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[sc-announce] A report from Science Foo camp - Science Commons blog
- 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
http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2007/08/09/a-report-from-science-foo-camp/A report from Science Foo campAugust 9th, 2007 by Kaitlin ThaneyA 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. ... Click the above link to read this entry in its entirety ... - K ----
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- [sc-announce] A report from Science Foo camp - Science Commons blog, Kaitlin Thaney, 08/09/2007
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