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  • Workflows from Sage Bionetworks.

    Workflows from Sage Bionetworks.

    The aims of the SageCite project included extending Taverna to incorporate a citation service, and collecting evidence of the types of network models, data and process used in the modelling of disease networks. Review of the literature shows that curre...

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  • Closing the Digital Curation Gap

    Closing the Digital Curation Gap

    Last week on the day before the ICE Forum (28th June 2011) I attended the Closing the Digital Curation Gap Meeting. CDCG is an International Collaboration to Integrate Best Practice, Research & Development, and Training in Digital Curation. It has been running since October 2009 and was scheduled to finish in September this year but [...]

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  • Presentations from the workshop.

    Presentations from the workshop.

    The presentations from the workshop are now available from slideshare. These are in addition to the recording of Liz Lyon opening the event. Crowdsourcing Lay Summaries: Bridging the Gap in Health Research by Liz Lyon Accessing Biomedical and Health Information by Lee-Ann Coleman .prezi-player { width: 550px; } .prezi-player-links { text-align: center; } JISCPP on [...]

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  • Workshop Speakers

    Workshop Speakers

    At the workshop I managed to record the welcome and introduction to the project by Liz Lyon using a Flip camera, and this is now available from vimeo. Warning: there is flash photography which can be seen in the recording. Liz Lyon opening the Patients Participate! Workshop, Jun 2011 from UKOLN on Vimeo. The Biographies for [...]

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  • After the workshop: a thank you.

    After the workshop: a thank you.

    The project team would like to thank all those who came to the Patients Participate! workshop on Friday 17th June 2011.  We are very encouraged by the level of attendance and engagement during the event.  We are very appreciative of the information and views we have gathered through your input, and we will be producing [...]

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  • The Patients Participate! Workshop

    The Patients Participate! Workshop

    Bridging the Gap between Information Access and Understanding in Health Research 17 June 2011 The British Library Conference Centre We now have more access than ever to scientific papers and summaries of biomedical and health research. Anyone with a computer and an internet connection can read the latest research results due to initiatives like UK [...]

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  • Data Citation Principles, Harvard.

    Data Citation Principles, Harvard.

    This Monday, a number of thought leaders (and myself) will be gathering for two days of discussion on citation at the Data Citation Principles Workshop organised by IQSS at Harvard University. I will be presenting some findings from our SageCite projec...

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  • SageCite presentation at the Sage Bionetworks Congress

    SageCite presentation at the Sage Bionetworks Congress

    The presentation given at the Sage Congress about SageCite is now available as a pdf and as a stream.  The rest of the presentations from the Congress are also available for viewing. Starting from Slide 7 of Eric Schadt’s report on one of the br...

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  • Introducing the Project Partners: UKOLN

    Introducing the Project Partners: UKOLN

    The Open Science at Web Scale report published by UKOLN in 2009, discussed the possibility of engaging the public in science, by extending the science team to include interested volunteers or amateur scientists or citizens. Citizen Science is a term used for projects in which volunteers, including the general public and enthusiasts, engage in research-related [...]

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  • 2011 Sage Bionetworks Congress

    2011 Sage Bionetworks Congress

    This week, members of the SageCite Project will be attending the Sage Bionetworks Commons Congress which will be held over 15 – 16 April 2011 at the University of California, San Francisco. The Congress is the annual event organised by Sage Bionetwor...

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