'One of the bioscientists asked the data storage firm used by one of the labs recently about the costs associated with accessing data from studies conducted a few years ago. The company replied, "you wouldn’t want to pay us to do that. It would be less expensive to re-run your experiments."' Holy WTF, Batman.
See also "don't keep the raw data because if you do and we get into a patent dispute it will all be discoverable. Much cheaper to re-do experiments than pay lawyers to look at them..."
- Cameron Neylon
ah thanks, interesting to see which extensions they are using
- Mike Chelen
Noteworthy: so far, 18 summaries of articles in PLoS Biol., 12 in PLoS Med. (None in PLoS ONE).
- Jim Till
Perhaps noteworthy: the vast majority of edits in the last thirty days are by two people. It's hard to build critical mass... http://acawiki.org/index...
- Andrew Su
the site looks pretty new, sometimes starting fresh produces the best results, although it can be useful to find some existing data to import initially
- Mike Chelen
The site launched this week. The PLoS articles were seeded using the Editor Summaries that PLoS Bio and PLoS Med routinely publish
- Peter Binfield
Peter: wondering if the data was converted from another format, or does PLoS supply RDF directly? is there any description of the process used?
- Mike Chelen
We didnt work with them on this (other than to have some early meetings). I suspect they just copied and pasted... However, it can be extracted from our XML file of course.
- Peter Binfield
Yes, it's copy and paste at present. A better workflow would be a good enhancement to Semantic MediaWiki if anybody's looking for a project!
- Jodi Schneider
Ah - is that why you are collecting those old links? Was getting a little confused as to why they were popping up.
- Cameron Neylon
oh, are these old? remember hearing about the initiative some months ago, been looking for good online coverage and only found some of these resources recently
- Mike Chelen
Some of them were - classic moment of confusion, when I ask myself why I hadn't seen it before, then look at the source, realize it is me, and get really confused :-) Then I remember to check the date...
- Cameron Neylon
"Scientific Publications cover a wide variety of publishers, hosts, business models, usage models, publication stages, logical and technical presentation. Therefore it is important to learn which portions of the publication space can be and which agents want to be included in the sampling. For those willing to participate only two aspects are relevant: 1. What data needs to be gathered? 2. How can it be transferred to the statistics provider? Open-Access-Statistics (OA-S) is a joint project adressing these questions. Starting in July 2008 an infrastructure for the standardised accumulation of heterogenous web log data with an emphasis on institutional repositories will be built. In tight cooperation with the Network of Open Access Repositories (OA-N) various added value services will be made available to users."
- Mike Chelen
from Bookmarklet
Completed the questionnaire, provided links to things like http://dataportability.org, OpenID, friendfeed, etc. Have to say, though, that some of the questions were worded somewhat unclearly.
- Mr. Gunn
D0r0th34: thrilled to see existing and ongoing exploration of the topic, which is a natural extension for scholarly repositories and a crucial goal for ongoing curation. now reading one of the linked papers, "Open Access Statistics: an examination how to generate interoperable usage information from distributed open access services" (Herb, Ulrich '09) http://www.dini.de/fileadm...
- Mike Chelen
usage of open source software, and application of its principles, advances science research & publishing by allowing faster and more efficient replication and modification of new ideas
- Mike Chelen
Interested in the contrast between open science and distributed science - can you have "closed" distributed science? Or is that just collaboration?
- Richard Badge
from Nambu
"The Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) 10-Year Implementation Plan explicitly acknowledges the importance of data sharing in achieving the GEOSS vision and anticipated societal benefits. The Plan, endorsed by nearly 60 governments and the European Commission at the Third Earth Observation Summit in Brussels in 2004, highlights the following GEOSS Data Sharing Principles: 1. There will be full and open exchange of data, metadata, and products shared within GEOSS, recognizing relevant international instruments and national policies and legislation. 2. All shared data, metadata, and products will be made available with minimum time delay and at minimum cost. 3. All shared data, metadata, and products being free of charge or no more than cost of reproduction will be encouraged for research and education."
- Mike Chelen
from Bookmarklet
good to see a specific focus on "open exchange of data" and it will be interesting to hear the plans to achieve this
- Mike Chelen
"The student Right to Research Coalition, a group of national, international, and local student associations that advocate for governments, universities, and researchers to adopt Open Access practices, has now grown to include some of the most prominent student organizations from the United States and across the world. The recent addition of 8 new organizations brings the number of students represented by the coalition to over 5 million, demonstrating the broad, passionate support Open Access enjoys from the student community."
- Mike Chelen
from Bookmarklet
helps to appreciate the global reach and scale of these scientific concepts
- Mike Chelen
"Dear all, last year, Michael opened a discussion to have bibliographic information displayed in package summaries: http://lists.debian.org/msgid-s... In the discussion that followed, we talked about where to store this information, and in which format, since adding more content to the debian/control file is not an easy thing (it ‘costs’ a lot because it goes to pivotal files like the Packages.gz files on our mirrors). A four line summary is available here: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianS... This year, some progresses are being made. For the display, Andreas has modified the ‘Web sentinels’ so that they can display bibliographic informations. See http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks... for instance. But currently the limitation of the system is that the bibliographic information is in a quite remote location, in the Blends ‘tasks’ files. I am currently working on a new workflow which would help the...
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- Mike Chelen
from Bookmarklet
Science Commons Salon October 15th in Mountain View - John Wilbanks, Reid Hoffman and Joi Ito will be talking about Innovation in Open Systems. There will also be some Pech Kucha style talks given at the beginning of the evening (still settling the details on that). If you will be in the bay area on October 15th please join us! Lisa
Man, why couldn't you put it off till the next weekend when I'll be there for the Google Summer of Code summit...
- Donnie Berkholz
Donnie It would have been great timing to have it right before the Summer of Code summit - but it was so hard to find a day that John, Reid and Joi were all three available to be in the bay area that we couldn't be picky.
- Lisa Green
Totally OT, but how do you know when you've gotten comments on your posts? Do you just check back here all the time? Comments don't show in my RSS feed...
- Donnie Berkholz
Bill I would pick you up at the airport :-) Lisa
- Lisa Green
If everything goes according to schedule, my daughter will be 1 week old then. Maybe next time?
- Mr. Gunn
@Lisa: I have some time off available, but whether I can take it will depend on external factors -- I should know by the end of the week. Do you happen to know a decent hotel/motel somewhere between the airport and the LinkedIn campus?
- Bill Hooker
Bill I will look into hotels for you. It would be great if you could come! Also, we are planning a Science Commons event in Seattle for February and I'd like to talk with you about that.
- Lisa Green
Bill how about a sleeper sofa at my apartment in San Francisco?
- Lisa Green
"This talk was presented by Jean-Claude Bradley at the American Chemical Society meeting in Philadelphia on August 20, 2008. An introduction to Open Notebook Science is presented followed by an illustration of how ONS can be used in drug discovery. New data relating to the anti-malarial activity of Ugi products on 2 falcipain-2 docking sites is detailed. The docking calculations were provided by Rajarshi Guha and the enzyme and in vitro assays on Plasmodium falciparum were provided by Phil Rosenthal and Jiri Gut. Most of the syntheses were carried out by Khalid Mirza in the Bradley group."
- Mike Chelen
from Bookmarklet
"Evolution of Physical Oceanography was created to mark the career of Henry M. Stommel, the leading physical oceanographer of the 20th Century and a longtime MIT faculty member. The authors of the different chapters were asked to describe the evolution of their subject over the history of physical oceanography, and to provide a survey of the state-of-the-art of their subject as of 1980. Many of the chapters in this textbook are still up-to-date descriptions of active scientific fields, and all of them are important historical records. This textbook is made available courtesy of The MIT Press."
- Mike Chelen
from Bookmarklet
A local faculty member has a bee in his bonnet to build one. If I can find models, I'd like to. If I can't... well, there's probably a reason. ;)
- D0r0th34
for fun, did a google search (of course you already have!) and found your question cited in a website -- I'd not seen it before (no surprise), but also cannot seem to figure out who it belongs to: http://alltwopointzero.com/
- Mickey Schafer
OSU Computer Science Senior Capstone class. >> >> A web site has been setup to give you more information, and let you >> enter and edit project proposals: >> >> http://cs.oregonstate.edu/capston... >>