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DERI Researchers Spearhead ‘Puzzled by Policy’ Project

Angela Guess — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 18:00:46 +0000

Marie Madden of the Galway Independent reports, “Researchers at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) in NUI Galway are leading a multi-million euro European Union initiative aimed at government transparency and giving citizens a voice in creating policies. The project, entitled ‘Puzzled by Policy’ has now launched a new widget (http://join.puzzledbypolicy.eu) that provides a fun way for users to find out about immigration policy and become actively involved in the immigration policy-making process. This unique widget encourages users to explore their opinions on various immigration topics, as well as enabling them to see how their views compare to those of policy-makers, NGOs, and other immigration stakeholders.” continued…

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Using Semantic Technology to Find ‘Green Fields’ in Life Science

Angela Guess — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 18:00:48 +0000

Code-N Technology reports, “In response to the life science industry’s cry for improved research technology, Code-N Technology, Inc. is announcing an early access program to its cloud-based software that empowers scientists to quickly discover new opportunities for drug candidates. Chemists looking to find ‘green fields’ of opportunity not yet claimed by their competition can access the Green Field Finder and perform concept-based searches that deliver results orders of magnitude faster than other commercial products.” continued…

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A Better Antibiotic Through Semantic Interoperability

Angela Guess — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 13:00:53 +0000

Grace Rattue reports that, “Researchers in Europe have developed a new system which could help in the war on resistance to antibiotics” using ICT technology and a semantic interoperability framework. Rattue explains, “According to the World Health Organization, approximately 440,000 new cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis emerge each year, resulting in at least 150,000 deaths… Dr. Dirk Colaert, Chief Medical Officer at Agfa HealthCare in Belgium, said: ‘Clinically, antimicrobial resistance is a huge challenge. Pharmaceutical companies simply can’t come up with new antibiotics fast enough to counter the resistance of bacteria to existing antibiotics and medications. By definition, it’s a war that can’t be won by antibiotics alone.’ Antibiotic resistance occurs when strains of bacteria in the human body evolve and adapt to resist the treatment. The resistance is made worse by some factors, such as the improper use and abuse of antibiotics. Dr. Colaert explained ‘On top of new antibiotics, we need new tools to apply antibiotics more smartly’.” continued…

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Sharing Data in the Biotech Community

Angela Guess — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 17:30:59 +0000

Vivien Marx of Nature.com reports, “In January, over 50 researchers from 30 academic and commercial organizations agreed on a standard for describing data sets. The BioSharing initiative, comprising both researchers and publishers, launched the Investigation-Study-Assay (ISA) Commons, which promises to streamline data sharing among different databases. Life scientists have thousands of databases, over 300 terminologies and more than 120 exchange formats at their disposal, says BioSharing co-founder Susanna-Assunta Sansone of the University of Oxford. In this era of collaborative big science, researchers only move forward by ‘walking together.’ Although increased data sharing is central to scientific progress and is attracting attention from many quarters, standards are only some of the stars that must align to make it possible.” continued…

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Elsevier Enhances SciVal Strata

Angela Guess — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 18:00:03 +0000

Elsevier recently announced that the company “has added a new enhancement to SciVal Strata, a web-based performance evaluation tool that allows users to conduct highly customized performance assessments of research teams and individual researchers. The new functionality provides the capacity for objective assessment of a specific selection of a researcher’s work in addition to their complete publication output. This option is critical when selecting the most impactful papers to be submitted for various government or institutional assessments. In addition the enhanced functionality will prove useful to individuals applying for grants and showing funders the impact of the research they supported.” continued…

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When it Comes to Data Management on the Semantic Web, HBase has the Edge

Angela Guess — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:00:13 +0000

Researchers at the University of Texas – Pan American have found that HBase “has the edge in data management for next generation Internet and cloud computing users.” The article states, “An open-source, non-relational database written in Java that can scale to thousands of servers, HBase makes many features of Google’s proprietary, high-performance distributed storage system BigTable available to the programming community. It also features a fail-safe library that runs ‘on top of’ a server cluster — a global architecture that detects and handles failures at the local level before they spread.” continued…

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Proactive Transparency in Government Data

Angela Guess — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:00:57 +0000

A recent article asks the question, “What’s the link between open data and access to information?” The article states, “The lack of connection that exists between activists working in both communities… prevents realising the issue. This civil servant was really interested in how this new evolution would affect the relationship between citizens and the State. The key connection, and it is not always explicit, between open data and access to information is placed in the so called duties of proactive transparency that Freedom of Information Laws impose on States and that actually mandate [the publishing of] certain categories of information proactively, in an easy and accessible way, so citizens can benefit from it.” continued…

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Purdue Project Databib Strives to Link Research Data

Angela Guess — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:00:53 +0000

According to a new article, “Purdue University Libraries is leading the development of a new, online resource that will help people locate research data on the Internet. The project is called Databib and will engage a community of librarians from around the world to collaborate in creating an online bibliography of data repositories that can be used by researchers, students, funding agencies, and other librarians to find appropriate places to access and share research data. The Institute of Museum and Library Sciences, a federal research agency, awarded a grant to support the project.” continued…

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Researchers Using Data from Tropical Storm Irene to Prepare for Future Storms

Angela Guess — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:00:17 +0000

Researchers from the University at Buffalo are using linked data from Tropical Storm Irene to conduct a damage assessment “that could help hard-hit communities in New York plan for future disasters.” The article notes, “Through data analysis and modeling, the scientists will be able to categorize the flood in the context of historical disasters. The information the researchers produce could help planners create more accurate watershed models and flood maps to better protect communities and infrastructure along Schoharie Creek from a future disaster.” continued…

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New Semantic Language for Life Sciences: S3QL

Angela Guess — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:00:15 +0000

A new language, S3QL has been published for controlled semantic integration of life sciences data. According to the abstract, “The value and usefulness of data increases when it is explicitly interlinked with related data. This is the core principle of Linked Data. For life sciences researchers, harnessing the power of Linked Data to improve biological discovery is still challenged by a need to keep pace with rapidly evolving domains and requirements for collaboration and control as well as with the reference semantic web ontologies and standards.” continued…

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Preventing Pandemics with HealthMap

Angela Guess — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:00:41 +0000

According to a recent article, “A growing segment of the medical community believes that is a realistic possibility and is increasingly looking at ways to harness the power of blogs, news outlets and social-networking websites to detect disease patterns around the world. Dozens of researchers gathered Monday at a pandemic conference in Toronto to hear about the progress one expert has made toward achieving those goals. John Brownstein, an epidemiologist who works as a researcher at Children’s Hospital Boston, told researchers instead of relying solely on government-based disease-surveillance systems, they should recognize the power of clues coming from individuals on the ground.” continued…

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Making the Case for a Standard Biomedical Language

Angela Guess — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:30:59 +0000

A recent article makes the case for a standard language in the life sciences. The article begins, “In July, hundreds of international scientists from dozens of
biomedical fields will meet at the University at Buffalo seeking a common language with which to energize cross-disciplinary research… The public may assume that when biomedical scientists talk, they use the same words to mean the same things. But as [Barry] Smith points out, in different research fields, even such common terms as ‘pain,’ ‘gene,’ ‘blood’ and ‘cancer’ may have very different meanings as used in different contexts. With the exponential growth of biomedical data, this simple fact has enormous implications. It leads to incompatibilities that frequently confuse, halt cross-disciplinary research and severely limit communication among researchers.” continued…

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Praxeon Introduces Semantic Life Science Tool DocumentLens

Angela Guess — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:00:18 +0000

According to a recent article, “Praxeon, Inc., the award-winning Boston-based leader in delivering knowledge solutions for the Healthcare and Life Science communities, today announced the launch of DocumentLens. Their cloud-based web application helps scientific researchers deal with the ever increasing deluge of online and electronic data and information from peer-reviewed journals, regulatory sites, patents and proprietary sources. DocumentLens provides an easy-to-utilize environment to enrich discovery, enhance idea generation, shorten the investigation time, improve productivity and engage collaboration.” continued…

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Apps For Science Contest Offers Big Prizes

Angela Guess — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:00:57 +0000

Software developers have a new opportunity to test their abilities and help researchers in the process: “Elsevier is offering $35,000 in prizes and challenging software developers to help more than 15 million researchers, medical professionals, librarians and students navigate scientific content, improve scientific search and discovery, visualize sophisticated data in more insightful and attractive ways and stimulate collaboration.” continued…

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Announcing the Spanish Linked Data Thematic Network

Angela Guess — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:00:48 +0000

The Universidad Politécnica de Madrid has announced that, “twenty Spanish research groups, employing over 150 researchers from 18 higher education institutions, have set up the Spanish Linked Data Thematic Network, with the aim of improving knowledge exchange and transfer between Spanish researchers working in Spain or abroad on related fields, as well as increasing the international visibility of Spanish research on linked data.” continued…

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