by ginger | Jul 2, 2014 | crowdsourcing, Gene Wiki, science, sulab, wiki, wikipedia, wisdom of the crowd, work
Professor Murray Jennex is an information systems whiz. He would start his classes on Information Security and Decision Support Systems with an open and frank discussion on relevant current affairs. During one of these discussions he raised a question regarding the...
by Andrew Su | Jun 8, 2013 | collective intelligence, community-annotation, crowdsourcing, database, genomics, wiki, wikipedia
Model organism databases are great. They span a spectrum of model organisms as diverse as mouse, rat, fly, worm, zebrafish, yeast, and E. coli. And they fulfill key roles for their respective communities, from warehousing key genomic data, to providing query and...
by eclarke | Apr 30, 2012 | Gene Wiki, genewiki+, mashup, semantic web, semantic wikipedia, SPARQL, wiki, wikipedia
Our presentation at the Semantic MediaWiki Conference was a smashing hit! I discussed the software we developed to create GeneWiki+, which we’ve christened mwsync. Mwsync is a cool little Java framework that makes it easy to maintain a live mirror of any...
by bgood | Mar 22, 2012 | Gene Wiki, genewiki+, semantic links, semantic web, semantic wikipedia, sulab, SWL, wiki
A while back, I posted an entry here called “Stepping towards a Semantic Wikipedia” that quickly became the most-visited post on this blog. Today, after several months of waiting, I discovered by accident that the official peer-reviewed article on...
