Comments for Collaborative Librarians http://collaborativelibrarians.org Data don't tell the whole story. Fri, 04 Feb 2011 18:33:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Is “Big Science” better? by Jack H. Pincus http://collaborativelibrarians.org/2011/02/04/is-big-science-better/#comment-152 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 18:33:13 +0000 http://collaborativelibrarians.org/?p=288#comment-152 I enjoyed reading your blog post. You raise an interesting point. The choice of big or small sience depnds on the goal of the researh. Understnding the complexities of human biology requires large interdisciplinary studies and may involve finding minor variations between individuals or normal and disease states Analysis of large datasets is a componenet of these studies. Large dataset analysis may also be necessary for understanding how multiple genes infulence the onset of progression of a disease. Prevention may require an understanding of how a combination of factors leads to a disease or how to intervene at multiple steps of a disease pathway. The type of studies that Sage is doing are designed to shed light on the complexities of human biology.

I agree with you that repositories of data wiithout context are not optimal. But would scientists volunatrily add context if they regard doing so as extra work?

]]> Comment on About by Stephanie Chavez http://collaborativelibrarians.org/about/#comment-22 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:56:36 +0000 #comment-22 I am doing a paper on trends, training, resources, and studies in medical librarianship collaborations (for my medical librarianship class).

I want to include organizations, journals, blogs by librarians and medical professionals. I will definitely be including this blog but I was wondering if you could point me to any other good resources?

Thank You!

]]> Comment on Collaborative science as information problems by Proof « The Collaborative Librarians http://collaborativelibrarians.org/2009/10/14/collaborative-science-as-information-problems/#comment-16 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:40:47 +0000 http://collaborativelibrarians.org/?p=124#comment-16 [...] wrote recently about how the major problems of collaborative research can be conceptualized as information [...]

]]> Comment on SLA Research Grant by The Use of Social Media in Study Recruitment « Significant Science http://collaborativelibrarians.org/sla-research-grant/#comment-15 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:12:41 +0000 http://collaborativelibrarians.wordpress.com/?page_id=4#comment-15 [...] She is an extraordinarily efficient person. Being such, she was recently awarded a research grant to conduct the study, “Experimenting Outside the Information Center: Non-Traditional Roles for Information Professionals… [...]

]]> Comment on SLA Research Grant by Hope Leman http://collaborativelibrarians.org/sla-research-grant/#comment-10 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:15:37 +0000 http://collaborativelibrarians.wordpress.com/?page_id=4#comment-10 This looks absolutely fascinating. Good for you! Will look forward to the write-up of your study.

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