Colleagues/ On Augst 12 2010, The NYTimes piblished an article titled "Sharing of Data Leads to Progress on Alzheimer’s" >>> In 2003, a group of scientists and executives from the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, the drug and medical-imaging industries, universities and nonprofit groups joined in a project that experts say had no precedent: a collaborative effort to find the biological markers that show the progression of Alzheimer’s disease in the human brain. [more] [snip] As Expected > ForeSeen > Observed > Predicted >>> BTW: Not Only Did The Irish Save Civilization [snip] We Also ForeSaw / Foresee The Future [:-)]
The Paradigms They Are A-Changin' > The Future Of Research And Scholarship: Open / Semantic / Social / Mobile <<<
There are four major themes that are and will become the context and framework of research and scholarship in the 21st Century: Open / Semantic / Social / Mobile
OPEN > Open Access / Open Data / Open Peer Review / Open Research
Semantic > Audio / Interactivity / Supplemental Content / Video
Social > Science Blogging / Social Bookmarking / Social Networking / Social Software
Mobile > Mobile Access / Mobile Content / Mobile Data / Mobile Research
In scheduled presentation(s), we will briefly profile select developments related to these major themes and speculate on their potential evolution and impact on research and scholarship in the coming decade(s). [ http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/2009/05/paradigms-they-are-changin-open.ht...] BTW: For A summary of my presentation at the National Univerity of Ireland, Galway SEE John Brelsin's blog entry at [snip] Thanks, John !!! BTW: John is the co-author of The Social Semantic Web. Springer, 2010 [snip] JOY ! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 Follow Me On Twitter > http://twitter.com/GMcKBlogs "There Is Nothing More Powerful Than An Idea Whose Time Has Come!" / Victor Hugo [ http://bit.ly/b2i4Yl ]