On 09/25/2014 02:42 AM, Peter Murray-Rust wrote: > Many/most academic scientists are very bad at data. They need help; Some > would welcome additional help. I can envisage a "market" where data > scientists "outside" academia work with bench scientists "inside" academia > > It will be very difficult to get this started, because of culture. > Academics are now forced to compete against everyone instead of > collaborate. Citizens are seen as second-class. This is simplistic, but > it's a common view.
I like this idea and I do agree with you. But I think if we do something like XPRIZE, as in allow room of both collaboration and completion, it could work. Perhaps a system like the Open Science Framework along with Open Notebook Science could work. -- Svetlana Belkin A.K.A: belkinsa User Wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/belkinsa -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-scientists Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-scientists More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

