NaCTeM developments

Really good to see the latest Mental Health demonstrator from the ASSERT project: http://nactem3.mc.man.ac.uk:8080/ASSERT_Refactored/. I really like the visualisation - I think this will really help social scientists get to grips with text mining and has the potential to facilitate and speed up the systematic review process.

And in a nice join up between two of my projects (NaCTeM and CO-ODE), NaCTeM has released its TerMine Plugin for Protégé. The plugin "uses text mining tools to extract candidate terms from a corpus of text and provides an interface for rapidly bringing these terms into an OWL ontology. It uses the TerMine term extraction tool provided by NaCTeM to extract concepts from text. The plugin accesses TerMine via a Web Service over the Internet."
The plugin can be downloaded from http://www.co-ode.org/downloads/protege-x/plugins/

Also worth mentioning the Kleio demonstrator http://nactem4.mc.man.ac.uk:8080/Kleio/ developed from Phase 1 of NaCTeM.

BT using social networking internally

Computing (3 Apr 08) features a story on how BT is using social networking to encourage more team working and collaboration across the organisation. One area where they are seeing benefit is in collaboration across industry sectors internationally e.g. security experts around the world are able to share knowledge much more easily; and it's now easier to see how different sectors may learn from one another. BT is also using a wiki on a major project (21CN - 21st Century Network) to share understanding.

New classification scheme for research in Australia and New Zealand

"The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and Statistics New Zealand (Statistics NZ) have
jointly developed ANZSRC to serve as a standard research classification for both
countries. It will improve the comparability of research and development statistics
between the two countries and the rest of the world. For the ABS and Australian
stakeholders, ANZSRC replaces the Australian Standard Research Classification (ASRC
1998) and for Statistics NZ and New Zealand stakeholders ANZSRC introduces a new
framework to measure R&D activity."
http://www.ausstats.abs.gov.au/ausstats/subscriber.nsf/0/2A3A6DB3F4180D03CA25741A000E25F3/$File/12970_2008.pdf

Ocean science projects using OGC standards

The latest OGC newsletter features a short overview of ocean science projects using OGC standards: http://www.opengeospatial.org/pressroom/newsletters/200803. The list of projects includes MOTIIVE on which the new COMPASS project is built.

web2.0 and impact on science

Just tidying up bloglines and came across this in Scientific American on web2.0 and science
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=science-2-point-0-great-new-tool-or-great-risk

Tips on avoiding scope creep

More tips from the BCS ... on scope creep including involving users in process mapping; involving stakeholders in project planning; managing risks, assumptions and issues.
http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.17185

Presentation of project information

Some nice tips from BCS on presenting ad hoc project presentations and thinking of different and interesting ways of presenting updates....
http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.8884