Google is said to be preparing to launch a massive repository of science data at research.google.com.
The project, known internally as “Palimpsest” will become a home for terabytes of open-source scientific datasets built on the data visualization technology from Trendalyzer.
According to a Wired report, the storage will be free to all scientists, access to the data will be free for all and the new site will have YouTube-style annotating and commenting features.
Two planned datasets are 120 terabytes of data from the Hubble Space Telescope and images from the Archimedes Palimpsest.
We thought Google knew everything, now it will know even more.
“We thought Google knew everything, now it will know even more”
It is starting to get a little scary now. The world needs an alternative to google and soon.
Similar to Google docs storage - does this mean that any research scientists undertake using this data need to be accessible by Google?
They really aren’t kidding with when they stride to ‘organize the world’
Kudos to Google and a great initiative.
I just went ahead and made a list of information that google knows about me. Here is how the list looks like
1. All my search
2. Entire content on my laptop
3. My home address
4. My credit card information
5. My online income
6. Complete detail about my users.
You can see my thought on the topic at http://binaryday.com/2008/01/1.....-about-me/
Please leave your comments about it on my blog as I will really like to know the views of TC users on this topic.
@Duncan, I hope that you do not mind my posting link to my blogpost in the comments section. The only reason I am doing so is because I will like to have a good discussion about this topic. However if you feel that I am getting the comments off topic, then please feel free to delete this comment.
How on earth do you pronounce “Palimpsest”? I guess it doesnt really matter - all the science nuts around the world probably use this word 50 times a day.
I’ve been wondering about Google’s relationship with the pharmaceutical industry. Further to the comment above on all the information collected to date by Google, sadly, it’s inevitable that contextual ads for this massive sector appear on your screens for a very real reason. It’s nauseatingly brilliant…
>… now it will know even more.
Continuing their business-as-usual… ie., eg., –
http://accelerating.org/presen.....Summit5.06(90).ppt
in particular, p.70 (true???) and pp.77-81 (interesting)…
For that link, copy-thru the end of ..(90).ppt
They should also make a repository for Pr0n.
The latest I like about Google is the fact that they have launched a talent hunt in Asia to “recognize and celebrate” women power in computer science. There is Google recognition with cash reward for those who make the cut as per the details - http://www.techbanyan.com/archives/125
Woohooo Google Rocks!
Wow, this is great new. I am a huge proponent of open science, so I am eager to see how this progresses. There is a lot of potential in biology (my field).
Open science…
Just ad sponsored.
Yay. No possible point where there’s a conflict of interests there. None at all…
This is great. Perhaps this is what they have been using sneakernet to aggregate.
Google (and others) should be entering and embracing open access to research. It’s sad that, to this day, scientific papers are all hidden behind paywalls, when terabytes of garbage are available all over the web. I wonder who will kill Elsevier Science and Springer. USD2000/year for a scientific periodical? Those days are ending soon.
“How on earth do you pronounce “Palimpsest”?”
perhaps they use a nickname, like Palim
We are currently working on a similar project that will launch in March 2008 called Twidox. The aim of Twidox is to create an online library of ‘quality’ documents which have been created and uploaded by our users; such as academics, researchers and non governmental agencies. Documents on the website will be accessible to all and will allow people to share their knowledge and help others in their work and research.
Whether it will be better or worse then Google’s attempt remains to be seen.
I am a biologist; I’m involved in the creation of a CellML, an XML based language for description of biological processes and data within a mathematical framework - our institute within the University of Auckland, New Zealand is both ideologically and economically committed to the open source model for software and research.
I am considerably concerned about the progress of Google and other internet megacorporations and their influence on the internet. There is much information about this on the net and I encourage everyone to find more about this company that currently controls the majority of the information on the planet. Find out more, and make an informed choice before you and your colleagues decide to use this service.
Will there be a day when scientific research is either available on Google or simply not available at all? This is simply my own opinion. I encourage all of you as scientists to go and do some serious research on the implications of research.google.com
They really aren’t kidding with when they stride to ‘organize the world’ !
Googles an open source for every profession. Well almost.
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