[GOAL] Re: Wikipedia founder to help in [UK] government's research scheme

[Dana Roth]

I share Stevan’s concern  ….  As an aside, WikiProteins apparently is not 
a
journal (the link given by Peter is to the journal … Genome Biology).

 

The Genome Biology web page has a link to WikiProteins which is self-described
as a ‘community database’ … at:  
http://genomebiology.com/2008/9/5/R89#sec2
   and is still in beta.

 

“WikiProteins enables community annotation in a Wiki-based system. Extracts of
major data sources have been fused into an editable environment that links out
to the original sources. Data from community edits create automatic copies of
the original data. Semantic technology captures concepts co-occurring in one
sentence and thus potential factual statements. In addition, indirect
associations between concepts have been calculated. We call on a 'million minds'
to annotate a 'million concepts' and to collect facts from the literature with
the reward of collaborative knowledge discovery. The system is available for
beta testing at http://www.wikiprofessional.org webcite. “

 

Dana L. Roth
Millikan Library / Caltech 1-32
1200 E. California Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91125
626-395-6423  fax 626-792-7540
dzr...@library.caltech.edu
http://library.caltech.edu/collections/chemistry.htm

 

From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of
Peter Murray-Rust
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 6:35 AM
To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)
Subject: [GOAL] Re: Wikipedia founder to help in [UK] government's research
scheme

 

I very much welcome this appointment. He is no stranger to scholpub - here is an
example of him publishing  Wikiproteins, in a peer-reviewed journal (with a 
high
imact factor for those who worry):

http://genomebiology.com/2008/9/5/R89

And dare we say - he has built a repository that people *want* to put things
into ( including me.). Wikipedia is not rubbish and it is maturing all the time.




--
Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069




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