1. Web 2.0 in Science
Marc Loman, Hugo Besemer
Wageningen UR Library

2. Time table
 9:00 Web 2.0 for Science : Introduction
 9:30 Social Bookmarking
 10:30 Working at documents with a group
 11:15 Keeping-up-to date with RSS
 11:45 Personal start pages

3. 2.0
WEB
All things
= social media

4. The Web was made for Scientist
 Tim Berners-Lee proposed
the WWW in 1989 as a
collaborative workspace for
scientists
 Tim O’Reilly and company
coined the term Web 2.0 in
2004. Essentially the social
web for scientist as
envisaged by TBL

5. Source: Markus Angermeier

6. Elements of Web 2.0
 User generated content (Wisdom of crowds)
 User community determines value of web 2.0
firms
 Hackability
 Folksonomies
.

7. Kind of social media applications
 Producing texts: Blogs (sequential) or Wiki’s
(create navigation through hyperlinks)
 Microblogging
 Share non-text content (pictures, video, slides)
 Sharing bookmarks
 Tools to glue things together (the glue is often
RSS) For example: from Blog via Twitterfeed to
Twitter

8. Examples of social media in
action