Not particularly relevant to eResearch but had to include it..! Gloucestershire Royal Hospital makes the news in New Scientist:
"Brian Witcombe, a radiologist at Gloucestershire Royal NHS Trust received the Ig Nobel prize in medicine for his study of sword swallowing and its side effects."
Ig Nobel home page: http://improbable.com/ig/
Friday, 5 October 2007
Semantic image retrieval
NewScientist.com features a story New search tool gets the picture about a new search tool developed by Southampton Uni. The story mentions the limitations of the tool, e.g. that it is difficult to expand and may not cope with the variety of images on the web; but also the strengths e.g. dealing with language, producing more discriminating search results.
Thursday, 4 October 2007
UIMA
This week's Computing (4 Oct) mentions 5 information management technologies to watch out for in the next 3 years:
- consistency and interoperability via emerging standards: JSR, XQuery, JDBC, SDO
- UIMA: http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_projects.nsf/pages/uima.index.html
- automated email archiving and retrieval systems
- extended enterprise search facilities
- unified interface for information management
Wednesday, 3 October 2007
Role of libraries
An interesting post yesterday on Science Library Pad:
http://scilib.typepad.com/science_library_pad/2007/10/grl2020-and-the.html
It mentions how librarians should accept that some services might be better done through technology or even by other organisations. Instead, they should focus on where they can really add value e.g. managing scientific data, curating digital information like blog posts. The post mentions a recent event organised jointly by University of Washington Libraries and Microsoft, Global Research Library 2020.
http://scilib.typepad.com/science_library_pad/2007/10/grl2020-and-the.html
It mentions how librarians should accept that some services might be better done through technology or even by other organisations. Instead, they should focus on where they can really add value e.g. managing scientific data, curating digital information like blog posts. The post mentions a recent event organised jointly by University of Washington Libraries and Microsoft, Global Research Library 2020.
Tuesday, 2 October 2007
Tips for conference bloggers
Really useful tips on blogging from a conference
http://www.lunchoverip.com/2007/10/tips-for-confer.html
http://www.lunchoverip.com/2007/10/tips-for-confer.html
OGF and OGC
From OGF Grid Connections Oct 07 newsletter:
"In terms of user communities, OGF is pursuing a collaboration with the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). OGC has a suite of tools for managing and presenting geospatial data -- anything that goes on a map -- and wants very much to extend their tools with the capability for distributed resource management, i.e., grids. I should also note that there is a Web 2.0 workshop at OGF-21 that covers social networking, semantic grids, and sensors. The fact that half of all Web 2.0 services registered at programmableweb.com are geospatially related, and that Google is sending KML through the OGC standardization rocess, indicates that there is a huge potential for grids in this arena. "
OGF21 is later this month - worth seeing what comes out of the following workshops:
Web 2.0 - features presentations on research and commercial applications of Web 2.0 technology including HPC, Cyberinfrastructure, Semantic Research, Social Networking
Geospatial - a collaboration with the OGC, covering topics such as grid-enabling the OGC's Web Processing Service and a NSF proposal on Community-based Data Interoperability Networks
GridNet2 - highlighting the work of the UK eScience at the OGF and in related standards bodies
"In terms of user communities, OGF is pursuing a collaboration with the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). OGC has a suite of tools for managing and presenting geospatial data -- anything that goes on a map -- and wants very much to extend their tools with the capability for distributed resource management, i.e., grids. I should also note that there is a Web 2.0 workshop at OGF-21 that covers social networking, semantic grids, and sensors. The fact that half of all Web 2.0 services registered at programmableweb.com are geospatially related, and that Google is sending KML through the OGC standardization rocess, indicates that there is a huge potential for grids in this arena. "
OGF21 is later this month - worth seeing what comes out of the following workshops:
Web 2.0 - features presentations on research and commercial applications of Web 2.0 technology including HPC, Cyberinfrastructure, Semantic Research, Social Networking
Geospatial - a collaboration with the OGC, covering topics such as grid-enabling the OGC's Web Processing Service and a NSF proposal on Community-based Data Interoperability Networks
GridNet2 - highlighting the work of the UK eScience at the OGF and in related standards bodies
Monday, 1 October 2007
Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access
"JISC is supporting an international initiative, led by US-based organisations the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, to address the issue of economic sustainability in digital preservation.
A Task Force to be co-chaired by Fran Berman, director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California and a pioneer in data ‘cyberinfrastructure’, and Brian Lavoie, an economist and research scientist with OCLC, will receive support from the Library of Congress, the National Archives and Records Administration and the Council on Library and Information Resources, along with JISC.
The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access is expected to meet over the next two years to gather testimony from experts in preparation for the Task Force's Final Report. Though significant progress has been made to overcome the technical challenges of achieving persistent access to digital resources, the economic challenges remain."
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2007/09/pres
A Task Force to be co-chaired by Fran Berman, director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California and a pioneer in data ‘cyberinfrastructure’, and Brian Lavoie, an economist and research scientist with OCLC, will receive support from the Library of Congress, the National Archives and Records Administration and the Council on Library and Information Resources, along with JISC.
The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access is expected to meet over the next two years to gather testimony from experts in preparation for the Task Force's Final Report. Though significant progress has been made to overcome the technical challenges of achieving persistent access to digital resources, the economic challenges remain."
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2007/09/pres
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