Onderstaand artikel gaat over de trends in Science 2.0

Link: http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2961/2573

Met dank aan: Wilfred Mijnhardt

Samenvatting:

• Iedereen is auteur en schrijft blogs en tweets (microblog): artikelen met workflow “werk, schrijf, publiceer” daalt. (publish-then-filter approach)

• Meer gefragmenteerde wetenschappelijke output met ‘draft’ status

• Open peer review/discussies van deze wetenschappelijke fragmenten (“Liquid science”)

• Hiervoor moeten alle wetenschappelijke fragmenten publiekelijk toegankelijk zijn

• Alle wetenschappelijke fragmenten worden relationeel met elkaar verbonden, ook de discussies en commentaren zijn waardevol in het wetenschappelijke kenniscreatie proces.

• Wetenschap wordt vergeleken met de “cultural goods market”; wetenschappelijke output met muziek in de entertainment industrie. Wetenschap gaat dezelfde trend door als de entertainement industrie die zich kenmerkt door i) uncertain demand; (ii) short period of profitability; (iii) infinite variety of supply; and, (iv) vertical differentiation of markets.

• • Zoals in de creatieve industrie regelen wetenschappelijke communities de distributie en peer review van de wetenschappelijke fragmenten zelf.
  • De rol van uitgevers als “quality control gatekeeper” wordt op de proefgesteld. Zij moeten het gaan hebben van peer-review services.

• Information overload en reputation management: “trusted filter services” zorgen ervoor dat de juiste persoon de juiste schifting in informatie krijgt aangereikt.  Referenties en links naar deze wetenschappelijke fragmenten vormen het nieuwe reputatie model.

• Reputatie managment wordt het allerbelangrijkste in thet wetenschappelijke communicatie proces. Hiervoor is het van belang dat er zeer betrouwbare reputatie management systemen komen, die open en transparant te werk gaan. (MV: Google is niet open genoeg?) (MV: een betrouwbare Digital Author Identifier is van belang) (MV: horen usage statistics ook bij deze reputatie?)

• Nieuw wetenschappelijk beleid is noodzakelijk om het nieuwe reputatie model niet de overhand te laten krijgen, waar in die lijn, met resources/budgeten gestuurd wordt richting instellingen en individuen met de meeste reputatie. Het niewue beleid moet ervoor zorgen dat “second-tier science” (MV: HBO?) een kans krijgen de wetenschappelijke kennis door te laten vloeien in de rest van de maatschappij.

[presentation by Ben Bosman, @mire]

@mire has build a GUI for statistics on Dspace at the administrator side.

User requirments: a survey has been held. Repository managers would like to see the popularity of items, collectiions or communities.

Technology: They use Apache Solr (fork of Lucene) for indexing and fast search and faceted browsing.

Advantages: statistics are context aware. This means the items are aware of the D-space hierarchy, group items, bitstream and pageviews

Visualize: using the SOLR faceted search, the popular items, collections and communities can be easily shown in matter of milliseconds. This can be represented in charts, and data tables.

Reporting: Also an reporting function is available where the administrator can create reports with the facets they like by the press of a button. This can be exported in different wordprocessing formats and dataformats.

thoughts and possibilities

Within Knowledge Exchange “Usage Statistics” strand the country initiatives PIRUS (UK), OAstatistik (DE) and SURE (NL) are working together to create Guidelines to facilitate the exchange of Usage Statistics. These statistics come from distributed repositories and will be stored in a central database. This database will provide an API where the statistics data can be used in GUI services.

OpenAIRE is creating a GUI with the datavisualisation API’s from Google. (Like we have seen in the presentation about Usage statistics and Google Analytics) However, according to Ben Bosman it is very risky to rely on third party visualisations you cannot control. API specifications can change and the visual design can change.

I was thinking about using the GUI from @mire. In theory it could work, becouse their internal format for storing usage events look very similar to the OpenURL Context Objects. However Ben was very reserved when this idea was postulated. He told me that their GUI is tightly integrated with the Dspace  framework. The eye-candy of their module is great, but it is not OpenSource. This might not be a deadend. We could discover some posibilities.

What is needed to create a GUI with either OpenAIRE or @mire

1. User requirements study: what type of person/role needs what type of information.
2. @mire GUI: A repository tab in the administrator GUI
3. @mire GUI: the xml format they are using for usage events needs to be mapped to the KE format for OpenURL Context Objects. It is quite similar so an XSL might do the trick.

Tip for the people who are implementing OAI-PMH statistics services on repositories. (Dspace, Fedora, eprint)

If you want transmit the Geo location of countries or Cities with the OpenURL Context Objects before scrambling the ip-address, you can use GeoLite. A free version of the mapping of ip-addresses to countries and cities. An API implementation can be used.

"trapped in the dark" from tascha@flicker

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Doing research is creating value to information. Knowledge building upon knowledge. This chain can be created in enhanced publications, where ordinary web resources are collected en semantically related to enhanced publications. The semantic relations are important for future applications in the semantic web.

Currently I am reading the book “Enterprise Architecture at Work“. Chapter 3 describes the importance of the communication to all the stakeholders. Also Architecture is finding the balance between the right level of abstraction. My job is to have a proof-of-concept Infrastructure ready in 2010 for enhanced publications. What I would like to do is to let the SURF community work on this architecture. Starting with an abstract model where they can zoom in to fill in the details.

This only describes the workflow. We need to have architecture sessions to describe the building blocks, used in the DYA framework. Connections and interfaces and standards for these interfaces need to be described. And soon after that, there needs to be several proof of concepts.

12-17 januari 2010 komt reisleraar Peter Gomez uit Karma Guen (Spanje) naar Nederland om een bezoek te brengen aan een aantal van onze Diamantweg centra en daar lezingen te geven. De lezingen worden gegeven in het Engels. Om de reiskosten te betalen vragen we een bijdrage van 7 euro per lezing.

Iedereen van harte welkom!

groetjes, Sander

www.diamantweg-boeddhisme.nl

Some people might get the feeling that they can read the mind of another person in occasions like in an intense conversation two people have. Most of the time they just ignore this observation because in western tradition it is not an accepted as a valid sensory experience.

In the field of parapsychology studies are made that prove the “mind reader” effect over and over again in the disputed Ganzfeld (whole field, German) experiments. These are statistical evidence based experiments where a sensory blocked person in a cabin is asked to see the pictures another person in the same room is looking at. These experiments are disputed because of the unclear data aggregation and the methodological errors.  Just as in medicine the proof exists that the drug Paracetamol reduces headache and blood pressure because of statistical evidence. Both studies describe the phenomenon by measuring the input and output and work with control mechanisms to rule out unwanted effects. However showing statistical evidence does not mean that we understand how it might work.

In the field of quantum physics there is a theory called the “Zero Point Field Theory” or “Vacuum state” that might explain the “mind reader” effect. However this theory has almost increased to religious proportions in the area of pseudo-science. Very creative people who relate more value to this theory than its original intent. Sadly I soon appear to become one of those

According to the article “The amazing promises of the Zero Point Field” by Tijn Touber in the Ode Magazine issue of November 2003, information about occurrences is available in the Zero Point Field despite of time and space. Proof for this phenomenon has been proved by Physicist Hall Puthoff of Stanford University in  336 comparable experiments. I haven’t researched the success rate of these experiments, or whether these experiments have been validated by peers, but I trust that there is a valid significant effect.

Theory

In this section I will describe the Vacuum state, quantum teleportation, and quantum effects in the brain influencing brain activity.

Describing the characteristics of the Vacuum state. The vacuum state in quantum physics is not a physical vacuum. It is a vacuum of time and space where particles are constantly popping in and out of existence resulting in a nothingness, as if nothing has ever occurred. Evidence for this field is the back-ground gamma radiation all around us. This low level gamma-ray radiation occurs when a positive and negative particle pop into existence, but failing to dissolve to each other  completely leaving behind energy in the form of gamma radiation.

A second phenomenon in the quantum field is called quantum teleportation. It transfers quantum information, a qubit, from one quantum system to another.

A third phenomenon in the neuroscience, and a key to quantum computing, is that quantum effects occur when the brain fires millions of electrical pulses through neurones, influencing memories, thoughts and other brain functionalities. See: Quantum Physics in Neuroscience and Psychology: A New Theory With Respect to Mind/Brain Interaction, Schwartz, J.M. and Stapp, Henry P. and Beauregard, M, Download URL, Journal: arXiv.org, Year: 2004. See also: Quantum Computation in Brain Microtubules? The Penrose-Hameroff ‘Orch OR’ Model of Consciousness [and Discussion], by Stuart Hameroff and P. Marcer © 1998 The Royal Society.

Conclusion

Mixing the three phenomena together might fit a sound description for explaining the “mind reading” effect.

a. a field or vacuum state that holds and transfers quantum information

b. quantum information can be teleported/duplicated from one quantum system to another through that vacuum state at the same time.

c. quantum effects have influence on brain/mind functions.

It might be so that the brain B is able to emit or broadcast quantum information to a receptor brain R. The brain R might be very receptical to quantum information in the Zero Point Field that costs less energy to change its state.

Discussion

Malcom Gladwell argues in his book “Blink” that people can make decisions in a blink of an eye, if they are receptive for cues they get from sensory information, and have a lot of experience in a certain field of expertise. The brain is trained to recognise the patterns it has learned from years of training. Such as an art expert can see in a blink of an eye whether a piece of art is original or a fraud. This might conclude that mind reading in a conversation one has, is that two people might know the context and the progress of a conversation so well they almost could fill in each other’s sentences, just because humans by nature are experts in having a conversation especially in subjects they love to talk about.

Future work

The question remains; how creates the broadcasting brain a quantum tunnel for transferring quantum information to influence the thoughts of another receptor brain? Why just that particular receptor brain, and not others? Are the other brains blocking the noize of all the quantum information that occurs in the vacuum state, just like people can hear another person speak in a noisy room?

Discussion – off-topic

A non related question goes further: If the quantum information in the zero point field is not related tot space and time, can we train our brains to look into the past, future and other galaxies? (like the Space Navigators in Frank Herbert’s Dune novels) See also: Engineering the Zero-Point Field and Polarizable Vacuum For Interstellar Flight, H. E. Puthoff, S. R. Little, M. Ibison, arXiv:astro-ph/0107316v2

Further reading

• Quantum Computing: The Future may be Nearer Than we Think, June 29, 2005 science@berkeley lab

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I present to you here Google Knol, and Diigo

Google’s KNOL for Creating Knowlets
http://knol.google.com

Diigo annotation tool for annotating existing websites and blogs as a meta layer.
Diigo.com

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Mark. Enterprise Service Bus:enterprise service bus [Internet]. Versie 8. Knol. 2008 aug. 28. Beschikbaar vanaf: http://knol.google.com/k/mark/enterprise-service-bus/2ztgdpt515s4g/7.

http://www.mulesoft.org/display/COMMUNITY/Meet+Mule

Object Reuse and Exchange (ORE) is a framework for creating collections of related scientific work. ORE an initiative of the Open Archives Initiative (OAI). Web resources can be related to one another in a semantic web machine readable way. The collections or aggregations of web resources can be stored in distributed locations such as web pages and online archives. This in contrast to web services that are locking-in the data, so other users are obliged to use the same service.

When many many aggregations are made one is able to discover or detect other web resources related to another. For example a publication C can be discovered that has used the same data set B as does publication A.

The video below shows a firefox plugin that is able to visually create aggregations of web resources. It is called aus-e-lit and will be available in January 2010.

More at: http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~eresearch/projects/aus-e-lit/

This system has a few drawbacks for now that we see, that should be read as suggested improvements.

• the plug-in uses the API‘s of the Fedora Commons archive directly. This should be a SWORD APP (Atom Publication Profile) client. SWORD is an interoperable protocol that can be used by far more archives.
• The content of the send aggregation should then be in RDF, standardised according to the Enhanced Publications object model delivered in the European DRIVER-II project.
• The fields the user has to fill-out are Library-minded. The namespace prefixes that are used, such as dc: and ore:, doesn’t bring the researcher any value-added information, even might confuse the user.

Enhanced Publication object model, defined in the European project DRIVER-II in 2008

just a quick note. have to write a story about.

This concerns our generation where energy consumption is based on oil. Everything we know and think about is oil, and we have degrades our anchient methods to absorb a setback.
Not sustainability but resilience.

According to … “We worship energy, war is fought for what we worship”.

How to make a transition between the oil era and the resilience era. http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/696

a long documentary http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-665674869982904386#

background info http://www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse/chapter-1-three-beliefs

Ok, it is not only oil reserves are decreasing. it is also fresh water, and fosforous. The basic elements that we need as an ecological system to survive.

Our generation has to take responsibility.