2. Quality Assuring Knowledge
I keep six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.
Kipling
3. What is “quality” ?
Subjective feeling or objective fact?
Endless attempts to measure (REF, RQF, etc)
Size? Depth? Relevance?
4. Why does it matter?
Effectiveness, efficiency
Respect, reputation
Authority?
www.rin.ac.uk/social-media-guide
5. How should we measure “quality”?
Funding?
Ethical approval
Publication - peer review
Citation
“Impact”
Social:
Crowdsourcing – serendipitous discovery,
tagging (Everything is Miscellaneous)
9. Where?
Journals (online, eToCs, RSS) – filtered content
Tools – many examples:
• Social networks – Twitter as Librarian?
• Wikis – collaborative knowledge building
• Social bookmarking, citation & annotation
10. Who?
Your Personal Learning Network (PLN)
- the people who filter for you.
- you’re only as smart as your network?
Loss of authority?
11. Workshop Questions
1. What tools do you currently use?
2. Authority – good or evil? How can you tell?
3. How do you find the unknown unknowns?
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Notas del editor
Quality Assuring KnowledgeDr Alan J. Cann, Department of Biology,Adrian Building, University of Leicester,University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK.
Quality Assuring KnowledgeI keep six honest serving-men(They taught me all I knew);Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.(Rudyard Kipling)
What is “quality” ?No real answer.Assessing the quality of research. BMJ 2004; 328 doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7430.39 http://www.bmj.com/content/328/7430/39