Open Science Workshop

1. Community annotation in
translational biomedical informatics:
Lessons from Wikipedia
Chang Feng Quo gtg801f@mail.gatech.edu
May D Wang, Ph.D. maywang@bme.gatech.edu
Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing
Open Science Workshop
Jan 5th - Jan 9th, 2009
Big Island, Hawai’i

3. • What is Wikipedia?
• Lessons from Wikipedia
• The way forward

4. What is Wikipedia?

5. The Long Tail
Chris Anderson, Wired

6. ca. 09/07
© Robert A. Rohde

7. ca. 09/07
© Robert A. Rohde

8. Crowdsourcing

9. What is Wikipedia?
Long tail economics
Crowdsourcing

11. Lessons from Wikipedia
• Ideological • Operational
– Community access – Scalability
– Consensual reality – Data quality
– Editorial outlook – Ownership

12. Lessons from Wikipedia
• Ideological • Operational
– Community access – Scalability
– Consensual reality – Data quality
– Editorial outlook – Ownership

13. Define and create community access
© 1997-2008 Brian L Dear

14. Lessons from Wikipedia
• Ideological • Operational
– Community access – Scalability
– Consensual reality – Data quality
– Editorial outlook – Ownership

15. The science of (or from?) opinion polls
© 2004 www.coxandforkum.com

16. Lessons from Wikipedia
• Ideological • Operational
– Community access – Scalability
– Consensual reality – Data quality
– Editorial outlook – Ownership

17. © Robert A. Rohde

18. Lessons from Wikipedia
• Ideological • Operational
– Community access – Scalability
– Consensual reality – Data quality
– Editorial outlook – Ownership

20. Lessons from Wikipedia
• Ideological • Operational
– Community access – Scalability
– Consensual reality – Data quality
– Editorial outlook – Ownership

21. Garbage in,

22. Lessons from Wikipedia
• Ideological • Operational
– Community access – Scalability
– Consensual reality – Data quality
– Editorial outlook – Ownership

24. Lessons from Wikipedia
• Ideological • Operational
– Community access – Scalability
– Consensual reality – Data quality
– Editorial outlook – Ownership

26. The way forward

28. 4 key stages of viable techs
1. Right price
2. Market share
3. Displacement
4. Commoditize
Chris Anderson, Wired,
www.ted.com

29. Luca Cremonini