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a new online publication

This is a very condensed newsletter-like format, mostly useful for EU/UK information, sponsored by BBC, British Library, JISC and others.

Aspen Institute report asks, "Does Big Data represent an evolution of knowledge, or is more actually less when it comes to information on such scales?"" Big Data and Health Care", "How Should Big Data Abuses Be Addressed?" and "Business and Social Implications of Big Data". (via the Scout Report)

A grant proposal was submitted to build a Facebook for scientists to foster scientific collaboration. Such a social network could connect experts across scientific and geographic borders to promote collaboration on research projects.

Notes from the symposium by Norman Oder -- Library Journal, 4/2/2010

Unfortunate development in the print publication business

Describes a survey instrument to demonstrate the importance of knowlege management, information sharing and collaboration for librarians

According to Christina Pikas, a doctoral student at the University of Maryland College of Information Studies who performed a cluster analysis on science blogs, communities generally form within scientific disciplines.

A series of case studies presents how libraries (or knowledge centers) contribute to achieving organizational goals, including streamlining contracts with partners, increasing access to corporate members via newsletters and mobile-accessible technology, facilitating directories of "intellectual capital" (think HMS's Catalyst or MIT Expertise), a knowledge source and filter of developments in risk management, and a video archive of institutional knowledge. A wide range of organizations were consulted for the report and HBS' Deb Wallace was instrumental in its creation.

Jan Velterop discusses a proposed solution to the plethora of scientific publications daunting new researchers and even established ones, pointing to "ʻnanopublicationsʼ6 as a method with which to extract assertions from published text as well as data collections, and subsequently using them to build an overall picture of the state and the dynamic development of knowledge in a given field."

Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory annual conference to be held December 2-3, 2011, University of Michigan, deadline for proposals July 1, 2011, information on conference topics

Blei-Gerrish and other topic modelling methods can open up the door to new escience advances based on large-scale text copora

The development of ADS can be illustrative in how a digital library with linked, standardized metadata improves findability, enables creation of recommendation services and computational research.

Some now predict that PLoS ONE's model will become the dominant one for scholarly journals. OA advocate Cameron Neylon, for instance, predicted that in future "most scholarly publishing will be in publication venues that place no value on a subjective assessment of 'importance'