conceptweballiance openaccess
jwilbanks | May 12, 2009I was invited to join a meeting last week in New York to kick off something called the "Concept Web Alliance." It's an emerging non profit hoping to stimulate the emergence of lots and lots of marked-up content from the life sciences and it's claiming the mantle of open access. The potential value of a concept web is essentially the same idea as the semantic web, but with a little more savvy about branding - we can have a computable web of data linked into the literature, and a better way of asking very precise questions of a massively complex data space if the information has more structure…