Webinar on Social Computing for Scientists: Building collaborative e-Laboratories, by Carole Goble
Carole Goble presented a Webinar on Social Computing for Scientists: Building collaborative e-Laboratories for the NCBO, on March 16th 2011. (Slides)
This featured MyExperiment, BioCatalogue, SEEK, and MethodBox.
“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.”
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“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?”