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Innovation in research and developmentLatest revision by Borya E Shakhnovich Jan 8th Research and development is supposed to be at the forefront of innovation. However, the problem is that innovation is not an activity that scales well. It is difficult to predict and difficult to scale. The people who are most innovative are like that in spurts. They have periods of inactivity that are punctuated with extreme insight and perhaps even productivity. The challenge for an institution that wants to maintain and grow the level of in...
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Project management in scienceLatest revision by Borya E Shakhnovich Jan 4th Does project management stifle innovation and run contrary to the serendipity of the scientific process. This argument, perhaps valid 30 years ago, can no longer be justified with average laboratory budgets in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. These budgets are equivalent to revenue streams of the majority of small business in America. Moreover, at the departmental scale, tenure decisions and new faculty appointments are intimately tied i...
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Open Access and Self Publishing in the New YearLatest revision by Borya E Shakhnovich Jan 1st A recent blog post from "The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics":http://bit.ly/7quxYa describes the dramatic increase in the number of open access journals and articles. The pace with which scientific content is changing from paid to free is increasing as well. Even for the usually conservative STEM publishing, the past year has proven that the trend towards free content is inescapable and is a direct consequence of the digitization of th...
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Whitepaper on crowdsourcing from our friends at UTestLatest revision by Borya E Shakhnovich Dec 29th, 2009 Crowdsourcing is a new buzz-word which is often used to describe collaborative work on a difficult problem. Some friends at Utest are using this idea to create a collaborative model of software QA testing. This is a very clever application of crowdsourcing because QA benefits from the larger number of testers. That being said, QA testing is just one application of many possible.
Firms that specialize in crowdsourcing problems have tradition...
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Now you can claim your publications inside OrwikLatest revision by Borya E Shakhnovich Dec 8th, 2009 The thing about publishing scientific papers is the complete separation of the author from its readers. We, at Orwik think that authors of scientific papers want to maintain lasting relationships with their readers. So we thought that we would give the science back to the scientists.
Have you ever needed to set up a website for Supplementary Materials or just wanted to share the manuscript with everyone instead of sending reprints to every p...
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Congratulations to the participants of the OMOP cup competitionLatest revision by Borya E Shakhnovich Nov 30th, 2009 Over the last several months the "Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership":http://omopcup.orwik.com have been running a competition to find the best methods and algorithms for predicting drug - outcomes interactions. The deadline for the "competitions":http://omopcup.orwik.com/competitions is fast approaching at 11:59 EST. If you didn't get a chance to submit this time, don't despair. This is only the first part of a two-part challenge. The...
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Deflationary pressures in scienceLatest revision by Borya E Shakhnovich Nov 28th, 2009 In this world of economic crises and slacking demand, there is another Exponential Economy that is similarly in dire straits. The scientific knowledge of the world has been growing at an exponential rate with average compound growth of 4.8% for the last 50 years.
That's on the supply side. So what about demand? Who needs 10 Million Scientific Articles and what do they need it for? Most importantly, is the world of scientific knowledge undergo...
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I am not a scientist, I am a numberLatest revision by Borya E Shakhnovich Nov 28th, 2009 In a recent article, our good friends Phil Bourne and J. Lynn Fink wrote about a new system championed by Thomson Reuters. The system is based on the OpenID system and is cleverly dubbed ResearcherID. The system ties in your profile and your published materials with a number thus el...
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Valuing Information in ScienceLatest revision by Borya E Shakhnovich Nov 28th, 2009 One of the hardest things to do in science is put a value on information. So what prevents us from doing the same thing with science as we do with our latte's every day: Coming in and saying, "This piece of data is worth X dollars." The problems stem from inefficiencies of how we communicate and distribute scientific progress.
If we were to look at academic science as a marketplace, what would we learn? Lets start with defining the players. ...
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Mission StatementLatest revision by Borya E Shakhnovich Nov 22nd, 2009 Our mission at Orwik is to help scientists, institutions and organizations accelerate the process of discovery and enable translational research by building sustainable, inter-disciplinary communities.
Created by a team of scientists, engineers and early adopters, we have designed a best-in-class platform guaranteed to transform collaboration, discovery and dissemination of new science.
Using Orwik, researchers can exchange and discuss ongoi...
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Come join us for the launch partyLatest revision by Borya E Shakhnovich Nov 20th, 2009 The launch party will take place on
Fri Nov 20th at 6pm at
230 Lake ave
Newton ctr
Members of the press and interested parties welcome.
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Launch Party Press ReleaseLatest revision by Borya E Shakhnovich Nov 20th, 2009 We're holding a launch party (more details to follow here), but here's the press release:
h1. Orwik is Hosting a Launch Party
Orwik is holding a launch party on Fri Nov20 at 230 Lake st. in Newton MA. The launch party will feature live music and an art exhibition showing art work from Boston and New York. Orwik welcomes members of the press and interested parties to attend.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Press Release) – Nov 20, 2009 – Orwik ...
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Poetry of SpaceLatest revision by Borya E Shakhnovich Nov 20th, 2009 Here at Orwik, we're happy to announce that we're hosting a Launch party with art from NY curated by Dina Brodsky. Some of the art on show is pictures below. We're very happy to have Dina and her friends support Orwik with her innovative art.
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Support for large files on OrwikLatest revision by Borya E Shakhnovich Oct 22nd, 2009 Over the past week and a half we have been working very hard here at Orwik central. Not that we slack off at other times, but we're really excited about some new developments that we want to share with you.
First, we come up with a great new logo for the site. You're going to see a new mascot here soon as well. We've also created a new support site. You can access this site at "help.orwik.com":http://help.orwik.com. Over the next couple of...
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Policy versus PracticeLatest revision by Borya E Shakhnovich Oct 22nd, 2009 This is going to be a short post/vent about the recent rash of Open Access Policies brought forth by leading Universities. Harvard was one of the first Universities to declare support for an Open Access Policy. Press releases followed, such as this one here and the more sensational one about the MIT policy Why Open Access Advocates Don't Tell the Whole Truth
Latest revision by Borya E Shakhnovich Oct 4th, 2009 The Open Access movement is a relatively recent development where scientists argue that the papers they publish should be free for all to read. In turn, the publishers argue that they provide a useful service in the form of editing and peer-review that costs money and should be compensated. Elsevier, for example, gets compensated to the tune of 10B dollars a year.
Open Access advocates, of which I am one, use a common argument to support thei...
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Orwik : The Open Science PlatformLatest revision by Borya E Shakhnovich Oct 3rd, 2009 Today, I will start, what will inevitably become a new staple in my life: Blogging for Orwik. Orwik is a new company that will revolutionize the way that science is done in academia and elsewhere.
The major problem with science today is that scientists are people. Sure, we all want to do science for the pure fascination of the subject, but we also want to be respected for the science we do, we want to have the resources to do the science we w...
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