...The most striking element of both the poster and the site is a multicolored circular chart that looks something like a zodiac or gaming wheel. (See bottom of this article for a larger version than appears on top.) It flashes by in the opening seconds of the aforementioned video, too fast for the viewer to notice that it is divided into six sectors: discovery, analysis, writing, publication, outreach and assessment. There are little logos in each, representing digital tools and products. You find the Google Docs icon in "analysis," for example, and Zotero in "writing," while academia.edu appears in "outreach."
It's the Great Cycle of Research Life, so to speak...
...a typology of scholarly workflows, ranging from the neo-Luddite to the way-early adopter. "[W]e defined 'traditional' as a type of workflow that essentially would not have altered much from that of the print age, 'modern' as making use of online tools that enable researchers to consume information/functionality (roughly Web 1.0), 'innovative' as using more recent tools that enable online discussion, collaboration and active contribution (roughly Web 2.0) and 'experimental' as using tools that are currently being developed and have yet to establish themselves ('bleeding edge')."
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