Glad to host the first CodeforScience event in Turkey.
If you haven't seen yet, checked the new Lipid Structure App at ScienceDirect and Scopus. It's a great example how an "open platform" can create domain specific solutions collaborating with scientific community. These are still first steps for what we are creating for a new scholarly communication and discovery platform...
What a year, 100+ solutions "built by researchers for researchers" in an STM platform and what an effort in the last two months of our team and the developers creating these solutions.
Many thanks to everyone -students, librarians, developers, researchers, scientists- in participating in this new ecosystem and bringing your innovations and solutions.
Happy 2012.
Finally all the API, opening up, open up applications, mashups, applicationmarketplace, widgets tags that you have been seen in the past few years came alive early Sunday morning, go check-it out
This is a new publishing ecosystem and a new innovation playground for the whole developer community -researchers, librarians, scientists, developers, start-ups- go start coding, collaborating, innovating to create apps that will help the scientific and research community.
Exciting and appy times
OCLC brings library developer community together to create new tools on top of OCLC APIs
"This is such a great way to bring the library development community together," explained Roy Tennant, one of the founders of the OCLC Developer Network. "We are so pleased with the creativity of the implementations and expect the tools created these two days to continue delivering long-term value for libraries and library users around the world." Via OCLC
The above figure created by Tim McCormick in "A Web Services Taxonomy: not all about the data" should make us think of what we can do to move our products to the "high value transactional" quadrant. Opening up and creativity from the development community will be key elements of developing these high value transactional applications.
It appears that Facebook will let developers to build services on top of its platform
"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." WSJ
What's your opening up strategy?
"Microbloging platforms and other tools for videos, podcasts, and virtual environments provide an untapped potential for science conferences."
"A new appraoch to conference reporting" by Neil Saunders, Pedro Beltrão, Lars Jensen, Daniel Jurczak, Roland Krause, Michael Kuhn,
Shirley Wu
After the Grand Challenge, Elsevier Article 2.0 is another initiative in "user contribution"
An insighful talk by Carole Goble who is a professor in the the School of Computer Science in the University of Manchester
She touches to some very important key topics like: growth of scientific data and datasets, linking from full-text journals to database and multi-media content, increasing collaboration in research, open science, services, APIs and science mashups (including a Scopus example)
After arts and science faculty, Harvard Law becomes the first law school to go with open access.
to a browser near you, something that will reveal insights and solutions from billions of documents
"Harvard University's arts and sciences faculty may vote today on a plan that could alter the landscape of academia by encouraging professors to publish research online rather than only in scholarly journals."The debate over where research gets published pits people who say it should be publicly accessible against those who say bypassing journals and their peer-review process might harm the quality of academic work. Harvard's decision may influence other schools, said Harry Lewis, a professor of computer science at the university.
``This is one of those situations where Harvard really has an opportunity to be a worthy leader in academia, really champion something that makes all kinds of sense for the good of the world,'' Lewis said in a telephone interview today. via Bloomberg
Where ever they are published we still need a way to get the "insights" out of these published materials to find the "solutions" to our questions, and support our decision making process in R&D
Here is a good example from Harper's on how semantic web can enhance information delivery and brings insights. If you have subscription, read the "Semantic Web in Action" at Scientific American. (Indeed this is available on the web in you search a bit heard)You'll find many interesting cases studies and companies who are prototyping and deploying semantic web applications. If I were running an online journal delivery platform in STM publishing , I would definitely allocate some resources to integrate semantic web applications in it. You may want to listen to John Udell's interviewwith Richard Wallis who is a technology evangelist for Talis.
US online advertising spending is projected to be $42B in 2011. This can be an opportunity to explore "different pricing models" in accessing to fee based content. OncologyStat is a good example of this. Who knows may be our customers would not mind to see ads similar to what Newsweek is doing when they use our products as long as the ads are relevant, not intrusive and the institutions were getting a share of the ad revenues.
Some hype and questions about Google's Open Social. Will be interesting to see if Nature Network will join this initiative? or will there be a new comer who will suck all the profile information from these social networks and create a new scientific network?
PLoS new hub is another way to create a dynamic and interactive community in is specialized topic. Register users will be able to rate, annotate and discuss articles.
"Currently, the PLoS Hub for Clinical Trials features articles originally published in PLoS Clinical Trials, along with clinical trials articles from PLoS ONE.In the future, this new resource will expand to include articles from all the PLoS titles that publish clinical trials. It will also feature open-access articles from other journals plus user-generated content." via bbmg
This April in celebration of 75th anniversary,ICSU (International Council for Science) brought together 147 young scientists from 71 different countries to discuss global scientific challenges. The discussions were around four topics:
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