NCBO Webinar: Carole Goble, Mar. 16 at 10:00am PT

The next NCBO Webinar will be presented by Dr. Carole Goble from the
University of Manchester on "Social Computing for Scientists: Building
collaborative e-Laboratories" at 10:00am PDT, Wednesday, March 16. Below is
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ABSTRACT:
Web 2.0 notions of social media, social networking and crowd management and
curation of content are increasingly applied to scientific research. Wikis
like GeneWiki and WikiPathways aim at gathering the community around
specific data. Social networks like SciSpace and LabRoots aim to bring
together researchers. Related initiatives like Open Science and Science
Online promote the notion of wider and earlier collaboration and data
sharing.

Over the past five years we have been using social networking and community
collaboration techniques to build collaborative “e-Laboratories” for sharing
data, models, methods and workflows. We particularly focus on the “long
tail” scientist: that is postdocs and students scattered in research labs
and universities.

myExperiment (http://www.myexperiment.org) is a community repository and
virtual research environment that supports the sharing and reuse of
scientific workflows and other kinds of experiment plans and methods. It has
over 4500 registered users and over 1000 deposited workflows from 19
different workflow systems. BioCatalogue (http://www.biocatalogue.org) is a
crowd-curated registry of web services for the life sciences with over 1700
service entries. SEEK (http://www.sysmo-db.org)  is a private community
collaboration and asset sharing platform for Systems Biology models, data
and protocols serving 120 research institutions throughout Europe. MethodBox
(http://www.methodbox.org) is a collaboration environment for sharing
variable sets and statistical methods for analysis across social science
survey data.

In this talk I will discuss our experiences, lessons learnt and open
questions. How do we incentivise scientists to share with people who could
be their rivals? Do they share? When and Why? Do they curate each others
content? Do they reuse and under what conditions? Is reuse of complex
methods possible? How do the original authors get credit? What special
mechanisms do we need to incorporate to protect the intellectual capital of
our scientists and support their contributions? What kind of information do
people share, if any? Does this Web 2.0 thing work for science? How do we
work with scientists and developers to build social computing sites that
work?


SPEAKER BIO:
Carole Goble is a full professor in the School of Computer Science at the
University of Manchester. She has a mission-leading in the Semantic Web,
e-Science, and the Semantic Grid. She applies technical advances in
knowledge technologies and workflow systems to solve information management
problems for life scientists and other scientific disciplines. Her work
makes heavy use of semantic technologies, distributed computing, and social
computing. Her software has been adopted by astronomers, chemists,
musicians, and digital libraries working on data preservation pipelines.

Carole is the director of the myGrid e-Science consortium (
http://www.mygrid.org.uk). myGrid focuses on automated workflow-based
scientific pipelines and e-laboratories for research and researchers. Her
deployed and in use scientific software include: the Taverna workflow system
(http://www.taverna.org.uk) used in over 340 organisations world-wide; the
myExperiment social community for sharing workflows with 3400+ users
worldwide (http://www.myexperiment.org) ; the BioCatalogue, a socially
curated catalogue of bio-web services (http://www.biocatalogue.org);
SysMO-SEEK, a data/models collaboration and sharing platform for a very
large, multi-institute pan-European Systems biology programme (
http://www.sysmo-db.org); and MethodBox, an eLaboratory for sharing and
social networking statistical methods and social survey data (
http://www.methodbox.org). Carole is a partner in the Open Middleware
Infrastructure Institute UK (http://www.omii.ac.uk) and the recently founded
Software Sustainability Institute (http://www.software.ac.uk). She has
accumulated a lot of experience with getting software specialists and
scientists to work together and ensuring that the software gets adoption by
its intended users.

Carole has over 200 publications in semantics and e-Science, giving keynotes
in the major conferences in Grid Computing, Web, Semantics, Digital
Libraries and Bioinformatics. In 2008 she was awarded the inaugural
Microsoft Jim Gray award for outstanding contributions to e-Science and in
2010 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering for her
contributions to e-Science.


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Topic: NCBO Webinar Series
Date: Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Time: 10:00 am, Pacific Daylight Time (San Francisco, GMT-07:00)
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