Alzforum and SWAN: the present and future of scientific web communities
Alzforum and SWAN: the present and future of scientific web communities
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DOI：
10.1093/bib/bbm012
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发表时间：
2007-05-01
影响因子：
9.5
通讯作者：
Kinoshita, June
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作者：
Clark, Tim;Kinoshita, June
科学家们推动了万维网的早期发展，主要是作为快速通信、文件共享和数据访问的手段。他们在采用网络作为建立研究社区的媒介方面要慢得多。然而，基于网络的社区具有加快科学研究步伐的巨大潜力。在这篇文章中，我们将描述阿尔茨海默氏症研究论坛（“Alzforum”）的10年经验，这是一个蓬勃发展的科学网络社区的独特例子，并解释有助于其成功的功能。然后，我们将概述SWAN（语义网在神经医学中的应用）项目，在该项目中，Alzforum策展人与信息学研究人员合作开发新方法，使社区能够共享有关科学数据，主张和假设的丰富背景信息。
Scientists drove the early development of the World Wide Web, primarily as a means for rapid communication, document sharing and data access. They have been far slower to adopt the web as a medium for building research communities. Yet, web-based communities hold great potential for accelerating the pace of scientific research. In this article, we will describe the 10-year experience of the Alzheimer Research Forum ('Alzforum'), a unique example of a thriving scientific web community, and explain the features that contributed to its success. We will then outline the SWAN (Semantic Web Applications in Neuromedicine) project, in which Alzforum curators are collaborating with informatics researchers to develop novel approaches that will enable communities to share richly contextualized information about scientific data, claims and hypotheses.