Scintilla: recommendations to the group Open Science

Open Science blog carnival - The interest seems to be there, so what about the details?

2008-07-27T00:01:31-04:00

from alf

posted in Plausible Accuracy on 26 July, 2008

clip: My previous post was really just a signal flare to see if anyone was aware of a pre-established regular blog carnival which focused on Open Science. The consensus seems to be that no, there is not, and it would be a worthwhile idea to try.

Organizing the "idea marketplace"

2008-07-26T22:01:34-04:00

from pedrobeltrao

posted in john hawks weblog on 26 July, 2008

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Open Science blog carnival - The interest seems to be there, so what about the details?

2008-07-27T00:01:31-04:00

from pedrobeltrao

posted in Plausible Accuracy on 26 July, 2008

Measuring editors' performance objectively

2008-07-09T11:31:16-04:00

from alf

posted in bjoern.brembs.blog : a neuroscientist's blog on 5 July, 2008

clip: Editors of schorarly, peer-reviewed journals often claim that somehow their choosiness is the most important verdict on the quality of a scientific manuscript.

Now we have article 2.0

2008-07-08T18:01:39-04:00

from pedrobeltrao

posted in A Man With A Ph.D. on 8 July, 2008

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SciBarCamp report: Digital lab notebooks

2008-03-16T16:09:57-04:00

from alf

posted in Biocurious on 16 March, 2008

clip: The first SciBarCamp is going on this weekend at Hart House at the University of Toronto.

Creating Mitochondria and a sign that we need open peer review

2008-02-11T22:03:29-05:00

from alf

posted in The Tree of Life on 11 February, 2008

clip: Well, since everyone else is posting about this I figured I should too (see for example Steven Salzberg's Blog, The Harvard Crimson, Pharyngula).

Community involvement in information capture and extraction

2008-01-07T09:07:53-05:00

from alf

posted in petermr's blog on 7 January, 2008

clip: There has been a large increase in the number of people and organisations interested in extracting or capturing chemical information from the public domain.

Tracking Results with Workflow Tables

2008-01-05T17:01:38-05:00

from alf

posted in Useful Chemistry on 5 January, 2008

clip: Following my post about shifting the storage of chemistry experiments to a results-centric model, I received lots of good feedback.

Modularizing Results and Analysis in Chemistry

2008-01-03T20:02:49-05:00

from alf

posted in Useful Chemistry on 3 January, 2008

clip: Chemical research has traditionally been organized in either experiment-centric or molecule-centric models.This makes sense from the chemist's standpoint.

Microsoft eChemistry Project and molecular repositories

2007-12-13T14:03:43-05:00

from alf

posted in petermr's blog on 13 December, 2007

clip: Some of you may have picked up from - e.g. the Open Grid Forum - that Microsoft (Tony Hey, Lee Dirks, Savas Parastatidis) have been collaborating with Carl Lagoze (Cornell) and Herbert van de Sompel (LANL) on bringing together Chemistry and OAI-ORE - the next generation of interoperable repository software.

This and That

2007-12-05T17:01:21-05:00

from alf: ""The Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP) announces that they will pay referees for their reports from 2008 on""

posted in Backreaction on 5 December, 2007

clip: The Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP) announces that they will pay referees for their reports from 2008 on:

Open Notebook Science: everyone’s (potentially) a winner

2007-11-21T17:02:50-05:00

from alf

posted in What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate on 15 November, 2007

clip: Cameron has written a very nice post on how open science has altered his work practices for the better:

Give Us the Data Raw, and Give it to Us Now

2007-11-08T15:08:46-05:00

from alf

posted in petermr's blog on 8 November, 2007

clip: Rufus Pollock (OKFN) expresses a common sentiment Give Us the Data Raw, and Give it to Us Now

Cameron's ONS Talk

2007-11-04T19:00:07-05:00

from alf

posted in Useful Chemistry on 4 November, 2007

clip: Cameron Neylon gave a very thoughtful talk at Drexel on Friday about using blogs to capture the science going on in his group then deciding to open his laboratory notebooks to the world.

Scifoo: Science in 2030

2007-08-19T01:00:16-04:00

from pedrobeltrao

posted in business|bytes|genes|molecules on 17 August, 2007

clip: One session from Scifoo that I haven’t talked about yet was one entitled “Science in 2030″.

Giving Open Notebook Science a Try

2007-07-14T04:06:08-04:00

from pedrobeltrao: "Another open lab book"

posted in Open Reading Frame on 14 July, 2007

clip: Openness is spreading, one researcher at a time: Jeremiah Faith, a Boston U graduate student in bioinformatics, has put his lab notes online: Open Notebook Science [...] is a term coined by Jean-Claude Br

What’s so wonderful about citations?

2007-07-12T03:12:16-04:00

from egonw: "One of Peter's best items!"

posted in petermr's blog on 7 July, 2007

clip: Peter Suber reports:

What constitutes useful information?

2007-07-04T01:03:11-04:00

from pedrobeltrao

posted in business|bytes|genes|molecules on 4 July, 2007

clip: One of the challenges with the internet and the amount of information available to us is the difficulty in filtering out what is good and what is not. Take this article that I found in the Health Blog from the Wall Street Journal.

SciRate.com Comments

2007-07-04T04:13:46-04:00

from pedrobeltrao

posted in The Quantum Pontiff on 3 July, 2007

clip: Okay, so yeah, yeah, I’m going to blabber on about SciRate.com again. So if your one of those grumps who think that Digg is what you do in the dirt and MySpace refers to your own personsal space, you can stop reading now.