Comments on: Data: Gold in the archives http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2006/06/05/data-gold-in-the-archives/ Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:41:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: AJ Chen http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2006/06/05/data-gold-in-the-archives/comment-page-1/#comment-1105 AJ Chen Tue, 12 Dec 2006 20:42:17 +0000 #comment-1105 Opening up source data on the web by researchers themselves is what's needed. The open data are freely shared and thus will reduce the time of repeating experiments. To encourage researchers to open raw experiment data, easy-to-use web publishing tools need to be available for end users (i.e. researchers). And community search engines need to be built so that researchers can see immediate benefits from the search engines as they explore the open data approach. The scientific publishing task under W3C HCLS group is exploring semantic web for open data. Demo for open data tool and search engine is available at web2express.org. AJ Chen Opening up source data on the web by researchers themselves is what’s needed. The open data are freely shared and thus will reduce the time of repeating experiments. To encourage researchers to open raw experiment data, easy-to-use web publishing tools need to be available for end users (i.e. researchers). And community search engines need to be built so that researchers can see immediate benefits from the search engines as they explore the open data approach.

The scientific publishing task under W3C HCLS group is exploring semantic web for open data. Demo for open data tool and search engine is available at web2express.org.

AJ Chen

]]> By: Research Cooperative http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2006/06/05/data-gold-in-the-archives/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Research Cooperative Sat, 07 Oct 2006 23:36:49 +0000 #comment-44 The volume of new data is alarming, in some areas of research, but also alarming is the lack of new data, in many other areas of research. The crisis lies in the question of how to recognise priorities in research, and how to balance the benefits of centralised large-scale science, and decentralised small-scale science. The internet in theory should allow small-scale research projects to link up to related projects world-wide, and thus achieve more effect. One starting point would be to comprehensively index existing research journals and newsetters worldwide, their approximate geographical reach (distribution), and the contact details for submissions and back issues. Effective publication, and effective data-mining, are two sides of the same coin. The volume of new data is alarming, in some areas of research, but also alarming is the lack of new data, in many other areas of research. The crisis lies in the question of how to recognise priorities in research, and how to balance the benefits of centralised large-scale science, and decentralised small-scale science. The internet in theory should allow small-scale research projects to link up to related projects world-wide, and thus achieve more effect.

One starting point would be to comprehensively index existing research journals and newsetters worldwide, their approximate geographical reach (distribution), and the contact details for submissions and back issues. Effective publication, and effective data-mining, are two sides of the same coin.

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