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A contest to develop applications for Elsevier's Sciverse platform to be held in Troy, NY 6/27-28/11

Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences Hackathon

"The combination of Elsevier's and Collexis' knowledge discovery technologies will create a powerful set of applications designed to support scientific management and assessment." Publishers are offering more and more tools, e.g. Thomson Reuter's InCites and SciVal.

"As more sources for citation information have become available - even many scholarly databases today offering cited reference data - the need to identify, access and manage these resources is becoming acute. Information professionals need to become more proactive in their strategies to support these applications and users. .."

The six month review will look at what the UK can learn from US rules on the use of copyright material without the rights holder's permission.

In this paper, we propose the construction of ontologies as a means of monitoring a research programme's portfolio of projects. In particular, we introduce the "virtual laboratory ontology" (VLO) and show how its application to e-Science yields a mapping

More than a dozen leading experts give their opinions on where the Internet is headed and where it will be in the next decade in terms of technology, policy, and applications. They cover topics ranging from the Internet of Things to climate change to the digital storage of the future. A summary of the articles is available in the Web extras section. (requires subs, alas)

Science 2.0: Social networks and online applications for scholars. Author: Lluís Codina

From Elsevier, S&T Journals, Content Innovation. Offers models of dataset linking and application-based dataset linking to scientific journal articles

Scientists can now include online gaming in their problem-solving arsenal... Imagine an article or patent application with 30,000 gamers/authors?

Proposes a new way of looking at library organization and services, with three specific areas, reduce redundant collection and storage with a "national network of "last copy" print repositories," throw efforts toward National Digital Library such as proposed by Darnton, coordinate depository and data sharing initiatives, consolidate technical services operations regionally, and establish an LIS R&D for data collection, data sharing, decision making and development of useful information applications.

Developed for the LAK Data Challenge 2013, Cite 4Me is a web application using semantic relationships between queries and data to enable discovery and recommendation of scientific publications

Downloadable ebook from O'Reilly. "The Big Data Now anthology is relevant to anyone who creates, collects or relies upon data. It's not just a technical book or just a business guide. "

From Artifacts to Aggregations: Modeling Scientific Life Cycles on the Semantic Web

Main objectives To expand the current understanding of the complex system of interconnections and knowledge flows between science and its domains of application; To design and develop databases, sophisticated measurement models, metrics and quantitative indicators...

(Note: See the .pdf attached to this media release for the various models suggested for analyzing impact) It is often stated that the most difficult task in any research project is not the achievement of results, but the accurate analysis of the benefits that those outcomes reap. The Australian Government's Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) Programme has been a leading light in the discovery and industry-focused application of new technologies and techniques. Now, with the release of a landmark guidebook by the CRC Association, scientists are armed with tools to greatly improve their ability to accurately assess the benefit to the economy of their outputs.

"potential to dramatically accelerate a broad disruption in the mobile phone market where the balance of power shifts from carriers and retailers to device, software, and applications providers."

article by Mercè Crosas, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, Harvard. Demonstrates application's utility for data sharing, preservation, permanence, interoperability, ease of use and maintenance, among other considerations