Thanks, Susie,
We've identified that computer science, engineering, and domain-specific
students in Health Sciences IT (basic research, clinical trials, patient
care) should be learning more modern skills (that includes web ontology
skills) as noted in the Academic Outreach Project. I would love to see
some academic centers with strong web ontology skills enter the Academic
Outreach Project and help develop the tooling, courseware, etc that can
be used by other academic centers.
Thoughts?
Dan
Susie Stephens wrote:
Thanks Dan. I wasn't aware of Open Health Tools at all previously, and
it's very interesting.
Susie
On 6/2/08, Dan Russler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
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 <http://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
