scholarly wikis
Slides are up - on the wiki, that is
Thu, 06/05/2010 - 3:25am | by danielLater today, I will attend the Semantic Web Day in Leipzig and give a talk on Integrating wikis with scientific workflows. Perhaps appropriate to the topic, I did not prepare slides but a set of wiki pages.
Three avenues to support open approaches to science - the cases of funding, data acquisition and knowledge curation
Tue, 23/02/2010 - 1:06am | by danielToday, I received an email from the Open Society Institute's Information Initiative:
We'd like to ask you to think about two to three emerging opportunities for--or threats to--open society institutions and values that you are aware of which are not receiving sufficient attention and where a funder like OSI could usefully intervene. We encourage you to suggest issues that are still very much on the horizon; there need not be an obvious solution to the points you raise.
I know that the OSI had and has many interesting projects running (also in regions and cultures normally off the radar, including some of those dear to me) but I have often (not just jokingly) taken its abbreviation to stand for "Open Science Institute", and so I take the liberty here to shrink the space of possible replies by concentrating on openness in science, anyway the most prominent topic in my blog.
My intuitive response would be that several inefficiencies in our current knowledge creation and curation systems cry for a test run of open approaches. Not sure whether I can distill this down to three issues, but let's get started by listing some of the ideas, and I hope that you can then help me structure and adapt them appropriately. To facilitate the discussion, I will resort to Cameron's depiction of the research cycle:
Re: Using Wikipedia
Tue, 08/12/2009 - 12:33pm | by danielThis comment was originally posted as http://gfulibrarian.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/using-wikipedia/#comment-10 but seems to have been labeled as spam, probably due to the more than two links I added. So I repost it here:
Nice summary, but I would like to add that both models can and do indeed evolve. For instance, the "does not change" aspect is not true for journals like PLoS ONE (where articles can be annotated by any registered user of the site) and Scholarpedia (which is a scholarly review journal published on a wiki platform, hence with updatability).
