tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1303975371294158246.post8742523742315421146..comments2024-03-11T10:02:17.638+00:00Comments on Digital Curation Blog: Wikiproteins...Graham Pryorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12394604548989689232noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1303975371294158246.post-12511275930987397562008-06-02T11:18:00.000+01:002008-06-02T11:18:00.000+01:00Chris, Back in the mid-1990s JISC's eLib programme...Chris, Back in the mid-1990s JISC's eLib programme funded the Open Journal project http://journals.ecs.soton.ac.uk/. You may recall it. There are echoes of that project in the approach to 'knowlets', and the way this information is presented in the Concept Web Linker http://www.wikiprofessional.org/conceptweb/. In the project we did this by creating linkbases from which links were superimposed on digitised journal content (there were few e-journals then). Like the current work, our major exemplar was in the area of life sciences. We thought this was quite a compelling approach that was ahead of its time, as we are now witnessing. Unfortunately little of the Open Journal demos that were created survive, largely because we were working with closed data, provided by the project's publisher partners, that we did not have permission to use beyond the project. What's changed since then is we have vastly increased digital content, open access to much of it, and the wiki framework to support collaborative working on this data. What might follow is a great example of the Semantic Web in action, especially if this framework really does attract a 'million minds' to work on it. It's good to see these ideas re-emerging.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com