OpenWetWare:Steering committee/NSF BDI Grant/Outline

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Project Summary

Project Description

Background & Significance

Intro on information overload

Past solutions

  • wormbase/dictybase

Web 2.0 technologies

OpenWetWare as a successful application of wiki

protocols

equipment

current research

  • information on researchers & research

LIMS

information aggregation

education

Other efforts suggest development of a standard distribution

  • A number of groups are just starting, important now
    • personal, CDP, openwetware, soon to be e coli
  • Our experiences and user base suggests, we make distro

Paragraph specifying goals & significance

Research Plan

Expanding OWW

community organization/leader

  • likelihood of success depends on size, vibrancy, and growth of existing community

infrastructure

tools

  • database integration
  • semantic web

OWW-Distribution

intro

open API

collaboration with other large wiki communities

  • NeuroCommons
  • E. coli Wiki

Conclusions

Long term Self sustenance

  • infrastructure could become free, once maturation of distro
  • tech team reduces to coordinating development by individual communities
  • Traffic indicates we could rely on other routes, ads, sponsorships

Wrap-up