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\"sydney\" by <\/em><\/span>Corey Leopold<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span>
\nKnowledge wants to be connected<\/a>:
\n[Via Science Commons<\/a>]<\/p>\n

That was the core message of a speech by Science Commons\u2019 John Wilbanks<\/a> at the Open Access and Research Conference 2008<\/a> a few weeks ago in Brisbane, Australia. The conference was an opportunity both to celebrate Australia\u2019s burgeoning leadership<\/a> in harnessing open approaches for advancing science and scholarship, and to talk about where the global open access<\/a> (OA) movement is headed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thanks to the Web, we can gain knowledge about a meeting happening thousands of miles away. Then we can read what others thought of the meeting.<\/em><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s an excerpt from an article by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation\u2019s Anna Sellah<\/a> on the speech, which provides a succinct summary of the reasons why open approaches are vital for deriving value from the vast amounts of scientific data being produced:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe value of any individual piece of knowledge is about the value of any individual piece of lego,\u201d Wilbanks said in a keynote address to the Open Access and Research Conference<\/a> held in Brisbane last week.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not that much until you put it together with other legos.\u201d<\/p>\n

He says the ability to connect knowledge brings scientific revolutions. For example Watson and Crick\u2019s breakthrough on the structure of DNA involved them reading all the scientific papers on nucleotide bonding and encoding it in the form of a physical model, says Wilbanks.<\/p>\n

But this kind of \u201chuman scale\u201d analysis is no longer feasible in an age when automated laboratory processes generate vast amounts of information faster than the human mind can process it.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor example, we have 45,000 papers about one protein or one gene,\u201d says Wilbanks.<\/p>\n

He says a scientist might once have analysed the impact of one drug on one gene, but now pipetting robots are capable of analysing 25,000 genes at a time.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost of the research says the smartest of us can handle five or six independent variables at once – not 25,000,\u201d he says<\/p>\n

You can read the full piece at the ABC website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Those of you following news of the conference and developments in Australia may also be interested in Open Oz<\/a> and Doing things with data<\/a>, two posts by OA leader<\/a> Dr. Alma Swan<\/a>, who was also a keynote speaker at the event.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Social netowwrks evolved to deal wit large problems containing many variables (i.e. “what signs are present indicating that its save to plant?”) If we can have large groups examine the problem, many more variables can be looked at. A question would be “Does the number of variables increase linearly with network size or exponentially?”<\/em>
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Technorati Tags: Social media<\/a>, Web 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n

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