[open-science] analysis of gene wikis?

Thu Mar 26 20:08:44 UTC 2009

The irony of Google not searching open Google spreadsheets is not lost 
here.

As to the human readable v. machine readable bit, I'd say the answer is 
in between. It's hard for both to read and re-use...

jtw

Rufus Pollock wrote:
> Better than a search engine :)
> 
> One question I had (not having looked through the whole list in
> detail): are those projects producing "data" or human-readable
> summaries (encyclopaedia articles) -- or a mixture of both. (Also, not
> knowing the area well: is there a difference? I.e. are there agreed
> ways of putting out "structured" information about gene and protein
> function or is it just "free text"?)
> 
> In any case it's a fantastic listing and it would be worth adding to
> http://www.ckan.net/. If anyone knows of any other listings of *open*
> science datasets it would be great to hear about them. BTW: already
> listed science "packages" can be found here:
> <http://www.ckan.net/tag/read/science>
> 
> Rufus
> 
> 2009/3/26 John Wilbanks <wilbanks at creativecommons.org>:
>> ahhhhh, yes. michael gets the shirt.
>>
>> jtw
>>
>> Michael Nielsen wrote:
>>> John - I think you want:
>>>
>>> http://friendfeed.com/e/4ad4515b-fd30-4f9f-bf5c-6a1381692fdc/Comparison-of-biological-wikis/
>>>
>>>
>>> Michael
>>>
>>> On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, John Wilbanks wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm trying to track down the google spreadsheet i saw a while back
>>>> analysing how many uses (users, edits, etc) that various gene wikis have
>>>>   reported. I'm having no luck on the googles.
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone help? SC t-shirt to the first answer, for your wearing
>>>> pleasure (if you agree with us) or for ironic use (if you don't)...
>>>>
>>>> jtw
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> John Wilbanks
>>>>
>>>> VP for Science, Creative Commons
>>>> http://creativecommons.org
>>>> http://sciencecommons.org
>>>> http://neurocommons.org
>>>>
>>>> "We make sharing easy, legal, and scalable."
>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> open-science mailing list
>>>> open-science at lists.okfn.org
>>>> http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/open-science
>>>>
>> --
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> John Wilbanks
>>
>> VP for Science, Creative Commons
>> http://creativecommons.org
>> http://sciencecommons.org
>> http://neurocommons.org
>>
>> "We make sharing easy, legal, and scalable."
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> open-science mailing list
>> open-science at lists.okfn.org
>> http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/open-science
>>

-- 

----------------------------------------------------------------
John Wilbanks

VP for Science, Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org
http://sciencecommons.org
http://neurocommons.org

"We make sharing easy, legal, and scalable."
----------------------------------------------------------------