[Myexperiment-discuss] SWAN and scietific communities on the Web

[Robert Stevens]

I can't remember if I've seen this one mentioned on this list:




@article{TimClark05012007,
author = {Clark, Tim and Kinoshita, June},
title = {{Alzforum and SWAN: the present and future of scientific web 
communities}},
journal = {Brief Bioinform},
volume = {8},
number = {3},
pages = {163-171},
doi = {10.1093/bib/bbm012},
year = {2007},
abstract = {Scientists drove the early development of the World Wide Web, 
primarily as a means for rapid communication, document sharing and data access.
They have been far slower to adopt the web as a medium for building 
research communities. Yet, web-based communities hold great potential for 
accelerating
the pace of scientific research. In this article, we will describe the 
10-year experience of the Alzheimer Research Forum ( Alzforum'), a unique 
example
of a thriving scientific web community, and explain the features that 
contributed to its success. We will then outline the SWAN (Semantic Web 
Applications
in Neuromedicine) project, in which Alzforum curators are collaborating 
with informatics researchers to develop novel approaches that will enable 
communities
to share richly contextualized information about scientific data, claims 
and hypotheses.
},
URL = {http://bib.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/8/3/163},
eprint = {http://bib.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/8/3/163.pdf}
}