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Functional classification of knowledge is a very effective way of stripping away boundaries between different industries and scientific disciplines. The function database provides descriptions, examples and animations for all known effects that can produce a function.

This is a bit advanced version of our bionics2space.com database. Seems nicely done. Still no opinion about the content, though.

Deja Vu: a Database of Highly Similar and Duplicate Citations

Hey Guys, Is one of you has any idea about how it's coded? I mean, is it just a basic database of already-written answers or something more sophisticated? Anyway, have fun! Alex

Hi, thanks for your answer. I had a look to the different versions, that's pretty interesting to see how they have evolved over the years.

I was not at all impressed - stopped after a few questions since getting ridiculous answers or trials to change topic

Following up on our coffee-time discussion, here's an Evolutionary Algorithm where you are the fitness function, and evolution is guided by your subjective artistic sense. Start from scratch, or pick an existing image in the database, and start evolving. At every generation, you are presented with the individuals/images in the population. Pick the ones you like. Those will be the parents from which the next generation will be bred. Repeat, repeat... where do you get to? If you want to learn more about the science behind this, check the tutorial below by Kenneth Stanley, who is also this site's supervisor: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1830761.1830920

website of the project working on the 'Living Earth Simulator': http://www.futurict.ethz.ch/FuturICT five page summary of the FuturICT Proposal: http://www.futurict.ethz.ch/data/FuturICT-FivePageSummary.pdf

Interesting databases to play with data mining algorithms

Here is a first entry for our canweuseitforspace database. Jose, apparently this invisibility cloack is not that difficult after all!!!! Watch the youtube video.....

Web site of the open-source database on bird migration

A database with biological models that can be downloaded or run in the web-browser!

The Halfbakery is a communal database of original, fictitious inventions, edited by its users. It was created by people who like to speculate, both as a form of satire and as a form of creative expression.

you can search the database for NASA Featured Technologies. It contains text and images from all 11 NASA centers...

How to Create Another Mediawiki on the Same Server, Using the Same Source Code, Using the Same Database, but with its own Tables

smells like ariadnet for ariadna papers and researchers

I am on mendeley now and I like it so far ! You can check my page on http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/pacome-delva/

am also on Medelay since some time - think that Tobias has showed it to me. Nice but did not actually use it yet really ....

RoboEarth Cloud Engine now complements the RoboEarth knowledge database with computational capabilities and allows web services dedicated to robots

All Prior Art is a project attempting to algorithmically create and publicly publish all possible new prior art, thereby making the published concepts not patent-able. The concept is to democratize ideas, provide an impetus for change in the antiquated patent system, and to preempt patent trolls. The system works by pulling text from the entire database of US issued and published (un-approved) patents and creating prior art from the patent language. While most inventions generated will be nonsensical, the cost to computationally create and publish millions of ideas is nearly zero - which allows for a higher probability of possible valid prior art.

For 11 years, Henley & Partners has published the Visa Restrictions Index, giving unprecedented and inimitable insight into the development of visa policies over time. It is the only Index produced in collaboration with the International Air Transport Association, which maintains the world's largest database of travel information.

Demand for drones is exploding! Dupin wants to aggregate aerial imagery from around the globle at Dronestagr.am. In the near future we could experience something close to google maps, made with aerial pictures.

Remember that drones have top-view camera and front-view camera which gives more possibilities in terms of what you can do with collected data. With such a huge database and a little bit of 3D geometry we could get e.g. a 3D map of the world... I guess google can derive something like that already from their streetview images however obviously street view covers some relatively small part of the globe and also can not access places that UAV can.

Here there's an example of a 3D picture of Tokyo (in high resolution). It is not made by drones, but I think it is something we can use them for. http://360gigapixels.com/tokyo-tower-panorama-photo/

NASA answer to the big data hype

"The service encompasses selected NASA satellite and global change data sets -- including temperature, precipitation, and forest cover -- and data processing tools from the NASA Earth Exchange (NEX)" Very good marketing move for just three types of selected data (MODIS, Landsat products) plus four model runs (past/projection) for the the four greenhouse gas emissions scenarios of the IPCC. It looks as if they are making data available to adress a targeted question (crowdsourcing of science, as Paul mentioned last time, this time climate evolution), not at all the "free scrolling of the user around the database" to pick up what he thinks useful, mode. There is already more rich libraries out there when it comes to climate (http://icdc.zmaw.de/) Maybe simpler approach is the way to go: make available the big data sets categorized by study topic (climate evolution, solar system science, galaxies etc.) and not by instrument or mission, which is more technical, so that the amateur user can identify his point of interest easily.

They are taking a good leap forward with it, but it definitely requires a lot of post processing of the data. Actually it seems they downsample everything to workable chunks. But I guess the power is really in the availability of the data in combination with Amazon's cloud computing platform. Who knows what will come out of it if hundreds of people start interacting with it.