Quality Assurance of Knowledge
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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
What is “quality” ?
Subjective feeling or objective fact?
Endless attempts to measure (REF, RQF, etc)
Size? Depth? Relevance?
Why does it matter?
Effectiveness, efficiency
Respect, reputation
Authority?
www.rin.ac.uk/social-media-guide
How should we measure “quality”?
Funding?Ethical approvalPublication - peer reviewCitation“Impact”Social:Crowdsourcing – serendipitous discovery, tagging (Everything is Miscellaneous)
It’s not information overload,it’s filter failure
When?
Pre or post publication?
Filter on the way out –
conventional peer review
is based on a scarcity model
The Digital Scholar
Where?
Journals (online, eToCs, RSS) – filtered content
Tools – many examples:
• Social networks – Twitter as Librarian?
• Wikis – collaborative knowledge building
• Social bookmarking, citation & annotation
Who?
Your Personal Learning Network (PLN)
- the people who filter for you.
- you’re only as smart as your network?
Loss of authority?
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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