[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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