Re: scientific publishing task force update

Yes - please do post your references, John.  They are very relevant  
to this discussion, and I would certainly profit from getting the  
chance to peruse them.

Being in Oak Ridge, have you overlapped at all with the various  
bioinformatics groups at ORNL?  One in particular who would be very  
much interested in some of the issues you mention below would be  
Elissa Chesler (http://www.utmem.edu/neuroscience/faculty/ 
E_Chesler.php).  Elissa is a geneticist and biostatistician who has  
done seminal work in constructing gene networks from mouse genetic  
variability data (QTL studies) with a focus on how the variability in  
such networks relate to nervous system molecular, meso-structural,  
and functional variability.  Elissa is one of the PIs on the newly  
established,  multi-lab, collaborative-cross project which I believe  
is based out of ORNL.  (please correct me on any of these statements,  
Elissa, if I'm off on some of the details).

Though not directly involved in semantic web technologies per se, she  
is very much aligned with the overall goal of building out biomedical  
KR from the data on up, and as a mathematician at heart, I'm certain  
she'd be interested in hearing more about what you mention in this post.

Plus - I assume - she's right across town from you.  :-)

I hope you don't mind, but I've taken the liberty to cc her on this  
post.

Cheers,
Bill

On Jun 9, 2006, at 1:05 PM, John Rumble wrote:

> There has been some important work done on this subject over the  
> last 20 years. A. Shoshoni, F. Olken and others wrote some very  
> insightful papers about differentiating between different types of  
> independent variables in an experiment. I have given several talks  
> in recent years about the problem of evolving scientific knowledge  
> and changing scientific language and how that impacts capturing a  
> description of an experiment. I especially  have focused on how new  
> knowledge about independent variables is inevitable and how that  
> affects ontology development and data integration efforts. I can  
> send these along to whomever is interested.
>
> John
>
> Dr. John Rumble
> Technical Director
> Information International Associates
> Oak Ridge TN
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> jrumble@iiaweb.com
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: AJ Chen
> To: public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org
> Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 1:09 AM
> Subject: scientific publishing task force update
>
> I have created a wiki page for the Scientific Publishing task  
> force, please see http://esw.w3.org/topic/HCLS/ 
> ScientificPublishingTaskForce
>
> The first task is to develop an ontology for self-publishing of  
> experiment. I have proposed a list of objects and properties  
> related to self-publishing experiment. Please download the attached  
> file under Task Status and review the proposal. Your feedback and  
> comments will be greatly appreciated.  You may also edit the file  
> directly and email me the edited file.
>
> It's critical to have more talents to engage in the task force and  
> its tasks. Let me know if you are interested in join the task. If  
> you have any new idea for a new task, please make a proposal and  
> share with the group.
>
> Thanks,
> AJ
>

Bill Bug
Senior Analyst/Ontological Engineer

Laboratory for Bioimaging  & Anatomical Informatics
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Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy
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