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Philip Solars

The Right Solar Panel! - 1 views

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seth kutcher

Remote Computer Assistance - 1 views

My computer often experiences trouble and I could hardly find someone to fix it for me, especially when it happens during the wee hours of the morning. My friend told me about Computer Assistance O...

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Mike Chelen

Peering into PLoS One comment stats : business|bytes|genes|molecules - 0 views

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    I was one of the lucky few who was given access to a dump of "social" statistics for PLoS One (my term). The data were given to us to analyze as we please, to glean from them what we may (I don't really know who all the others were).
Mike Chelen

Science 2.0 - introduction and perspectives for Poland « Freelancing science - 0 views

  • transcript of Science 2.0 based on a presentation I gave on conference on open science organized in Warsaw earlier this month
  • prepared for mixed audience and focused on perspectives for Poland
  • new forms of communication between scientists
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  • research become meaningful only after confronting results with the scientific community
  • peer-reviewed publication is the best communication channel we had so far
  • new communication channels complement peer-reviewed publication
  • two important attributes in which they differ from traditional models: openness and communication time
  • increased openness and shorter communication time happens already in publishing industry (via Open Access movement and experiments with alternative/shorter ways of peer-review)
  • say few words about experiments that go little or quite a lot beyond publication
  • My Experiment as an example of an important step towards openness
  • least radical idea you can find in modern Science 2.0 world
  • virtual research environment
  • focus is put on sharing scientific workflows
  • use case
  • diagram of the “methods” sections from experimental (including bioinformatics analyses) publications
  • make it easier for others to understand what we did
  • can open towards other scientists we can also open towards non-experts
  • people from all over the world compete in improving structural models of proteins
  • helps in improving protein structure prediction software and in understanding protein folding
  • combine teaching and data annotation
  • metagenome sequences in first case and chemistry spectra in the second
  • interactive visualizations of chemical structures, genomes, proteins or multidimensional data
  • communicate some difficult concepts faster
  • new approaches in conference reporting
  • report in real time from the conference
  • followed by a number of people, including even the ones that were already on the conference
  • “open notebook science” which means conducting research using publicly available, immediately updated laboratory notebook
  • The reason I did a model for Cameron’s grant was that I subscribed to his feed before
  • I didn’t subscribe to Cameron because I knew his professional profile
  • I read his blog, I commented on it and he commented on mine, etc.
  • participation in online communities
  • important part of Science 2.0 is the fact that it has human face
  • PhDs about the same time
  • first was from a major Polish institute, the second from a major European one
  • what a head of a lab both would apply to will see
  • gap we must fill, this is between current research and lectures we give today
  • access to real-time scientific conversation
  • follow current research and decide what is important to learn
  • synthetic biology
  • not all universities in world have synthetic biology courses
  • didn’t stop these students, and they plan to participate in IGEM again
  • not only scientists – there are librarians, science communicators, editors from scientific journals, people working in biotech industry
  • community of life scientists
  • even people without direct connection to science
  • diverse skills and background
  • online conference
  • interact with them and to learn from them
Mike Chelen

Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Open Data: Openness and Licen... - 0 views

  • Why bother about openness and licensing for data
  • It’s crucial because open data is so much easier to break-up and recombine, to use and reuse.
  • want people to have incentives to make their data open and for open data to be easily usable and reusable
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  • good definition of openness acts as a standard that ensures different open datasets are ‘interoperable’
  • Licensing is important because it reduces uncertainty. Without a license you don’t know where you, as a user, stand: when are you allowed to use this data? Are you allowed to give to others? To distribute your own changes, etc?
  • licensing and definitions are important even though they are only a small part of the overall picture
  • If we get them wrong they will keep on getting in the way of everything else.
  • Everyone agrees that requiring attribution is OK
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      My opinion is that there should be no requirements, including attribution, and that standards should be community-based instead of legal.
  • Even if a basic license is used it can be argued that any ‘requirements’ for attribution or share-alike should not be in a license but in ‘community norms’.
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      Licenses and community norms are not exclusive. It's recommended to adopt a Public Domain license, and encourage attribution through community standards.
  • A license is likely to elicit at least as much, and almost certainly more, conformity with its provisions than community norms.
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      Ease of access and should be the goal, not conformity.
  • (even to a user it is easy to comply with the open license)
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      It is important to specifically publish using a Public Domain dedication.
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    Why bother about openness and licensing for data? After all they don't matter in themselves: what we really care about are things like the progress of human knowledge or the freedom to understand and share.
Mike Chelen

de.bezier.mysql - 0 views

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    Processing (BETA) library to communicate with MySQL (or any other SQL) databases. note that due to java security restrictions this will not work with applets "out of the box" and that many remote mysql-servers will only allow local access ("localhost") or connections from trusted hosts. (see notes. ) also note that you should have some experience with SQL to put, change and retrieve data from the database.
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