|HOME|Economic Analysis and Policy (EAP), a journal with online downloadable articles and a fast review process| E-science et archithécaires. What is data science? - O'Reilly Radar. We’ve all heard it: according to Hal Varian, statistics is the next sexy job. Five years ago, in What is Web 2.0, Tim O’Reilly said that “data is the next Intel Inside.” But what does that statement mean? Why do we suddenly care about statistics and about data? In this post, I examine the many sides of data science — the technologies, the companies and the unique skill sets. The web is full of “data-driven apps.” One of the earlier data products on the Web was the CDDB database. Google is a master at creating data products. Google’s breakthrough was realizing that a search engine could use input other than the text on the page.
Flu trends Google was able to spot trends in the Swine Flu epidemic roughly two weeks before the Center for Disease Control by analyzing searches that people were making in different regions of the country. Google isn’t the only company that knows how to use data. In the last few years, there has been an explosion in the amount of data that’s available. p31-special-sw-section-5.pdf (Objet application/pdf) For Scholars, Web Changes Sacred Rite of Peer Review. RECHERCHE • Big Brother au service des sciences sociales. Toutes les informations que nous fournissons sur les réseaux sociaux ou par le biais des téléphones portables constituent des bases de données inespérées pour les chercheurs qui étudient le comportement humain. Every move you make… I’ll be watching you [A chacun de tes gestes… Je te regarderai].
Comme dans la chanson de The Police, chacun de vos mouvements et chacun de vos écrits postés sur Twitter – également appelés des tweets – sont enregistrés quelque part. Vous n’y réfléchissez peut-être pas à deux fois, mais lorsque vous utilisez un réseau social ou un téléphone portable, vous laissez derrière vous une trace numérique qui décrit vos comportements, vos déplacements et vos préférences, dévoile qui sont vos amis et révèle vos humeurs et vos opinions. De leur côté, les sociologues doivent généralement se contenter de simples questionnaires ou d’entretiens pour collecter des données et vérifier leurs théories. Prédire le résultat d’un vote D’après M. Nos déplacements espionnés. Unmeasurable Science. On Wednesday PLoS BLOGs launched with a splash. We (both PLoS BLOGs as a whole and me individually) got a lot of positive feedback and words of encouragement – so we are off to a good start. As both our community manager Brian Mossop and myself are currently in London for the Science Online London Conference, we could celebrate the launch in person.
With a good pint of British ale Thursday evening. Today I want to talk about something that is sticking in my head since a conversation a few weeks ago with some friends (all esteemed professors in biology or medicine) over another beer. And this has of course been discussed before, both on this blog and elsewhere. Doing science is not only about doing exciting research, and communicating the results to your peers and the public. This is all good and well in the sense that researchers should be held accountable for how they are using their funding, often from public sources. Technical Lead Article-Level Metrics and Product Manager, PLOS. Too Many Researchers Are Reluctant to Share Their Data - Commentary. By Felicia LeClere A new model of data sharing and openness is emerging in the scientific community that replaces traditional ways of thinking about research findings as the private property of the primary investigator.
Large granting agencies, including the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, have embraced the new model of more-open access to research data. Later this year, the NSF will start requiring scientists seeking research grants to include a data-management plan in their applications, describing how and when their data will be shared. The issue has also captured the attention of a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee, which held hearings last week on an NIH data-sharing policy requiring that federally financed research data be freely available within 12 months of publication.
But the change has been slower to take hold among scientists themselves—resistance that is bogging down the pace of scientific progress. ChemSpider - Database of Chemical Structures and Property Predictions. Valoriser et diffuser l'information scientifique sur le web. E-science , e-recherche, e-research, cyberinfrastructure ... PostGutenberg Peer Review. Joseph Esposito [JE] asks, in liblicense-l: JE: “What happens when the number of author-pays open access sites grows and these various services have to compete with one another to get the finest articles deposited in their respositories?”
Green OA mandates require deposit in each author's own institutional repository. The hypothesis of Post-Green-OA subscription cancellations (which is only a hypothesis, though I think it will eventually prove to be right) is that the Green OA version will prove to be enough for users, leaving peer review as the only remaining essential publishing service a journal will need to perform.
Whether on the non-OA subscription model or on the Gold-OA author-pays model, the only way scholarly/scientific journals compete for content is through their peer-review standards: The higher-quality journals are the ones with more rigorous and selective criteria for acceptability. JE: “What will the cost of marketing to attract the best authors be?”
Science 2.0 Pioneers. Credit: lorenzodom Surely you’ve noticed: The scientific community is undergoing a research-and-data-sharing sea change. Perhaps slower to take to Web-based dissemination than some professions, science—the endeavor for which the World Wide Web was developed—has gradually been adopting new online methods for distributing knowledge. Some say the changes could accelerate scientific progress. From open-access journals to research-review blogs, from collaboration by wiki to epidemiology by Blackberry, networked knowledge has made more science more accessible more quickly and to more people around the globe than could have been imagined 20 years ago. And it’s not just new media businesses that are pioneering the Science 2.0 movement. Traditional scientific journals are part of this social evolution too, innovating ways to engage scientists online and enable global collaboration and conversation.
Varmus is among a cadre of iconoclasts calling for immediate open access to scientific papers. Croyez-vous au Réseaux Sociaux Pour Chercheurs ? There has been tens, if not hundreds, of attempts to launch social networks for scientists and for researchers over the last 3 years. The new “Linkedin for Researchers” or “Facebook for Scientists”: www.collab.com, www.academia.edu, www.academiaconnect.org, biomedexperts.com etc.
Even the Fondation Pierre Gilles de Gennes recently launched its social network for scientists. Although a few of them provide real incentives for researchers ( etc.), although some of them provide really useful tools for scientists ( etc.), most of them, however, fail or will fail. Why ? Why aren’t researchers already on social networks such as Linkedin? They fail to account for the most precious asset Time. Time is the one of the most (if not the most) precious asset of researchers. One of the main idea behind social networks (and more generally behind web 2.0) is that users create the content.
Researchers don’t have time to waste on a social network. And so what ? BioTorrents: A File Sharing Service for Scientific Data. The transfer of scientific data has emerged as a significant challenge, as datasets continue to grow in size and demand for open access sharing increases. Current methods for file transfer do not scale well for large files and can cause long transfer times. In this study we present BioTorrents, a website that allows open access sharing of scientific data and uses the popular BitTorrent peer-to-peer file sharing technology. BioTorrents allows files to be transferred rapidly due to the sharing of bandwidth across multiple institutions and provides more reliable file transfers due to the built-in error checking of the file sharing technology.
BioTorrents contains multiple features, including keyword searching, category browsing, RSS feeds, torrent comments, and a discussion forum. BioTorrents is available at Figures Citation: Langille MGI, Eisen JA (2010) BioTorrents: A File Sharing Service for Scientific Data. Editor: Jason E. Copyright: © 2010 Langille, Eisen. VIVO : le Facebook pour Chercheurs. Sept Universités américaines ont reçu 1.8 million de dollars chacune (un projet de 12.2 millions) pour créer un Facebook pour Scientifiques aux Etats-Unis. Le projet appelé VIVO Web sera plus renforcé que Facebook au niveau de la sécurité, des données sensibles et de la propriété intellectuelle.
VIVO permettra le partage des connaissances entre chercheurs dans le domaine de la médecine principalement (base de données de connaissances des protéines Uniprot, Ontologie des gènes,..). Le projet qui est financé par l’Institut de la Santé américaine veut avant tout permettre une meilleure communication entre les scientifiques qui sont actuellement dispersés dans des communautés sur le web mais sur une multitude de sites différents.
Le réseau social des chercheurs permettra de les focaliser en une seule destination internet et d’interagir entre eux pour mener à bien leurs recherches plus rapidement. Site: www.vivoweb.org. 100330 Pmlpa Science 20 New. La science revue par les blogueurs : Le blog des blogs. Recherche scientifique et blogosphère peuvent faire bon ménage pour le bonheur des internautes curieux, des amateurs de science et même celui des chercheurs. Les blogs peuvent-ils être un média sérieux et fiable pour la diffusion des travaux de recherche scientifique ? On peut raisonnablement se poser la question. Dave Munger n'a plus de doute en la matière. Journaliste et blogueur, spécialiste de psychologie et de neurologie, il tient une chronique dans le magazine scientifique américain Seed dont le titre même est tout un programme : Research Blogging.
Chaque semaine, il écrit sur les tendances émergentes de la recherche scientifique rapportées par la blogosphère. Vous aimez suivre les nouveaux développements en science et dans d'autres domaines mais vous êtes las ou ne vous satisfaisez plus des articles et dépêches d'information, des communiqués de presse impersonnels et formatés, Researchblogging.org vous est destiné, explique Dave Munger.
Philippe R. Science 2.0. Digitalresearchtools / FrontPage. Tim Gowers | World Association of Young Scientists. Sociologically.net | towards an international sociological community. 606540_41.pdf (Objet application/pdf) Tom Roud sur France inter - Association C@fetiers des sciences. Science 2.0. Un article de Wiki URFIST. [modifier] ouverture : l'affaire #arseniclife [modifier] Science 2.0 [modifier] Science 2.0, de quoi parle-t-on?
Science 2.0 vs eScience, Open Science...[1]inclut l'Open Access? [modifier] Paradoxes alors que l’internet est d’origine (en grande partie) universitaire, ses plus récents développements sont globalement appréhendés comme venant l’impacter de l’extérieur alors qu’en face des pratiques des “digital natives”, les “bonnes pratiques” données en exemple s’appuient essentiellement sur le circuit classique de la communication scientifique, celui-ci est profondément en crise [modifier] Open Access / Accès Ouvert la "voie dorée" (S.
Pour se tenir au courant: Open Access News / Peter Suber [modifier] Web 2.0 [modifier] exemples d'outils 2.0 Wikipedia les blogs YouTube Facebook Twitter ... pearltree Caractéristiques: partage désintermédiarisation collaboration [modifier] Essais de défnition [modifier] Science 2.0 Application de quelques principes 2.0 au monde scientifique cf. Librarians still have vital role in the Web 2.0 era - SCIENCE INTELLIGENCE. Information professional Hervé Basset shares his observations about the role of Web 2.0 technology in science intelligence in industry In the past months much has been written about the hyped Web 2.0. Evangelists have talked about applying this to almost everything published or diffused online. Many people expect scientists to be leaders of the Web 2.0 pack. Observing the behaviour of my end users, however, it is not yet clear to me whether this prophecy has been achieved.
The concept of science intelligence (SI) in science can be compared with business intelligence for economics. It includes the processes of gathering, analysing, storing and diffusing the information. The concept is not a brand new one, but companies rarely have a global view of the entire system. Information gathering Online science has achieved great success in the last few years, thanks to close collaboration between publishers and library services. Expertise and knowledge storage Collaboration A low adoption. Parallel Archive. Parallel Archive - The Project. Scicasts™ -- Science and Technology Newsletters: Science 2.0 - Time to Move Forward. Science 2.0: Communicating Science in a Web 2.0 World. Byte Size Biology » Science 2.0: things that work and things that don’t. By Iddo on July 30th, 2009 Open Notebook Credit: hippie on Flickr What is it? Open Notebook means “no insider information” You lab notebook is on a wiki, out there for everyone to see.
Why doesn’t it work? Taking openness and collaboration to the extreme, if you put your notebook on a wiki, and your field is “hot” enough, you can be sure someone will use those ideas to their own benefit, very likely at your expense. Therefore, in the foreseeable future, I believe that the Open Science vision will be limited to non-competitive endeavors that don’t have potential for high-impact research papers down the line. Different disciplines in science have different cultures. What does work? The free and open source software culture, where one is free to modify and distribute software so licensed, has enabled new feats in scientific computation infrastructure by leveling the playing field so that anyone can use, modify and re-distribute software. Community annotation Credit: victoriapeckham Flickr.
Science 2.0. Près de 2000 scientifiques ou étudiants en science blogueraient désormais sur une base mensuelle, hebdomadaire, voire quotidienne. Aux États-Unis, c’est dès 2003 que les plus audacieux ont compris combien le blogue ouvrait une fenêtre inespérée : d’un côté, une partie inquiétante du public voit encore le scientifique comme un Prof Tournesol enfermé dans sa tour d’ivoire.
De l’autre, la place que les médias allouent à la science est si mince —et elle rétrécit! — que les scientifiques ont peu d’opportunités pour renverser cette perception négative. Certes, les professionnels de la vulgarisation ont réalisé d’énormes gains, depuis leur expansion dans les années 1950-1960. Pourquoi est-ce qu’on blogue? Automne 2004. . « Les blogues académiques, écrivait il y a près de quatre ans le politologue américain Henry Farrell, fournissent un carnaval d’idées, un échange d’arguments et des débats vivants et excitants... Un carnet de note commun Prenez OpenWetWare. Le risque de se faire voler ses données? Shotton_Semantic_publishing_evaluation.pdf (Objet application/pdf) Innovate: The Chemistry of Facebook: Using Social Networking to Create an Online Community for the Organic Chemistry Laboratory. WebCite. Science Commons. The more we understand about science and its complexities, the more important it is for scientific data to be shared openly.
It’s not useful to have ten different labs doing the same research and not sharing their results; likewise, we’re much more likely to be able to pinpoint diseases if we have genomic data from a large pool of individuals. Since 2004, we’ve been focusing our efforts to expand the use of Creative Commons licenses to scientific and technical research. Science Advisory Board Open Access The Scholars’ Copyright Project Creative Commons plays an instrumental role in the Open Access movement, which is making scholarly research and journals more widely available on the Web. The world’s largest Open Access publishers in the world all use CC licenses to publish their content online. We’re also expanding Open Access to research institutions. We’ve created policy briefings and guidelines to help institutions implement Open Access into their frameworks. Open Data Learn more.