scienceapps

The Research 2.0 Concept Model above is an evolution of the Academic Library 2.0 Concept Models developed for my Master's Paper (http://mchabib.com/2006... ). While the original model primarily focused on academic library services for students, the new model focuses on services for researchers. Like in the original models, the top represents communication spaces grounded in physical space, while the bottom mirrors this in the online realm. Two ends of the spectrum are informal communications and formal communications. My argument is that Research 2.0 falls somewhere between these extremes. A full presentation is located here: http://www.slideshare.net/habibmi... - Michael Habib

Interesting social status implications here, especially with the second model. The more robust both sides of the scholar2.0 identity components (UGC + trad), the "deeper" the 2.0 identity (think tag clouds as the metaphor here). Or, perhaps color combos is a better metaphor, with schol.identity2.0 being a mix of UCG (say, "yellow"), trad (say "blue") and combo being "green" -- the shade... more... - Mickey Schafer

Please post only to relevant groups. I don't see how this is related to Ruby or bioinformatics. - Neil Saunders

I didn't find it, I made it. But I agree, it isn't properly filed. apologies. - Ben Woodcroft

Somewhat bizarre article on how MS filed to patent sequence clustering two years ago. For those of us using OpenOffice, there is the additional weirdness of MS granted a patent for using XML to store documents, while being sued for intellectual infringement of the same. Hat tip to Andor Kiss - Iddo Friedberg from Bookmarklet

And here is the patent application. http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2009... - Iddo Friedberg

See also this article in Science: http://bit.ly/2VHMKH - Enro

Evangelos Pafilis1,3, Seán I O'Donoghue1,3, Lars J Jensen1,2,3, Heiko Horn1, Michael Kuhn1, Nigel P Brown1 & Reinhard Schneider1 European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany. NNF Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. These authors contributed equally. e-mail: contact@reflect.ws IntroductionTo the editor: Anyone who regularly reads life science literature often comes across names of genes, proteins or small molecules that they would like to know more about. To make this process easier, we have developed a new, free service called Reflect (http://reflect.ws) that can be installed as a plug-in to web browsers, such as Firefox or Internet Explorer. Reflect tags gene, protein and small-molecule names in any web page, typically within a few seconds and without affecting document layout. - Maxine from Bookmarklet

There may also be a REST interface. If we make this then it will be build on top of the SOAP interface (i.e. all REST calls will be translated to SOAP calls). I hope that we can do this in an automated manner based on the WSDL. In any case, this implies that the REST interface will be made only after we are done with the SOAP interface. - Lars Juhl Jensen

Sharing this as it is a slightly less specialist post than some of the posts I've read about Google Wave (ie people like me can understand it). - Maxine

The enterprise version of what we should probably doing to record data analysis and data production properly - Cameron Neylon from Bookmarklet

Quote: "Last week Microsoft will start inviting users into Vine, a public-service tool that will be especially useful during disasters. In case of an emergency or everyday life, Vine will be a multi-platform, ad-free method of staying in touch with networks. Once Vine is launched it has the potential to become a very powerful communication platform. Last week I had a phone call with Tammy Savage, the GM of Microsoft’s Public Safety Initiative. Vine's primary goal is to connect you with a small group of people, reach them wherever they are, and allow you to determine what conditions are like where they are. Vine will do this by letting you connect to it as you desire. Initially that means Facebook, LinkedIn, email, SMS, and the Vine Windows client. " - Maxine from Bookmarklet

Quote (by Tony Hammond): "We're pleased to announce that Nature.com now has an OAI-PMH interface. This service implements the Protocol for Metadata Harvesting from the Open Archives Initiative. This means that the Nature.com platform can now be queried by item, by title or by date range and that structured data records will be returned. All articles from over 150 titles can be accessed and dating back to 1869 for Nature magazine." - Maxine

Quote: "The announcement, expected Monday, means developers can build services that access the photos, videos, notes and comments users upload to Facebook, with users' permission. That's a big change for the social-networking site, which has exercised tight control over the look and feel of its service and how developers can interact with it. What I cannot figure out is whether this means Facebook is going to solve its linking problem. I've complained about it before, but the big issue with Facebook, to my mind, is that it does not play well with others when it comes to linking on the open web. In fact, it's damn hard to even link *inside* Facebook, never mind sending links *from* other services (IE Twitter) into your Facebook status feed (you can't)." - Maxine from Bookmarklet

That's one of my main issues with it, too, besides the annoying interface and all that. I can't believe they'd get by without links, the most important things on the web. - Mr. Gunn

For instance, if you want to earch for the gene "alpha synuclein" using the GenBank ID CR457058. The link structure should be this one http://www.novoseek.com/AccessP... - novoseek

A new tool for managing search for academic resources. Author is looking for comments. - Cameron Neylon - Richard Akerman

Quote: "This morning marks the launch of ExecTweets, a platform my company has built working with Microsoft, its sponsor, and Twitter. I'm proud of the work here, it reflects a lot of thinking about how to use conversations like Twitter to fuel what I hope is a value-added experience. In this case, we're filtering for business-realated content from senior execs in various industries, like retail, healthcare, government, and more, and we've created a platform for community conversation, voting, input, and recommendations. (FM blog post here)." - Maxine from Bookmarklet

JB says: "We hope to do a lot more projects along these lines, please let me know what you think, and how we can improve them." - Maxine

It's Twitter, except with Microsoft ads and the assumption that "top business execs" have more to say of more interest, impact and importance than others. What are the odds any of those executweeters are going to respond to you? So it's broadcast, with authority attached to position and power, and ads. How very "new media". - Richard Akerman

Discussion on functionality of ClaimID - reshared to start aggregating all the openID stuff here - Cameron Neylon

Don't think so, Jan. - Maxine

Service that provides a "publication record on the web" doesn't offer OpenID but would be close to what was proposed if it did - Cameron Neylon

The main discussion on my original blog post on an OpenID based system - aggregating into one place - Cameron Neylon

Oops--here are the links http://blogs.sun.com/erwann/ http://delicious.com - Hope Leman

ResearchGATE gets a facelift - Cameron Neylon

Cameron--would you please put a Twitter button on your fascinating blog so that we can foloow you more easily and send news of posts by your around the Web? - Hope Leman

why do PR and reporter people still love putting 2.0 after everything? - Richard Akerman

because they can't count to 3.0? (ducks) - Cameron Neylon