77 posts tagged curation

I’ve promised to write a chapter with the provisional title ‘Biomedical curating and the participatory web’ for our planned joint project anthology with the (also provisional) title Curating Biomedicine: Collecting, writing and displaying contemporary medicine.

Tranche sounds interesting. This possibly over-ambitious sound-bite from its web page: "This project's goal is to solve the problems commonly associated with sharing scientific data, letting you and your collaborators focus on using the data." In effect it is an encrypted, highly distributed file

… or, A Semantic Web for science? It’s clear that the million or so scientific articles published each year contain lots of science. Most of that science is accessible to scientists in the relevant discipline. Some may be accessible to interested amateurs.

Each month I’m eagerly waiting for my copy of The Scientist to appear in my mail box, because the magazine runs a page on an idea, invention or object that has been significant in the history of 20C life sciences (a kind of nostalgia page for scientists — very sweet).

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Recently I posted about our intention to post the full Molbank articles on ChemSpider. PMR commented on my potential over-extension of their Open Access nature: “PMR: I also support publishers who make their material available.

In January of each year, Nucleic Acids Research (NAR) publishes a special issue on databases for molecular biology research. To be considered, databases have to be open access (they specifically mean browsable without a username, password or payment, although it is possible there are conditions).

OR2008 - Presentations available The Open Repositories conference (OR2008) repository is available at http://pubs.or08.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ as a permanent record of the conference activities. The repository contains papers, presentations and poster artwork for 144 different conference contributions

DCC News (http://www.dcc.ac.uk/, news item visible on 21 April 2008) draws our attention to this interesting paper: Comments are requested on a draft document from the presenters of the "Research Assessment Experience" session at the EPrints User Group meeting at OR08.

The Brooklyn museum is giving online users the ability to evaluate photos for an exhibition on the "Changing Face of Brooklyn". What's interesting is that they poll the evaluator's level of knowledge about art, and intend to compare the top photos of the 'novices' with those of the 'experts'.