I do not like mess.

One of our DITA session was about Archiving Twitter with a Google Spreadsheet. To do such a thing we have to go to Hawksey Tags in the first place.

http://tags.hawksey.info/get-tags/ Accessed 8/12/2014

 In the handout guidelines it was said to use Old Sheets TAGS but after taking a screenshot (and experiencing some error) I decided to go crazy and use New Sheets TAGS. To my surprise there was not much difference between them. Pictures below reveal that there is almost almost no difference in New and Old Sheets.

 

To create Twitter Archive I copied a spreadsheet given by google and used same parameters as advised by Ernesto.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuxqxcATBAe3dFJWSEJkbDU2Um5WY1JaZkRjWnpnelE#gid=121 Accessed 8/12/2014

It takes a while to connect everything properly – signing into google, authorising the app,giving it a permission to run and connecting to Consumer Key and Consumer Secret, creating a new folder in google drive. After all of this is done, google spreadsheet works instantly using Twitter’s API and provided data. TAGS process data into diagrams or tables depending on indication. Variable possibilities of metrics are accessible at different spreadsheet tabs: Readme/Settings, Archive, Summary, Dashboard. When opening spreadsheet there are only two spreadsheets – Readme/Settings which is the main page and Archive, which is the second sheet. Other sheets like Summary and Dashboard can be easily created in TAGS with one click only which is very handy and neat. I like when things are in order and having different metrics contained in different sheets makes my heart feel happy. Exporting data into a spreadsheet is always a good idea because as there is a countless number of sorting that can be performed on data using them.

It is very interesting how easily Twitter data can be exported and measured. Exploring and archiving Tweets is very easy and can bring many benefits. I do not like mess and overload. Unfortunately social media overload us with information that is not necessarily needed.   I like when data I need is neatly sorted and easily searchable. I find spreadsheets the best way to keep data in order and would recommend it to everyone. Great thing I have not mentioned so far is that, not only your own Tweets but others as well. Hints on Twitter accounts that should be archived by librarian for their own professional use and development can be find here:
http://hacklibraryschool.com/2014/05/27/hashtags/

Try to explore it yourself and have fun!

 

Altmetrics – new possibilities.

At one of our DITA lectures we learnt about Altmetrics. Altmetrics are essentially alternative metrics of measuring scholarly impact. Measuring has been based previously based on number of times an article or paper is cited in other articles but since Information Era traditional method had to become accessible faster and easier. As a response to that demand a group of scientists-researchers created Altmetric App which won Elsevier’s App for Science competition prize and won. Mission of project is: ‘to track and analyse the online activity around scholarly literature’ [http://www.altmetric.com/about.php, accessed 3/12/2014].

What does Altmetrics do? Altmetric website offers a range of products:
– Altmetric Explorer which is a web application that helps to see all of the attention surrounding papers
– Altmetric Bookmarklet is a free browser tool that lets instantly get article level metrics for any recent paper
– Altmetric API an application programming interface that enables to enrich pages with article level metrics data
– Altmetric Badges are ready-to-use embeddable badges for article pages that let you showcase impact in a beautiful way

Altmetric.com/whatwedo Accessed 3/12/2014.

Altmetrics created a great tool to cluster digital mentions of articles at social media sites, newspapers, government policy documents. Citation score is based on three factors which are: volume, sources and authors. A very important note here is that, the system works live and all articles published before it was launched in July 2011 do not have any transient links (ie. tweets) counted in the score.

After logging in you can ‘Explore the data’ what means we can precisely search for articles to look up their altmetrics score which is visualised by so called ‘Donuts’.

Altmetric.com/explorer 3/12/2014

We can also save a search for future, explore it into excel and process it further or set up daily or weekly notifications regarding the search. Below are my saved searches.

Altmetric.com 3/12/2014

I find Altmetric.com to be a great tool for nowadays research. In times of digitised science it is just another great step ahead of LIS  services accessible 24/7. Altmetrics team is also involved into a number of projects about Altmetrics itself and it’s influence on modern research.

References:

Priego, E. (2014) Digging into Altmetrics Data [Lecture] INM348 DITA week 6. Given at City University of London on 10/11/2014.

Priego, E. (2013) Strategies to get your research mentioned online, [http://figshare.com/articles/Strategies_to_Get_Your_Research_Mentioned_Online/106950] Accessed 3/12/2014.