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PeerLibrary outreach
Home Page: https://peerlibrary.org/
This might be worth taking a look: http://www.xprize.org/grand-challenges/learning.
We need a new screencast video. A short overview of PeerLibrary features. So how user comes to the site, searches for something, finds a document, that has a lot of annotations and highlights, and then annotates it and discusses it in real time with somebody else.
We should add more people to our community video:
Anyone else?
If we are at it, we could also fix few things:
Maybe somebody from eLife? Internet Archive? Bolt Law school? iSchool? Some Nobel laureate?
We could post on HandsOn for global volunteers.
Someone who will subscribe to mailing lists, RSS feeds, etc. from the O-source community, and stay up to date on anything relevant to PLib Internal & Users- things that will be interesting to the readers of our fb and twitter. Post somewhat frequently to fb (repost to twitter). Scan social media, etc.
The Knight News Challenge on Libraries is giving out $2.5 million to teams who can answer the question "How might we leverage libraries as a platform to build more knowledgeable communities?
As libraries nationwide redefine their role in the digital age, the need for ideas that build on their potential to spark innovation and spread information is urgent... The challenge aims to attract a broad range of ideas, not just from the library community but also from schools, businesses, journalists, designers, artists and others who believe in the transformational power of libraries.
Deadline is September 30, 2014, 5 PM Eastern Time.
See official brief with longer explanation of the call.
We applied to Knight News Challenge and got to the semi-finalists. I think we can try now because this is even more centered at us. We could explain how libraries could become virtual and offer their content in away PeerLibrary is doing. An example is academic literature. So we can present PeerLibrary as a project which addresses this issue globally, not just locally, by moving library concept online.
We have multiple stories we tell people what PeerLibrary is:
If we get 1.) and 2.) right (and get researchers from institutions into the system), then we will manage to do also 3.), which is the one I am personally really interested in.
So the story I explain for 3.) is. If I am at the institution (in a developed world with big budget) and I am trying to read the academic publication, I don't have so many issues: I can access them even if they
are closed access, if I do not understand something, I can easily find a peer or professor to help me understand it. But what I was outside of academia? Or in some less prestigious university which does not have people who could help me. Then I cannot get much help.
So here PeerLibrary comes into play, it provides a peer learning experience around academic publications. Even if in your local environment there is nobody to help you understand the paper, globally, there is definitely someone (especially if we get 2.) to work). Then, you can ask questions and others can help you understand.
It is in some way similar to StackOverflow. If you don't have access to university, in StackOverflow you can easily get help on even the hardest questions. In PeerLibrary, this is made all around the papers, so that you can do this questions in context and have easier time to point to exactly the parts you have issues understanding.
But even more. By creating those questions and other public notes, they stay available for future readers. So future readers have easier time understanding the paper, without having to ask questions anymore. (We call this "collaborative layer of knowledge around the papers, where a paper is a seed of knowledge and then community builds around it".)
And there is even more. :-) Even if paper is closed access and only researchers at rich institutions can access full-text, people without access can still read all the public annotations made (they are not under the same copyright), determine if this is paper useful for them, they can even still ask questions: "I am doing this and this and don't have access to the paper, does anybody who has access think that the
paper would be helpful to me, or can anybody explain how it would apply to what I am doing".
(So the trick is that PeerLibrary has to appeal both to researchers at institutions and be useful to people outside.)
(How PeerLibrary is currently made technologically, requires quite modern web technologies. So it is not really suitable for developing countries. There are many other challenges there as well, like language barriers and so on. But it is a step further, I believe.)
Question is: are they interested in what libraries as current institutions can do, or are they also interested in maybe libraries which have no physical space at all, but try to create a virtual (global) space with similar properties and which allow similar human interactions: reading clubs, serendipitous discovery, browsing, teaching, etc.
I think we should assume the latter and just present it in that way. This is similar how Internet Archive is. And nobody can say that they are not a library. And we upgrade: we provide also other facilities which libraries traditionally provided in physical space.
PeerLibrary is something new and not every professor or reading club organizer might understand how they can use it in their workflows. We could create some suggestions how could PeerLibrary fit there and improve what they are doing. And have some ready materials to demo/show/explain.
Update internal about news behind the scenes (like Sudoroom's Mesh).
e.g. https://lists.sudoroom.org/pipermail/mesh/2013-July/000204.html
One idea how to appeal to students would be to import readers they are using in classes (materials they have to read in the class, like academic papers, chapters of the books, etc.) in advance and then invite students to use and discuss and help each other understanding them using PeerLibrary.
When doing this we should be mindful of copyright status of each work and mark it accordingly. For copyrighted works we could then talk to professors to create a group for only students in the class and give them access to those works.
This might not be only a Berkeley ticket and could be applied elsewhere as well, but let's try it first here.
As discussed on the last meeting, somebody should subscribe to various open science, open access and other related mailing list and follow them a bit. Not necessary thoroughly, but to see if there are some chances to promote PeerLibrary: maybe somebody seeks such a tool, maybe somebody would like to volunteer, maybe there is an event or conference to which we could go, or grant call.
In addition, if something interesting is found there, we should repost/share that then to our Facebook and Twitter, so that we are useful for people interested in PeerLibrary there.
To adapt first Knight Foundation application to the new one, we have to focus on people in U.S.
Below, i quote from the first application. This time, we have to provide insights about how big the size of U.S. population will be effected positively by PeerLibrary.
If any of us is comfortable with demographic data sets of U.S., it would be empowering for the application that we find these numbers:
Public access to scientific knowledge
An overwhelming amount of journal literature is locked behind prohibitive paywalls, effectively restricting access for most people, especially researchers in developing countries. The Internet gives us the opportunity to bring this crucial information to a worldwide audience at virtually no marginal cost, and allows us to use it in new, innovative ways. PeerLibrary aims to encourage open access publishing by demonstrating that its advantages greatly transcend the issue of access itself: it empowers the entire scientific community by enabling new advancements and tools for scholarly communication.
We should promote to use PeerLibrary in DeCals. (DeCals are semi-formal classes taught by students to students at Berkeley.) In talking with professors and students I learned that in traditional classroom setting there are not many opportunities where students would be reading as a group. The are mostly asked to read the paper in private and write up the private report to send to the professor for grading. But DeCals are much more collaborative, often whole group reading a paper together. So a tool like PeerLibrary would be highly helpful for that. Especially if the class is to big for one session and not everyone can express what they think about the paper in that time, or it they have issues to step up in public. So PeerLibrary could help get also those ideas and thoughts to be heard (read).
In fall 2014 it seems for DeCals around cognitive science have too many interested students, so this could be helpful start there. You can contact @HeXXiiiZ for help on that.
PhD students at Berkeley (at least this is how it is in EECS department) have after first year "prelim", an exam from their field, where they have to read many seminal papers from their field. Studying for prelims is often a group effort and it would be one of really useful things to do through PeerLibrary. Especially because notes could help also future generations. And it would also be useful for papers themselves to have good notes made by Berkeley students. :-)
We could try to get department to distribute/offer reading material for prelims through PeerLibrary directly, to further make it easier to use it (and to automatically keep it up to date with any changes of required reading).
We should investigate how is this in other departments.
This is something which is done over summer in majority of cases, but we could try with few rare students who are doing it over the winter break.
This might not be only a Berkeley ticket and could be applied elsewhere as well, but let's try it first here.
Ask Nobel laureates from Berkeley to endorse PeerLibrary in video or site.
Or anyone else, if we have some way of reaching them and we believe they would be open to the idea.
At the end of October we are planning to create a big push about the project. We should start finding media outlets which would be interested in covering PeerLibrary. Globally.
It would be useful to learn more about local reading clubs. Maybe they are at local libraries. Would they be interested in using PeerLibrary to help them read? It can happen that not everyone can come to every meeting, so using it could be helpful. Or maybe it could be something to offer to libraries so that people would read more, not having to find a common time, but could still read together.
(This is again something which can be done everywhere, not just at Berkeley. But we could start here.)
We should figure out when and how to apply with a proposal for 31th Chaos Communication Congress.
In spring, to get even more people involved. :-)
At Berkeley, many student groups put a table on the Sproul plaza which is a central space where many students go by during the day, and they promote their club. We could also put there such a table sometimes and promote PeerLibrary and get students interested or in using it or in helping with the project.
Post on VolunteerMatch for global volunteers.
Apply to Big Ideas competition.
Deadline: November 13, 12 PM PST (that is noon, no?)
We could try to find meetups which read book and invite them to use PeerLibrary. Example:
The idea is to create a whitepaper which presents PeerLibrary, add it to PeerLibrary, annotate it, and then use it as an example of what PeerLibrary is. So we can then easy show what PeerLibrary is, and people can also read about more ideas around PeerLibrary.
Because PeerLibrary does not support versions of a publication, we should make the whitepaper so that we will not have to change it for foreseeable future. So whitepaper should be more conceptual and ideas. And then with annotations we will add additional content which will be explaining how something is done currently, explain in more details and so on.
We now have our logo, we should create PeerLibrary stickers and badges and offer them to send to anyone in the world, if they want them. :-)
Do we know people at other departments as well, who would be friendly to the idea? We might want to find them as well. I would love to find also non-science users in this way.
We could create a StackExchange Community Promotion Ads for PeerLibrary.
We sent one e-mail to friends, but there was completely no response. We should maybe go around councils and announce the project there?
We have currently around the black old P logo, which should be updated to new book logo. So on Twitter, GitHub, Gravatar, favicon, everywhere.
[C.]** O-source community/relevant non-PLib breakthrough/article/event posted to fb.
**We're still deciding on whether or not this will occur, how we'll approach it, etc.
We are now accepting pre-conference workshop proposals for the 2015 Code4Lib in Portland, Oregon. These workshops can either be a 1-day or a 1/2-day session and will occur on Monday, February 9, 2015.
To propose a session, please add your proposal to the wiki page directly, following the proposal formatting guidelines.
We are accepting Prepared Talk proposals until November 7. Voting will start on November 11, 2014 and continue through November 25, 2014.
In relation to #17, Alameda school district office could be interested in using PeerLibrary in schools, we should contact them.
Thoughts on how to get more people to know, understand, use and talk about Peer Library.
Get people to publish, make notes, comment and share more.
To grow a strong community, each target group (scholars/teachers, researchers, public/journalists) should probably be addressed separately, explaining how it caters to their individual needs and pointing out the value that is relevant to that specific group.
In general, the first questions that come to mind are:
A "How it works" diagram might be nice. Something like:
DISCOVER > READ > DISCUSS (share, improve, ask, use) > UNDERSTAND.
We applied to OSS World Challenge 2014 few months ago. Deadline for submission of results is October 26th, we should not miss that. :-)
Prepare kits for thos who promote PeerLibrary on their campuses.
At Mozilla Festival we will probably be presenting PeerLibrary by a local volunteer. It is soon, October 24, so we should help her and prepare materials. I think that what is needed is only a screencast video in the loop which can be displayed on a big screen. But also some answers to common questions one can learn.
We do not yet have business cards.
We should think what is the easiest way to get users to subscribe to our newsletter. We have a link on the first page, so this might be enough.
A. Weekly posts about PLib CONTENT, e.g. Publication Staff-Pick, Awesome Annotation, Collection of the Week, Notable Addition(s), Newest Contributor(s), Blooper Bump, etc.
-Sometimes reach out to the writers/adders (or last resort annotators) to make it more meaningful.
Ask Nobel laureates from Berkeley to start using PeerLibrary in their journal clubs in their research groups.
Or anyone else, if we have some way of reaching them and we believe they would be open to the idea.
There are 18 tickets, so be sure to register soon! There will be 40 minutes for lightning talks - anyone feeling brave?
http://www.eventbrite.com/e/bay-area-open-access-week-event-for-generation-open-tickets-13233113599
This might be worth taking a look: http://www.xprize.org/grand-challenges/learning.
October 20-26 2014 there will be a global Open Access Week. We should try to help organizing something on campus. (Maybe elsewhere as well?)
Type B.* Post relevant updates/enhancements/news to the blog. (Knight News Challenge is first.)
B(ii)**[Perhaps intertwine with pieces about members when activities are drier?]
_We're determining how often and what will be posted to the blog.
*_We're still deciding on whether or not this will occur, how we'll approach it, etc.
WILL EDIT LATER ACCORDINGLY
LibrePlanet is a free software conference. We should submit something. We are one of rare free software (AGPL licensed) tools for academic discussion, reading, archiving. We should submit something about us.
Deadline is Sunday, November 2nd, 2014 at 19:59 EST (23:59 UTC).
Common Core State Standards suggest that K-12 students should learn how to read papers and use academic language. PeerLibrary could help for that as well, allowing students to learn, discuss, and even have academic debates on the topics.
So while we are writing a PeerLibrary whitepaper (#7) we might temporary change about page to have more information (which will be then more or less presented in the whitepaper and we can then just link to it). So that we don't wait for the whitepaper.
Reach to various journal clubs at EECS department to start using PeerLibrary.
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