Hi Susie,
This Challenge looks great.
Open Health Tools is working on a challenge grant for Health Sciences as
well...Perhaps there are ways to learn from each of these kinds of
activities?
Here is the link to Open Health Tools and its Academic Outreach Project...
www.openhealthtools.org >>> Charter Projects >>> Academic Outreach
Project >>>>Educational Stream
Regards,
Dan
Susie M Stephens wrote:
Some of you may be interested in the Elsevier Grand Challenge (
http://www.elseviergrandchallenge.com/).
The Elsevier Grand Challenge: Knowledge Enhancement in the Life
Sciences is a contest created to improve the way scientific information
is communicated and used. The contest invites members of the scientific
community to describe and prototype a tool to improve the interpretation
and identification of meaning in (online) journals and text databases
relating to the life sciences. Specifically we are looking for new ways
to:
1. improve the process/methods/results of creating, reviewing and
editing scientific content
2. interpret, visualize or connect the knowledge more effectively,
and/or
3. provide tools/ideas for measuring the impact of these improvements.
While the traditional functions of peer-review, quality control,
dissemination and archiving remain at the heart of scientific
publishing, it is clear that new technologies are creating opportunities
to facilitate interpretation of data. In initiating the Elsevier Grand
Challenge, we hope to interact with the scientific community to discuss
changing modes of publishing and knowledge sharing with innovative
groups who are interested in changing the way science is published. The
objective is to generate useful new ideas that could have a widespread
impact on scientific publishing in general.
Cheers,
Susie
