[sc-announce] Neurocommons in the news - Science Commons blog

Kaitlin Thaney kaitlin at creativecommons.org
Mon Oct 1 15:08:36 EDT 2007


http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2007/10/01/neurocommons-in-the-news/


      Neurocommons in the news

October 1st, 2007 
<http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2007/10/01/neurocommons-in-the-news/> 
by Kaitlin Thaney

Pharmaceutical companies may soon be adopting Semantic Web standards and 
technology if they haven't already, according to a recent piece in 
Chemical & Engineering News <http://pubs.acs.org/cen/index.html>. The 
cover story, "The Semantic Web: Pharma researchers Adopt an Orphan 
Internet Standard" 
<http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/85/8540cover1box.html>, looks at the 
desirability of such search technology and functionality in the pharma 
world, specifically highlighting our proof-of-concept project - the 
Neurocommons <http://sciencecommons.org/projects/data/>.

 From the article 
<http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/85/8540cover1box.html>:

    "John Wilbanks, executive director of the Science Commons, a
    spin-off of Creative Commons that develops routes to legal sharing
    of copyrighted scientific documents and data, sees a critical mass
    of IT-savvy researchers enthusiastically pursuing projects using the
    semantic Web. He compares their efforts to pioneering work on the
    Internet itself.

    'Around 1995 or 1996, all the subterranean work exploded,' Wilbanks
    says, 'and most people discovered the Web. What is happening now on
    the semantic Web is similar to what was going on in the five years
    leading up to that explosion.'

    Science Commons, in association with W3C, recently launched a
    demonstration project called Neurocommons to illustrate the benefits
    of the semantic Web in neurological disease research. [...]

    [...] [Wilbanks] says companies will eventually have to adapt
    in-house semantic Webs to a broader standard that expedites
    collaborative research between companies and institutions. Such a
    standard will most likely emerge as in-house projects "boil over"
    and merge. 'There are enough databases and enough smart people
    involved,' he says. 'You can really see the momentum now.'

The article can be read in its entirety here 
<http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/85/8540cover1box.html>.

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Kaitlin Thaney
Project Manager
Science Commons
http://sciencecommons.org
kaitlin at creativecommons.org
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