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Publishing in the 21st century: Minimal (really) data standards

Submitted by Maryann Martone on Sat, 2012-08-11 00:43

The following were a set of recommendations that arose from a workshop held at NIH in August 2010 as part of the Link Animal Models to Human Disease (LAMHDI), a database of animal models that allows cross-species searching. It is still relevant, although it probably needs updating, e.g., full URI's not just identifiers. Nevertheless, I believe it is still useful to consider the struggles that curators (and by extension, computers) have in identifying key entities within a scientific paper.

Publishing in the 21st century:  Minimal (really) data standards

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From scarce narratives to abundant fragments and back again: Plotting a future for efficient scholarly communication

Submitted by Cameron Neylon on Tue, 2012-07-24 11:36

The research paper is a comfortable and familiar form of communication for researchers in
the sciences and humanities. The paper contains a narrative -- often actually two narratives:
a story about the findings themselves and a story about how those findings were discovered
and tested. Both of these stories are necessarily fictions. One is a model, a summary of the
findings, and all models are incomplete. The second will, by convention, pose a clearly defined
question which is in turn, clearly answered by data. This is of course never how the actual study