Fwd: mention of neuro-oriented SemWeb efforts at the PubMed Plus mtg going on today & tomorrow

Ooops - I wrote this e-mail early yesterday before I realized Eric N  
is here as well!

I would say both Eric N, Eric M, John, and Elizabeth have been doing  
a wonderful job helping to inform the discussions here regarding the  
value and appropriateness of semantic web technologies and best  
practices as they relate to the issues of scientific discourse,  
publishing and data sharing being discussed at this meeting.

Cheers,
Bill

Begin forwarded message:

> From: William Bug <William.Bug@DrexelMed.edu>
> Date: June 19, 2007 12:02:23 AM CDT
> To: public-semweb-lifesci hcls <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
> Subject: mention of neuro-oriented SemWeb efforts at the PubMed  
> Plus mtg going on today & tomorrow
>
> Hi All,
>
> Eric Miller, John Wilbanks, Elizabeth Wu, myself, and approximately  
> 75 other experts in neuroinformatics and the neuroscience  
> publishing community are at the Pub Med Plus meeting sponsored by  
> the Society for Neuroscience, NIH Blueprint project, and the  
> NeuroCommons/SC.
>
> Floyd Bloom (venerable neuroscientist/neuroinformaticist and former  
> managing editor of 'Science') just gave the plenary talk on the  
> evolution of scientific publishing from the mid-17th century up to  
> today, where he noted current worthy efforts in "new" forms of  
> publishing and "promising starts".  Amongst those "new" efforts Dr.  
> Bloom cited were the SWAN project, work by the Yale SenseLab group,  
> the BIRNLex ontology, and the BMC Bioinformatics HCLS IG article  
> Kei shepherded into publication last December. Dr. Bloom is a  
> senior neuroscientist who's been intimately involved with the  
> publication of scientific information throughout the last 30 years  
> but has had no direct involvement either with the HCLS IG or any of  
> the other cited groups, nor has he had any direct experience using  
> Semantic Web technologies.  I believe this makes his recognition  
> these efforts all the more compelling.
>
> Kudos to all.
>
> Cheers,
> Bill
>
> Bill Bug
> Senior Research Analyst/Ontological Engineer
>
> Laboratory for Bioimaging  & Anatomical Informatics
> www.neuroterrain.org
> Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy
> Drexel University College of Medicine
> 2900 Queen Lane
> Philadelphia, PA    19129
> 215 991 8430 (ph)
> 610 457 0443 (mobile)
> 215 843 9367 (fax)
>
>
> Please Note: I now have a new email - William.Bug@DrexelMed.edu
>
>
>
>



Bill Bug
Senior Research Analyst/Ontological Engineer

Laboratory for Bioimaging  & Anatomical Informatics
www.neuroterrain.org
Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy
Drexel University College of Medicine
2900 Queen Lane
Philadelphia, PA    19129
215 991 8430 (ph)
610 457 0443 (mobile)
215 843 9367 (fax)


Please Note: I now have a new email - William.Bug@DrexelMed.edu