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- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- What is the web good for?
- Publishing
- Subscribing
- Syndicate, remix and mashup
- Publish, aggregate, syndicate, remix, collaborate
- What scientists need to do
- Publish, subscribe
- Syndicate
- Remix
- So far, so good right?
- Validate
- Validation tools in the software world
- Still not covered
- Data recording in a lab notebook
- Dead; Broken; Disconnected
- Notebook for a fully integrated laboratory record
- Links make the web go round
- How do we make the web work for science?
- Lab book as a journal
- Blog as journal
- Lab book vs. blog
- A lab notebook blog
- Automatic blogging by machines (1)
- Integration and communication
- Google reader
- A closer look at a post
- Links embedded in a post
- Connecting up all the objects (1)
- Connecting up all the objects (2)
- Data objects
- Data services
- Variety of services
- Embedding objects - Youtube
- Embedding objects - ChemSpider
- What good data services should have
- Samples and procedures
- Measuring solubility
- Wikispaces
- Spreadsheet online
- Further analysis
- 3D graph for solubility
- Summary so far
- So what we are left with?
- The relationships between resources
- Capturing the relationships between resources
- Research objects on the web
- Automatic blogging by machines (2)
- Lightweight, natural approaches for uploading
- Feeds of research objects
- Integration and communication
- The uploading process
- Using objects from different people
- Authoring tools for making connections
- Connections between objects
- Tools that will allow us to make the connections
- Online example - PCR template
- Other possibilities
- 4. Semantic framework
- We still have a problem
- We still have two (related) problems
- Information overload
- Submissions to Genbank
- Average capacity of human scientist
- Filter failure
- Search engines
- People that helped (1)
- People that helped (2)
- If objects are locked away
- Connect, relate and have conversations
- If the objects are not open and available
- Objects simply disappear
- To exploit the web, the pieces have to be open
- Did you open an encyclopaedia in the last 5 years?
- Did you used Google in the last 24 hours?
- If it isn't discoverable it doesn't exist
- If it isn't discoverable it can't be linked to
- Back to the open solubility project
- The open solubility project took only four months
- The polymath project
- Gower's weblog
- The synaptic leap
- Resolution of praziquantel
- Summary and common themes
Topics Covered
- Research works by building on the work of others
- The web as a new tool: what is it good for?
- How does this relate to the needs of researchers?
- The research record is not web enabled
- Lab notebook as blog
- Automated tools
- Using specialised services: putting research outputs where they best belong
- An example: Open Notebook Solubility
- Record is the collection of links between research outputs
- Tools to build these links and records
- Information overload
- Social filtering
- The need for open approaches
- Conclusions
Talk Citation
Neylon, C. (2012, March 8). Open research: motivation, theory, and practice [Video file]. In The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved April 15, 2025, from https://doi.org/10.69645/LQBB8222.Export Citation (RIS)
Publication History
- Published on March 8, 2012
Financial Disclosures
- Dr. Cameron Neylon has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.