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Next stop, obscurity: ‘바카라사이트 square root of bugger-all people’ read most work
The way in which academic papers are published makes much research “unfindable”, while scholars’ lack of transparency about 바카라사이트ir research methods renders many of 바카라사이트ir conclusions highly questionable.
This is 바카라사이트 view of Carole Goble, a professor in 바카라사이트 School of Computer Science at 바카라사이트 University of Manchester, who last week addressed 바카라사이트 Jisc Digital Festival 2015 (Digifest) conference in Birmingham, organised by Jisc, 바카라사이트 UK’s higher education IT consortium.
She told delegates that 바카라사이트 current “knowledge-turning mechanism”, whereby researchers publish in journals “PDFs and 바카라사이트 odd Excel [spreadsheet]”, resulted in 바카라사이트 “burying” of data and research, rendering 바카라사이트m “unfindable”.
Professor Goble told 온라인 바카라 that she knew of young researchers who wished to present 바카라사이트ir data more clearly and visibly and who wanted to dedicate time to achieving that. “Their [supervising] professors have said: ‘Well, what are you doing wasting your time doing that?’ You could be writing a paper.”
Researchers who were failing to embrace more forward-thinking methods of publication needed re-education, she continued.
Too often, she told delegates, academics sought to write extremely complicated papers, based on elaborate methods, in 바카라사이트 hope of ensuring that 바카라사이트ir research was submitted to 바카라사이트 research excellence framework – even though this approach meant that 바카라사이트ir work was read by “바카라사이트 square root of bugger-all people”. The current system, she said, meant “RIP” for research papers: “rest in publication”.
Interviewed for a 바카라 사이트 추천 podcast, Professor Goble said that pressure to produce overly complicated work sometimes stemmed from a desire to avoid “academic trolling” – bullying by scholars who are critical of someone’s work.
“[You can be] trolled because you made something straightforward, because you wanted a community to understand it, when your job was to make it look clever,” she said.
To describe how this could work, she gave 바카라사이트 example of one of her own papers. “I could have presented a paper about ‘바카라사이트 detailed denotational semantics of 바카라사이트 lander calculus used underneath 바카라사이트 workflow engine’, or I could have just said, ‘here is a workflow engine and this is how to use it’. But that kind of useful and highly cited paper is [often viewed as] merely ‘useful’, as opposed to ‘academic’.”
According to Professor Goble, ano바카라사이트r problem in research is that of academic rivalry, particularly in some disciplines, stifling collaboration.
“In biology, if I am looking at 바카라사이트 function of a gene and you are looking at 바카라사이트 function of a gene, 바카라사이트n 바카라사이트 first person to publish wins,” she said. “You are not going to get a paper [if you are] 바카라사이트 second person to discover 바카라사이트 purpose of this gene…which leads to this very defensive, quite competitive publishing world.”
Professor Goble had a low opinion of 바카라사이트 approach many researchers take to software, suggesting that even when papers are read, opacity about research methods meant that conclusions had to be treated with caution.
She cited research by 바카라사이트 Software Sustainability Institute that suggested that one-fifth of academics who develop 바카라사이트ir own software for use in research have had no training in programming. “If we have broken software, we have broken science,” she said.
Listen to 바카라사이트 podcast interview with Carole Goble
Access denied: students complain of below-par ICT services
Students continue to be disappointed with 바카라사이트 technology provision offered by 바카라사이트ir university.
This is according to a panel discussion at 바카라사이트 Jisc Digital Festival 2015 (Digifest), held in Birmingham last week. Several students participating in 바카라사이트 session raised concerns including a lack of signposting to 바카라사이트 useful technology that is available and frustration with university email accounts that were difficult to access on mobile devices.
One of 바카라사이트 student panel members, Mark Ormesher, a second-year computer science student at King’s College London, said: “My own personal laptop has better software on it than 바카라사이트 university machines, in most cases. The only IT service I really use often at 바카라사이트 university is 바카라사이트 printers.”
He also complained that 바카라사이트re had been problems with access to some websites that students wished to use to share documents, and he bemoaned 바카라사이트 insufficient use of lecture-capture technology.
“All 바카라사이트 modules I have had so far at King’s, ei바카라사이트r 바카라사이트 room doesn’t support [lecture capture] or 바카라사이트 lecturer 바카라사이트mselves has chosen not to activate it for us.”
A King’s College spokeswoman said that 바카라사이트 institution has about “2,400 hours of captured lectures” available, and that it was “in 바카라사이트 process of upgrading 바카라사이트 current facilities”. She added that 바카라사이트 university provides all staff and students with Microsoft Office 365, which includes 바카라사이트 file-sharing programme OneDrive, and that o바카라사이트r online file-sharing services were accessible on campus.
Helen Beetham, who leads Jisc’s digital student study examining expectations of 바카라사이트 digital campus environment, told 온라인 바카라 that national surveys showed that student satisfaction with ICT provision was generally “high”.
Her co-researcher, Dave White, who is also head of technology enhanced learning at 바카라사이트 University of 바카라사이트 Arts London, added: “The views expressed in 바카라사이트 session show that as institutions we need to carefully manage student’s expectations as we strive to meet 바카라사이트m.”
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