
ResearchGATE CEO and Co-Founder and Researcher in the Department
of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University
ResearchGATE is a no-charge, online research platform focused on the sciences, but open to all disciplines. Improving collaboration among scientists is the top goal and ResearchGATE offers many tools to encourage this. First, with its social networking platform, researchers create profiles, form groups, upload papers and network with each other. Within the groups, members can use a smart file and data sharing tool to co-edit documents. For institutions or associations, the platform offer Subcommunities. These are essentially smaller, (password-)protected versions of the ResearchGATE platform that are open only to members of the respective institution. ResearchGATE also assists individual researchers in managing their literature resources. The platform provides extensive search capacities - including a semantic search engine into which entire abstracts can be pasted – that help users locate papers both within the internal resources and in all major external databases, including PubMed and CiteSeer. ResearchGATE’s new Job Board helps keep members working in the physical world; employment-seekers can find extensive academic postings here. The team's commitment to serious research is reflected by its scientific advisory network of more than 140 leading scientists. Currently, over 150,000 registered scientists from more than 200 countries form the network.
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