21.12.2011
by Wolfgang Reinhardt
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Yesterday evening, at exactly 21:00:41 CET, I submitted my PhD thesis with the title “Awareness Support for Knowledge Workers in Research Networks“. Now it is the committee’s turn to assess it and given they will let me pass, the public … Continue reading
10.04.2011
by Wolfgang Reinhardt
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I’m currently writing an article on OpenScience in TEL together with my colleagues Peter Kraker, Derick Leony and Günther Beham. In the process of this writing I was searching for good examples of OpenScience and requirements that people expressed. Yesterday … Continue reading
10.04.2011
by Wolfgang Reinhardt
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Today I stumbled upon the OpenHeatMap project. You can upload a Excel spreadsheet or connect to a spreadsheet in Google Docs and visualize your data in a heat map. It’s simple as that. While the navigation through the map feels … Continue reading
08.04.2011
by Wolfgang Reinhardt
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Tonight we started the closed beta of ginkgo, a cool new tool for the management of scientific events. ginkgo is no classical conference management system. It rather combines conference management functions with those known from social networking sites. The … Continue reading
30.03.2011
by Wolfgang Reinhardt
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During my time here at the JTEL Winter School 2011 in La Clusaz, France I had the opportunity to reflect about my Ph.D. thesis. Tomorrow I will have to give a simulated thesis defense including the presentation of the overall … Continue reading
31.01.2011
by Wolfgang Reinhardt
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In this post I’ll explore the social interactions in Twitter that were made by participants and supervisors of an exploratory seminar as well as the external experts that joined the discussion. The seminar was designed to let students explore the … Continue reading
01.12.2010
by Wolfgang Reinhardt
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In two earlier posts I reported about my tests with Amazon’s MTurk for transcribing interviews I did in the context of my Ph.D. First of all, I’d like to mention that all-in-all I’m satisfied with the results of the transcriptions … Continue reading
19.11.2010
by Wolfgang Reinhardt
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Together with my colleagues Nina Heinze and Thomas Ullmann, I’m currently in the process of organizing a workshop on awareness and reflection in the context of (distributed) research communities. We’d be very happy if you spread the word about the … Continue reading
09.11.2010
by Wolfgang Reinhardt
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Currently we are running an interview series on awareness issues and visions to overcome them in the context of distributed research communities. During the EC-TEL conference some weeks ago, someone mentioned Amazon’s Mechanical Turk could be a helpful tool in … Continue reading
08.09.2010
by Wolfgang Reinhardt
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Today I put a project closely related to my Ph.D. online. The service is called soharc which stands for social handle archive and aims as being a central hub for social handles and scientific events in order to enhance researchers’ … Continue reading