Ένα project το οποίο δυσκολεύομαι ακόμα να καταλάβω το μέγεθός του είναι του Creative Commons. Πέφτοντας σήμερα πάνω στο Health Commons, και μετέπειτα στο Science Commons, είχα την περιέργεια να δω σε τι επιπλέον δραστηριότητες επεκτείνεται το όλο project. Διαπίστωσα ότι υπάρχει και το ccLearn, το οποίο αφορά το open learning και τα open educational resources (OER), για τα οποία είχα μιλήσει στο post για το MIT OpenCourseWare.
Ας τα πάρουμε όμως με μια σειρά. Σχετικά με το Health Commons το οποία ανέφερα και πρώτο, για μια ολοκληρωμένη εικόνα του project κατεβάστε και διαβάστε το “Health Commons: Therapy Development in a Networked World“(pdf).
It’s time to bring the same efficiencies to human health that the network brought to commerce and culture. And to do that, it takes a Commons.
Υπάρχει και μια ενδιαφέρον παρουσίαση για το εγχείρημα.
The Health Commons Vision
Imagine a virtual marketplace or ecosystem where participants share data, knowledge, materials and services to accelerate research. The components might include databases on the results of chemical assays, toxicity screens, and clinical trials; libraries of drugs and chemical compounds; repositories of biological materials (tissue samples, cell lines, molecules), computational models predicting drug efficacies or side effects, and contract services for high-throughput genomics and proteomics, combinatorial drug screening, animal testing, biostatistics, and more. The resources offered through the Commons might not necessarily be free, though many could be. However, all would be available under standard pre-negotiated terms and conditions and with standardized data formats that eliminate the debilitating delays, legal wrangling and technical incompatibilities that frustrate scientific collaboration today.
We envision a Commons where a researcher will be able to order everything needed to replicate a published experiment as easily as ordering DVDs from Amazon. A Commons where one can create a workflow to exploit replicated results on an industrial scale – searching the world’s biological repositories for relevant materials; routing them to the best labs for molecular profiling; forwarding the data to a team of bioinfomaticians for collaborative analysis of potential drug targets; and finally hiring top service providers to run drug screens against those targets; with everything – knowledge, data, and materials – moving smoothly from one provider to the next, monitored and tracked with Fed-Ex precision; where the workflow scripts themselves can become part of the Commons, for others to reuse and improve. Health Commons’ marketplace will slash the time, cost, and risk of developing treatments for diseases. Individual researchers, institutions, and companies will be able to publish information about their expertise and resources so that others in the community can readily discover and use them. Core competencies, from clinical trial design to molecular profiling, will be packaged as turnkey services and made available over the Net. The Commons will serve as the public-domain, non-profit hub, with third-parties providing value added services that facilitate information access, communication, and collaboration.
Το Health Commons όσο και το NeuroCommons αποτελούν υπο-project του Science Commons.
Science Commons has three interlocking initiatives designed to accelerate the research cycle — the continuous production and reuse of knowledge that is at the heart of the scientific method. Together, they form the building blocks of a new collaborative infrastructure to make scientific discovery easier by design.
Making scientific research “re-useful” — We help people and organizations open and mark their research and data sets for reuse. Learn more. -> Scholar’s Copyright Project
Enabling “one-click” access to research materials — We help streamline the materials-transfer process so researchers can easily replicate, verify and extend research. Learn more. -> Biological Materials Transfer Project
Integrating fragmented information sources — We help researchers find, analyze and use data from disparate sources by marking and integrating the information with a common, computer-readable language. Learn more. -> The Neurocommons
Τέλος μιας και ξεκίνησα ανάποδα μερικά video για το τι είναι το Creative Commons.
