[open-science] OFA Article on "Bottom-up creation of Open Scientific Knowledge"

Wed Jan 9 15:04:47 UTC 2013

On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Tom Olijhoek <tom.olijhoek at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Peter & other list members
>
> I would be interested to be involved in such a project. As you may know I
> see the problem of making knowledge widely available best solved by the
> formation of knowledge communities centered on specific areas, for instance
> groups that focus on specific organizing knowledge on specific diseases, by
> managing databases with aggregated papers, publishing papers themselves,,
> link to citizen science groups etc.
> I would be happy to participate in writng a chapter on creation of open
> scientific knowledge using this idea.
>

Tom - that's fantastic. You bring exactly what the OFA is - I think -
looking for. One message is that you do not have to be an anointed person
to be a scientist.

>
> cheers TOM
>
> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> I (and a number of OKFers) am a fellow of the Open Forum Academy, a group
>> centered on open Standards and practice primarily in IT but also related
>> fields. One of their outputs is an Open book with contributed chapters. In
>> the first book Jenny Molloy , Diane Cabell and I wrote a chapter on Open
>> Content Mining see:
>> http://openforumacademy.org/library/ofa-fellows-reference-library
>>
>> I have now volunteered another chapter on "Bottom-up creation of Open
>> Scientific Knowledge" and they are happy to publish this. Is anyone
>> interested in being a co-author? We would have an OKF affiliation as well
>> as our day jobs.
>>
>> I proposed this on the basis that we have the means to create our own
>> knowledge (whether directly of indirectly). This could include things like:
>> * citizen science
>> * aggregation and indexing of current open scientific knowledge
>>
>> I want to get across the idea that we now do not have to have science
>> sanctioned from the top down. Suggest you mail this list with ideas and
>> we'll find a skype time.
>>
>> --
>> Peter Murray-Rust
>> Reader in Molecular Informatics
>> Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
>> University of Cambridge
>> CB2 1EW, UK
>> +44-1223-763069
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>

-- 
Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069
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