Hi all, some of you have already seen this, but I am working with Daniel Mietchen on a Open grant proposal writing exercise, which is rather interesting effort, given than applying for EC funding is normally behind doors, and this feels rather exposed :)
With this project we like to get funding to create a research community around Wikidata, the CCZero-waivered knowledgebase associated with Wikipedia. We have selected some domains, and metabolomics is one of this. A primary goal is to use Wikidata as a platform for data integration. One task I have written up here, is aiming at a BODR release (which is CCZero since release 10) based on Wikidata content, rather than our custom resources. There are tasks around putting BODR data into Wikidata, quality assurance etc, and note that Wikidata is aimed to be a secondary resource, addressing the curated aspects. Of course, coming to a good description of chemicals is another, and Wikipedia is currently typically mixing up specific graphs with more general concepts. They all need support, and that will be part of the work too. Another aspect is that we aim to make Wikidata a node in the LOD cloud, and with small chemicals in mind, will link to as many semantic chemical resources as possible, including at least ChemSpider and PubChem, both of which have many identifiers in Wikipedia/Wikidata already. The project will be very Open as you can expect, and we aim at a strong community engagement. There is a lot of mutual benefit. The proposal deadline is this Tuesday, and this afternoon Daniel will discuss this project in Oxford at the Force2015 meeting, so if you have interest, join his session. Grtz, Egon -- E.L. Willighagen Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT Maastricht University (http://www.bigcat.unimaas.nl/) Homepage: http://egonw.github.com/ LinkedIn: http://se.linkedin.com/in/egonw Blog: http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/ PubList: http://www.citeulike.org/user/egonw/tag/papers ORCID: 0000-0001-7542-0286 ImpactStory: https://impactstory.org/EgonWillighagen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming! The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list Blueobelisk-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss
