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2007-04-27

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Scholarpedia: A Citizendium that actually works?

Articles are written by experts (and it seems they're getting the top people, e.g. Geoffrey Hinton), peer-reviewed and, importantly, curated:

'[create Sigmund Freud] wrote "Psychoanalysis" and [create Albert Einstein] wrote "Space-Time" for the 13th edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica almost 100 years ago. If Britannica had the feature of curatorship, the best experts of today would be competing with each other for the honor to be curators of Freud's and Einstein's articles. The goal of Scholarpedia is to identify and convince today's Einsteins and Freuds to write articles on their fundamental discoveries, so that 100 years from now the best experts will be willing to maintain and update the articles through the process of curatorship.'

2007-04-27-revengeOfThePeer

Peter Murray-Rust: "Our thesis is that the current scientific literature, were it to be presented in semantically accessible form, contains huge amounts of undiscovered science. However the apathy of the academic, scientific and information communities coupled with the indifference or even active hostility and greed of many publishers renders literature-data-driven science still inaccessible." [ Ø D/HUB • ]

"[A]bout 2 million chemical compounds are published each year (about half in patents) with insufficient semantics, metadata or hyperstructure."

'It should now be possible to publish a fairly complete scientific record of an experiment, yet the current publication process continues to emphasize the "article" at the expense of the data. [...] [T]he data are often missing or so emasculated as to be useless. It is the film review without access to the film.'

"Bioscience is one of the best examples of data-driven science and many bioinformatics laboratories do much science without ever going near a laboratory."

"[...] [A]nnotation is not absolute - our human-human survey shows that 90% agreement on chemical entity identification is probably the maximum achievable."

2007-04-27-dataPathic