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How do you evaluate a database?

Submitted by Maryann Martone on Fri, 2013-05-03 01:00

I was speaking with a colleague recently who, like many of us, had experienced the frustration of trying to support his on-line resources. He has assembled a comprehensive on-line resource, it is used by the community and was used by others to publish their studies. It is not Genbank or EBI; it is one of the thousands of on-line databases created by individuals or small groups that the Neuroscience Information Framework and others have catalogued. My colleague has spent years on this resource, pored over hundreds of references and entered close to a mill

What is your lab's "Data Management" workflow?

Submitted by Jonathan Cachat on Sun, 2013-04-28 12:34

A number of groups, from libraries and universities and academic projects are striving to implement flexible data management systems in order to harness the latest and greatest in semantic web technologies striving to integrate and facilitate breakthrough interdisciplinary analysis.

What would you do with 1K to make research communication better?

Submitted by Maryann Martone on Thu, 2013-04-18 13:47

At the recent Beyond the PDF2 meeting, FORCE11 issued the "1K Challenge" : What would you do to make research communication for 1K that doesn't involve building another tool?

Hackathon, extracting meaningful, machine-interpretable data from scholarly publications

Submitted by Alex Garcia-Castro on Mon, 2013-04-15 06:43

Hi all, we would like to organize a Hackathon while at the ESWC.

We want to do it on Monday, May 27 in Montpillier, France.

Measuring Non-standard research impact?

Submitted by Ehsan Mohammadi on Mon, 2013-03-18 07:36

Citation analysis is the dominate method for research assessment but it is not perfect. Although citation-based metrics have been improved to evaluate research performance more effectively, all the measures have some inherent limitations rooted in the nature of citation practice. Altmetrics is a new movement which tries to find complementary measures for traditional metrics based on scholars’ activities on the social web platforms. In my PhD project I focus on new measure to capture non-traditional research impact based on altmetrics tools.

Call for OpenCourseWare to be published at SlideWiki.org

Submitted by Ali Khalili on Wed, 2013-03-06 15:10

In the last months we were working on the collaborative educational content authoring platform http://SlideWiki.org
SlideWiki allows to create richly structured presentations comprising slides, self-test questionnaires, illustrations etc.

SlideWiki features include:

Force11 Retrospective

Submitted by Gully Burns on Mon, 2013-03-04 16:36

The first Force11 meeting, held at Daghstuhl on the 28th of October 2011, generated the first glimmers of a community-driven effort to fashion and shape the future of scientific communication and in so doing created the Force 11 Manifesto. This strategic plan highlighted challenges and made recommendations for researchers, publishers and funders to push forward key pieces of the community's underlying mission.

Scholarly Communication 101: Improving data literacy

Submitted by Maryann Martone on Mon, 2013-02-18 03:41

For several months now, I've been seriously toying with the idea of creating a set of materials to help scholars increase their "data literacy". This issue is an important one for FORCE11, as the ability to make data readily available is one of the core drivers of advances in scholarly communication. Surely, you might ask, scholars understand data. Don't scientists generate and work with data all the time? Yes, they surely do. Biologists in particular are data generating machines. But traditionally, scholars haven't published the actual data; rather, they publish papers about

Scholarly Communication 101

Submitted by Maryann Martone on Tue, 2012-12-18 15:06

The new world of scholarly communication and e-scholarship is potentially a confusing one, with much opinion about where it should go at this point, but perhaps with little empirical evidence to back up claims. This is a first in a series of blogs where we provide some explanation and useful matrials on various topics under the tag: Scholarly Communication 101. These are not meant to be exhaustive, just useful. As always, feel free to add your own, and comment as needed.

"Changing the culture of scientific publishing from within" - NeuroChambers Blog Post

Submitted by Jonathan Cachat on Wed, 2012-12-05 03:46

A recent post by Chris Chambers, neuroscientist at Cardiff University, recently had a post that is highly relevant to the FORCE11 Community. It contains an letter written to Cortex, where Chris is an associate editor, pitching a reform for the journal: a new kind of empirical article called a Registration Report, which would involve peer review of research methodology prior to data collection. In can be summarized nicely by his image below, but for the whole story I invite you to read the full post here: