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  • From: Kaitlin Thaney <kaitlin AT creativecommons.org>
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  • Subject: [sc-announce] A report from Science Foo camp - Science Commons blog
  • Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:13:55 -0400

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A report from Science Foo camp

August 9th, 2007 by Kaitlin Thaney

A report from Science Foo camp, held this past weekend (Aug. 3-5) at the Googleplex.

SciFoo is an O’Reilly-Nature event. Over 200 leading scientists, science fiction writers, technologists, and an assortment of others are invited to the Googleplex, making this a truly cross-disciplinary and engaging event. Although there were numerous topics discussed, Open Science was a key theme. A few interesting points on the topic:

1. There was an overwhelming consensus that a problem exists with the current way science is communicated, be it in respect to publishing and journals, or in communication between scientists. And with the growing interest and attention given to “Web 2.0” and all that comes with, many believe that those developments are part of the big push to change how this is done. (“this” being the problems specified above, briefly touched upon for sake of time.)

2. More than one session looked into the reasons behind the apprehension existing in the community preventing the full adoption of current advances of the Web by scientists. There was also a lot of discussion about the further exploration of innovate modes of scientific collaboration.

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- K

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






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