Calling International Rescue: knowledge lost in literature and data landslide!
Calling International Rescue: knowledge lost in literature and data landslide!
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DOI：
10.1042/bj20091474
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发表时间：
2009-12-10
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Thorne D
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作者：
Attwood TK;Kell DB;McDermott P;Marsh J;Pettifer SR;Thorne D
我们生活在有趣的时期。提出问题的数据：有很多可用的信息，我们根本不再知道我们所知道的，而我们想要的是很难的 - 我们寻求的知识通常是零碎的和脱节的，稀疏了在成千上万的期刊中，数以千计的数据库和数百万篇文章。和科学记录的知识。生物化学期刊的实验问题，当您阅读时，我们邀请您与我们进行实验，这是对新技术的实时测试，以从已发表的文档的休眠页面中拯救数据。请仔细阅读说明。
We live in interesting times. Portents of impending catastrophe pervade the literature, calling us to action in the face of unmanageable volumes of scientific data. But it isn't so much data generation per se, but the systematic burial of the knowledge embodied in those data that poses the problem: there is so much information available that we simply no longer know what we know, and finding what we want is hard – too hard. The knowledge we seek is often fragmentary and disconnected, spread thinly across thousands of databases and millions of articles in thousands of journals. The intellectual energy required to search this array of data-archives, and the time and money this wastes, has led several researchers to challenge the methods by which we traditionally commit newly acquired facts and knowledge to the scientific record. We present some of these initiatives here – a whirlwind tour of recent projects to transform scholarly publishing paradigms, culminating in Utopia and the Semantic Biochemical Journal experiment. With their promises to provide new ways of interacting with the literature, and new and more powerful tools to access and extract the knowledge sequestered within it, we ask what advances they make and what obstacles to progress still exist? We explore these questions, and, as you read on, we invite you to engage in an experiment with us, a real-time test of a new technology to rescue data from the dormant pages of published documents. We ask you, please, to read the instructions carefully. The time has come: you may turn over your papers…