((NIH/NIDA)) [E]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Eric Neumann"
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Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 3:46 PM
Subject: RE: Size estimates of current LS space (and Introductions)
Wikipedia has clearly been working in the
On 11 Aug 2006, at 21:46, Booth, David (HP Software - Boston) wrote:
[snip]
(For example, one probably would not use
a wikipedia URL as a concept identifier in a Semantic Web application,
because the definition of a term can change as fast as a user can type
in a browser.)
[snip]
Actuall
y, August 10, 2006 5:06 PM
> To: 'June Kinoshita'; 'Joanne Luciano'
> Cc: 'Jeremy Zucker'; 'Skinner, Karen ((NIH/NIDA)) [E]'; 'Eric
> Neumann'; 'public-semweb-lifesci hcls'
> Subject: RE: Size estimates of current LS space (a
Hi June,
Thanks for the detailed response. One follow up comment (not for you)
below:
> Could the scientific community perform this
> vetting and editing function itself, a la wikipedia? We have
> found that in general, this does not work. Many scientists
> refuse to correct or criticize colleag
These are issues that the SWAN/Alzforum project team has been
thinking about for a number of years and that have informed our
approach to designing SWAN. We believe that in order for community
curation to succeed, the user community (in our case,
neurodegenerative disease researchers) hav
I think there are two issues in a suspicion of distributed curation:
1. Wanting curation to be good before publication, rather than "it will
become good eventually with enough people looking at it".
2. The perceived need to control what appears as the community view.
Feedback from the comunity
I would like to get some feedback on the feasibility of distributed
curation.
Me too!
PIs who have years of experience in managing curation
projects are not that enthusiastic about its role. It seems the CS
community is all for it but the actual *users* havent really bought
in.
Are there a
Hi Jeremy,
Please see inline comments below..
> The semantic web interests me for several reasons. For one, I
> believe it will be a solid substrate for distributed curation,
> which is a necessary part of the ongoing effort to improve the
> quality of the biological data we use.
> Like wikiped
Hello folks,
It appears that I forgot to put the URL in that last email about the
pathguide: http://www.pathguide.org
Well, since I've already managed to embarrass myself publicly, I
figure I might as well introduce myself formally.
My name is Jeremy Zucker, and I am a bioinformatics s
