OpenWetWare:Steering committee/NSF BDI Grant

The due date for this application is July 10th, so we need to get started on it immediately. Those interested in helping should contact Sri Kosuri

Relevant pages

1. Grant description
2. Grant outline
3. Grant draft

Resources

• Biological Databases and Informatics (BD&I) official website
• NSF Grant Proposal Guide

What we need

References

Please post any references you have regarding scholarly works that discuss wiki's, collaborative info tools, the inefficiencies of research, the lack of info about methods or anything else that might be relevant. We are in desperate need! Press articles can also be posted (but real papers are more helpful!).

Education

• Teaching on the wiki web
• Module-base learning: PMID 16220145
• Extending the wiki paradigm for use in the classroom

wikis & science

• Science in the web age intro and wikis/blogs
• Comparing wikipedia/Britannica
• Request for a gene-function wiki
• Another correspondence supporting science wiki
• The recent Nature article on wiki/OWW
• Reengineering Wiki also at IEEE

semantic web+wiki

• Semantic authoring and retrieval within a wiki
• Operation of a large scale, general purpose wiki website

1. Berman HM and Westbrook J. The need for dictionaries, ontologies, and controlled vocabularies. OMICS. 2003 Spring;7(1):9-10. DOI:10.1089/153623103322006481 |

semantic web and biology

• A Little Semantic Web Goes a Long Way in Biology

2. Jenssen TK and Hovig E. The semantic web and biology. Drug Discov Today. 2002 Oct 1;7(19):992. DOI:10.1016/s1359-6446(02)02458-3 |

general wiki

• SemperWiki
• Making the case for a wiki

sharing in sciences

3. Eysenbach G. Citation advantage of open access articles. PLoS Biol. 2006 May;4(5):e157. DOI:10.1371/journal.pbio.0040157 |
4. MacCallum CJ and Parthasarathy H. Open access increases citation rate. PLoS Biol. 2006 May;4(5):e176. DOI:10.1371/journal.pbio.0040176 |

Do Open-Access Articles Have Greater Research Impact?

information aggregation in science

• The Role of RSS in Science Publishing ISSN 1082-9873

publishing science online

IMPLEMENTING PEER REVIEW ON THE NET: SCIENTIFIC QUALITY CONTROL IN SCHOLARLY ELECTRONIC JOURNALS

others that might be helpful

Latour, Bruno. Laboratory life : the social construction of scientific facts / Bruno Latour, Steve Woolgar ; introd. by Jonas Salk. Beverly Hills : Sage Publications, c1979. Dewey Library - Stacks | QH315.L315

Letters of support

Assuming we proceed with the grant, we're going to need letters of support. More to come.