Comments on: What’s scientific data all about? http://mndoci.com/2008/11/02/whats-scientific-data-all-about/ ruminations on science, data and computing by Deepak Singh Sat, 04 Sep 2010 08:35:55 +0000 hourly 1 By: davetribbett http://mndoci.com/2008/11/02/whats-scientific-data-all-about/comment-page-1/#comment-303169 davetribbett Fri, 16 Apr 2010 23:50:32 +0000 http://mndoci.com/blog/?p=1107#comment-303169 Good post, here's a couple posts that link digital content to the library, also discusses the importance of curating in a digital age. The librarians need to somehow get control of the important content otherwise its the wild west! Here are the links:<br><a href=http://tastethecloud.com/content/scientific-data-needs-be-curated rel="nofollow"><b>Curating content</b></a><br>and<br><a href=http://tastethecloud.com/series_topics_content rel="nofollow"><b>Information and Content topics</b></a> Good post, here's a couple posts that link digital content to the library, also discusses the importance of curating in a digital age. The librarians need to somehow get control of the important content otherwise its the wild west! Here are the links:
Curating content
and
Information and Content topics

]]> By: davetribbett http://mndoci.com/2008/11/02/whats-scientific-data-all-about/comment-page-1/#comment-303076 davetribbett Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:50:32 +0000 http://mndoci.com/blog/?p=1107#comment-303076 Good post, here's a couple posts that link digital content to the library, also discusses the importance of curating in a digital age. The librarians need to somehow get control of the important content otherwise its the wild west! Here are the links:<br><a href=http://tastethecloud.com/content/scientific-data-needs-be-curated rel="nofollow"><b>Curating content</b></a><br>and<br><a href=http://tastethecloud.com/series_topics_content rel="nofollow"><b>Information and Content topics</b></a> Good post, here's a couple posts that link digital content to the library, also discusses the importance of curating in a digital age. The librarians need to somehow get control of the important content otherwise its the wild west! Here are the links:
Curating content
and
Information and Content topics

]]> By: mndoci http://mndoci.com/2008/11/02/whats-scientific-data-all-about/comment-page-1/#comment-302660 mndoci Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:05:57 +0000 http://mndoci.com/blog/?p=1107#comment-302660 Great point. I've run into many people who think that humans have to examine results to trust the quality. SNPedia is actually a great example of what I am talking about, since it does take care of much of the heavy lifting as you say, while making human curation easier. Great point. I've run into many people who think that humans have to examine results to trust the quality. SNPedia is actually a great example of what I am talking about, since it does take care of much of the heavy lifting as you say, while making human curation easier.

]]> By: cariaso http://mndoci.com/2008/11/02/whats-scientific-data-all-about/comment-page-1/#comment-302659 cariaso Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:18:17 +0000 http://mndoci.com/blog/?p=1107#comment-302659 "One topic where I often disagree with people is curation. Many believe we need humans to curate data. I don’t have an answer, but don’t believe that humans scale and we will run into scale issues at some point."<br><br>Where is there is a need to choose? SNPedia looks like its for humans, but much of the content is written by external bots. It isn't a a choice between them -- software needs to do the heavy lifting AND make it easy for people to curate. “One topic where I often disagree with people is curation. Many believe we need humans to curate data. I don’t have an answer, but don’t believe that humans scale and we will run into scale issues at some point.”

Where is there is a need to choose? SNPedia looks like its for humans, but much of the content is written by external bots. It isn't a a choice between them — software needs to do the heavy lifting AND make it easy for people to curate.

]]> By: mndoci http://mndoci.com/2008/11/02/whats-scientific-data-all-about/comment-page-1/#comment-300461 mndoci Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:05:57 +0000 http://mndoci.com/blog/?p=1107#comment-300461 Great point. I've run into many people who think that humans have to examine results to trust the quality. SNPedia is actually a great example of what I am talking about, since it does take care of much of the heavy lifting as you say, while making human curation easier. Great point. I've run into many people who think that humans have to examine results to trust the quality. SNPedia is actually a great example of what I am talking about, since it does take care of much of the heavy lifting as you say, while making human curation easier.

]]> By: cariaso http://mndoci.com/2008/11/02/whats-scientific-data-all-about/comment-page-1/#comment-300460 cariaso Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:18:17 +0000 http://mndoci.com/blog/?p=1107#comment-300460 "One topic where I often disagree with people is curation. Many believe we need humans to curate data. I don’t have an answer, but don’t believe that humans scale and we will run into scale issues at some point."<br><br>Where is there is a need to choose? SNPedia looks like its for humans, but much of the content is written by external bots. It isn't a a choice between them -- software needs to do the heavy lifting AND make it easy for people to curate. “One topic where I often disagree with people is curation. Many believe we need humans to curate data. I don’t have an answer, but don’t believe that humans scale and we will run into scale issues at some point.”

Where is there is a need to choose? SNPedia looks like its for humans, but much of the content is written by external bots. It isn't a a choice between them — software needs to do the heavy lifting AND make it easy for people to curate.

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