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Jon Tennant and the unsustainable virus of closed science @Protohedgehog #JonTennant

/ citizen science, corwdsearcher, open access, open books, open data, open education, open journals / Commenti disabilitati su Jon Tennant and the unsustainable virus of closed science @Protohedgehog #JonTennant

In this unforgettable year for the number of deaths of the pandemic the academic and scientific world loses a protagonist and champion in its professional field, a victim escaped the CoronaVirus but not to a fate as tragic as incomprehensible for a society like ours, unable to open its eyes to a new approach to sustainable research and science freely shared with citizens. April 9 is the 100th day of leap year 2020, while the WHO has more than 1,500,000 Covid-19 infections and at least 95,000 victims, in Bali, Indonesia, the scientist Jon Tennnant falls victim to a motorcycle accident.

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In today’s society, unfortunately, few people are aware of his commitment and his battles for the opening of data, for the sharing of research methods, for the accessibility of publications produced in research institutions and universities, funded by citizens who repay both those who produce content and those who market it on the web and on paper.



Open Science MOOC is one of Jon’s masterpieces, an online course open to all to involve citizens in Open Science.
OpenScienceMooc.eu/


The Open Science movement has its roots in the “Bermuda Principles”: in 1996 the scientific community imposed rules to publicly share the results of research on the human genome. Two years later the “Open Source Initiative” movement was born, from which derive today’s myriads of open Apps and Software, including Linux/Unix. Following in these footsteps the scientific community founded the OA (open access) Initiative, with the manifesto signed in Budapest in 2002, the guidelines to open scientific, medical and health content to the Internet community are disseminated. The cornerstone of OA is to provide the public with free and unlimited access to academic research, especially if publicly funded, multiplying the possibilities for dissemination and scientific collaboration.

This recent paper summarizes the spirit with which Jon Tennant participated in Open Science:


Traditional methods of scholarly publishing and communication are ineffective in meeting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SARS-CoV-2pandemic has demonstrated that, in times of need, the global research community can activate and pool its knowledge and resources to collaborate on solving problems. The use of innovative Web-based technologies, including open source software, data-sharing archives, open collaboration methods, and the liberation of thousands of relevant research articles from proprietary sources show us that the fundamental components of a fully open system are readily available, technologically efficient and cost-effective. If we are to achieve the SDGs by 2030, systematic reform and explicit adoption of open scholarship strategies at scale is necessary. We propose that the United Nations and parallel entities take a position of leadership by creating or funding an organization or federated alliance of organizations to implement these reforms.

The activist has left to all citizens of the world the inestimable legacy of Citizen Science, with the paradox of not appearing in WIKIPEDIA throughout his career, as short as it is precious for the world of knowledge and scientific research. It will remain forever his contribution and his motto:

CREATING BETTER SCIENCE FOR A BETTER SOCIETY

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Jon Tennant founded PaleorXiv portal non-profit paleontologist community for full paper sharing

Let’s share his scientific production available on



The (R)evolution of Open Science

https://zenodo.org

Needless to say, the virus of “lack of knowledge” or “ignorance” buries mankind, victim of the unbearable closure of science.

OPENEDU: #3MAY 2019 #worldpressfreedomday

/ citizen science, corwdsearcher, open books, open education / Commenti disabilitati su OPENEDU: #3MAY 2019 #worldpressfreedomday

Every year, 3 May is a date which celebrates the fundamental principles of press freedom, to evaluate press freedom around the world, to defend the media from attacks on their independence and to pay tribute to journalists who have lost their lives in the exercise of their profession. World Press Freedom Day was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in 1993 following a Recommendation adopted at the twenty-sixth session of UNESCO’s General Conference in 1991. This in turn was a response to a call by African journalists who in 1991 produced the landmark Windhoek Declaration (link is external) on media pluralism and independence.

At the core of UNESCO’s mandate is freedom of the press and freedom of expression. UNESCO believes that these freedoms allow for mutual understanding to build a sustainable peace.

It serves as an occasion to inform citizens of violations of press freedom – a reminder that in dozens of countries around the world, publications are censored, fined, suspended and closed down, while journalists, editors and publishers are harassed, attacked, detained and even murdered.

It is a date to encourage and develop initiatives in favour of press freedom, and to assess the state of press freedom worldwide.

3 May acts as a reminder to governments of the need to respect their commitment to press freedom and is also a day of reflection among media professionals about issues of press freedom and professional ethics. Just as importantly, World Press Freedom Day is a day of support for media which are targets for the restraint, or abolition, of press freedom. It is also a day of remembrance for those journalists who lost their lives in the pursuit of a story.

OPENEDU: #TheWebConf 2019 #MisinfoWorkshop2019 International Workshop on Misinformation, Computational Fact-Checking and Credible Web @TheWebConf #14May @SanFrancisco

/ citizen science, corwdsearcher, open access, open books, open data, open education, open journals / Commenti disabilitati su OPENEDU: #TheWebConf 2019 #MisinfoWorkshop2019 International Workshop on Misinformation, Computational Fact-Checking and Credible Web @TheWebConf #14May @SanFrancisco

May 14, 2019, San Francisco, CA, USACo-located with The Web Conference 2019

 International Workshop on Misinformation, Computational Fact-Checking and Credible Web

Our society is struggling with an unprecedented amount of falsehood which harms wealth, democracy, and health.

Debunking misinformation and disinformation calls for interdisciplinary collaboration of and advancements in multiple areas, including journalism, communication studies, law and public policy, psychology, and political science. Computing technology plays a crucial role in it. The last few years have witnessed a substantial growth in efforts at computational fact-checking, of which many are data-driven, AI-powered, and include human in the loop. These efforts tackle various fronts, such as the detection of fabricated news, rumors, and spam on social media, automation in fact-checking, flagging clickbait articles, and discovering fake accounts and malicious social media bots.

Advancements in algorithms and AI have raised significant ethics concerns regarding fairness, transparency, trust, and misuse. The concerns are particularly pertinent to fact-checking—while fact-checkers discern truth from falsehood, who is there to check them? Furthermore, the harm of misuse of AI is already manifested in this arena. For instance, creators of falsehoods may optimize for their objectives using approaches steered by algorithms. Finally, maintaining a high bar of ethics in research itself, particularly ensuring the reproducibility of research results, is vital to the health of the enterprise.

The success of tackling misinformation lies not only in methodology and technology but also education. To help cultivate a society that is more robust to falsehoods, to break “filter bubbles” and “echo chambers”, we must raise the awareness of all aspects about misinformation and we must train a generation of Web users that are well versed in media literacy, data literacy, and logic and fallacy.

Accepted Papers
  • Examining the Roles of Automation, Crowds and Professionals Towards Sustainable Fact-checking

Naeemul Hassan (University of Mississippi), Mohammad Yousuf (University of Oklahoma), Md Mahfuzul Haque (University of Mississippi), Javier A. Suarez Rivas (University of Mississippi), Md Khadimul Islam (The University of Mississippi)

  • Red Bots Do It Better: Comparative Analysis of Social Bot Partisan Behavior

Luca Luceri (University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, and University of Bern), Ashok Deb (University of Southern California), Adam Badawy (University of Southern California), Emilio Ferrara (University of Southern California)

  • Neural Check-Worthiness Ranking with Weak Supervision: Finding Sentences for Fact-Checking

Casper Hansen (University of Copenhagen), Christian Hansen (University of Copenhagen), Stephen Alstrup (University of Copenhagen), Jakob Grue Simonsen (University of Copenhagen), Christina Lioma (University of Copenhagen)

  • A Linked Data Model for Facts, Statements and Beliefs

Ludivine Duroyon (France Univ Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA), François Goasdoué (France Univ Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA), Ioana Manolescu (France Inria and LIX (UMR 7161, CNRS and Ecole Polytechnique))

  • A Study of Misinformation in WhatsApp groups with a focus on the Brazilian Presidential Elections

Caio Machado (University of Oxford), Beatriz Kira (University of São Paulo), Vidya Narayanan (University of Oxford), Bence Kollanyi (University of Oxford), Philip Howard (University of Oxford)

  • A Topic-Agnostic Approach to Identify Fake News Pages

Sonia Castelo Quispe (New York University), Thais Almeida (Federal University of Amazonas), Anas Elghafari (New York University), Aécio Santos (New York University), Kien Pham (New York University), Eduardo Nakamura (Federal University of Amazonas), Juliana Freire (New York University)

  • Institutional Counter-disinformation Strategies in a Networked Democracy

Jonathan Stray (Columbia University)

  • Differences in Health News from Reliable and Unreliable Media

Sameer Dhoju (The University of Mississippi), Md Main Uddin Rony (The University of Mississippi), Muhammad Ashad Kabir (Charles Sturt University), Naeemul Hassan (The University of Mississippi)

  • Misinfosec: Applying Information Security Paradigms to Misinformation Campaigns

Christopher R. Walker (Marvelous AI, San Francisco, CA), Sara-Jayne Terp (SOFWERX, Tampa, FL), Pablo C. Breuer (U.S. Special Operations Command), Courtney Crooks (Georgia Tech Research Institute)

Invited Posters (all accepted papers + the following)

  • When Algorithms Assign Fact-Checks to Online Stories and News Publishers: A Sociotechnical Perspective

Emma Lurie (Wellesley College), Eni Mustafaraj (Wellesley College)

  • Online Misinformation: From the Deceiver to the Victim

Francesca Spezzano (Boise State University), Anu Shrestha (Boise State University)

  • Building Consequential Rankings

Behzad Tabibianf (MPI-IS & MPI-SWS), Vicenç Gomez (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Abir De (MPI-SWS), Bernhard Schölkopf (MPI-IS), Manuel Gomez Rodriguez (MPI-SWS)

May 14, 2019, San Francisco, CA, USACo-located with The Web Conference 2019

 International Workshop on Misinformation, Computational Fact-Checking and Credible Web

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Crowdsearcher??

 

….is a blog

…is a space social interaction between citizens and BIBLIOVOLONTARI, but above all, 

…is a practice of research data and information, applying the instructions of the Manifesto “How to Spot Fake News”disclosed by’ (IFLA international Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) , to facilitate access to information manager: sharing of verification strategies, search tools and reliable sources at national and international level , based on the principles of accuracy, traceability, independence, legality, impartiality

 

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“Librarians are very proud to be the people who are located at the intersection of knowledge and questions that people have,” says Harger . “What we have behind us is the knowledge of all mankind, yet we have not used in a way we have changed our actions.”

The editors “BiblioVolontari” are librarians and archivists, academic research specialists and not only (for free) dedicated to collaboration on social networks to share:

– Institutional sources certified at the national / international level,
– search tools to free and open access,
– verification strategies
– popular events that facilitate information literacy and media literacy

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