future of scientific communication - what is the genuine article?

Scientific findings in a digital world:what is the genuine article?

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

science “knowledge”


incrementalism in communication


more knowledge

research materialsdata

ontologiesannotations

wikissoftware


registrationcertification

disseminationpreservation


integrationannotationfederation


technical


a©legal


what if use is orthogonal to “making a copy” ?


category errors


semantic...


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coffee

cafe


coffee

cafe

kopi


coffee

cafe

kopi

cafezinho


coffee

cafe

kopi

cafezinho

koffee


coffee

cafe

kopi

cafezinho

koffee

espresso


coffee

cafe

kopi

cafezinho

koffee

espresso

latte


coffee

cafe

kopi

cafezinho

koffee

espresso

latte

mocha


coffee

cafe

kopi

cafezinho

koffee

espresso

latte

mocha americano


coffee

“coffee”

“cafe”

“kopi” http://ontology.foo.org/1234567

converge on common names.


http://ontology.foo.org/receptor

http://ontology.foo.org/receptor

“discipline exceptionalism”


legal, technical, semantic


and if we’re wrong?


GIGO?


“...we don’t ask what the incentive is for the electrons to leave home. We say that the current results from an emergent property of the system, which we call induction.”


“...we don’t ask what the incentive is for the electrons to leave home. We say that the current results from an emergent property of the system, which we call induction.”

“The question we ask is ‘what’s the resistance of the wire?’”

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what’s the resistance, and how do we overcome it?


future of scientific communication - what is the genuine article?

Technology

emergent propertyof

current results

digital world

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common names

scientific findings

genuine article

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