I think that the problem is that Wikidata is not a storage in "the cloud"
for all kind of scientific data. In the same fashion Wikipedia is not a
portal for papers or academic publications, essays, lyrics, etc. Wikidata
scope is not well defined yet, but it will have its limits, for sure.

2012/4/4 Leukippos Institute <[email protected]>

> Emijrp The storage limit of the sever is a great point. In biomedicine is
> this also of importance - see e.g. the second generation sequencing data.
>  One might need to go together with NIH and eventually Google to discuss
> this matter. As a first effort might be a doable focused database
> desirable. In order not to overload Wikidata server one might need to
> limit. However, in my opinion need the problem I sketched to be solved. If
> no solution can be found we might soon reach a point where it does make no
> sense to continue to collect new biomedical data. At a beginning point this
> discussion might be very theoretical, because many researchers still stuck
> to the 300 year old publication model. They do this out of fear for their
> career.A high impact journal paper results in a tax payer financed academic
> position. Thus their will be at the beginning a limited number of
> scientists who will comply and submit open access their raw data in real
> time. However, if this will be a successfully system, there will be for
> sure more founding for storage place on a server. The US government has
> just announced their support research on big data.
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 7:13 PM, emijrp <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure if that kind of data will be desirable at Wikidata (not my
>> personal opinion, just thinking about community).
>>
>> For example, a lot of city articles contain info about temperature and
>> precipitation[1], but, are we going to import into Wikidata all the
>> temperature values from 1900 to present? (daily averages? minute-by minute?)
>>
>> I don't know what are the limits of Wikidata, but, we need some limits to
>> work, probably.
>>
>> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrid#Climate
>>
>>
>> 2012/4/4 Leukippos Institute <[email protected]>
>>
>>> Hi Sridhar,
>>>
>>> Nice to hear from you. I hope we can find many scientist to discuss this
>>> with us. We need a wide support from the scientific community, because we
>>> need to agree on a standardized format for data submission.
>>>
>>> I would like to know what other scientist think about the semantic web
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web
>>> as a structure to build a common data pool in which we publish directly
>>> our data?
>>>
>>> I had an interesting discussion with David 
>>> Bikard<http://www.facebook.com/david.bikard> on
>>> this subject on G+ Have a look here http://bit.ly/GWdmX4
>>>
>>> David provided some interesting links:
>>> http://biocyc.org/
>>> http://linkeddata.org/
>>> http://semanticweb.org/
>>> stackexchange.com
>>>
>>> Best
>>> Gerd
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Sridhar Gutam <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Gerd and brought out an important discussion. there is lots of
>>>> data underutilized in agricultural research too. under the current research
>>>> on climate change, we need to bring out the data stored in individual
>>>> desktops and published literature for meaningful analysis.
>>>>
>>>> I am also looking for the opportunity work with the community on
>>>> development of platforms, mechanisms and advocay for open access to data.
>>>>
>>>> wikidata project would be best to work with...
>>>>
>>>> sridhar
>>>> __________________________________________________________
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 4 April 2012 19:42, Leukippos Institute <
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi!
>>>>>
>>>>> I am a synthetic biologist. I see big changes in the way we do science
>>>>> and how we will publish in the future.
>>>>>
>>>>> I see a huge need to publish all scientific data (especially raw data)
>>>>> in a common free accessible data pool. This data should be machine
>>>>> readable. We face in science huge data amounts, huge number of
>>>>> publications. Nobody is longer able to read all the literature. We
>>>>> need a computer assisted system to analyze these data and develop
>>>>> novel concepts from them. We need a structuring of these data on a
>>>>> higher abstraction level. We need to be able to go from abstraction to
>>>>> detail.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thus I see the Wiki data project of potentially big value for
>>>>> scientist. I would like that this project could serve in that manner
>>>>> the scientific community and provide standards for submission of data
>>>>> for scientist. Any plans in this direction?
>>>>>
>>>>> A bit more about the reasons, why I find this very important:
>>>>>
>>>>> I would summarize the upcoming trend in science as this: From
>>>>> Hypothesis to Data-Driven Research, or the End of the Age of Science,
>>>>> and the Dawn of the Age of Systemics. We can observe a paradigm change
>>>>> in science, and two computer developments are responsible. The first
>>>>> is the enormous storage capacity in the cloud. The second is that a
>>>>> huge number of computers have been connected and organized in social
>>>>> networks. These changes have resulted in huge quantities of data and
>>>>> complex systems, a problem normal science cannot solve. The
>>>>> traditional hypothesis method can deal with simple correlations
>>>>> between A and B. But the method fails if the problem becomes more
>>>>> complex. Science has been synonymous with a separating, reductionistic
>>>>> approach. Contemporary science has come to a point where we will
>>>>> change the perspective from reductionism to holism. We now move to a
>>>>> position that sees things together: short systemics. The data-driven
>>>>> science approach changes the scientific method and results in a
>>>>> practice called "science 2.0" (named after web 2.0). "Science" will
>>>>> happen in the cloud, with new publishing formats such as direct
>>>>> publishing on blogs and direct publishing of our data in a human and
>>>>> computer readable database, new and fast ways of collaboration in
>>>>> social networks, and systems theory as the new "science" paradigm.
>>>>> Systems theory is already important in fields such as systems biology
>>>>> and its practical application synthetic biology.see NextGen VOICES,
>>>>> Science 6 January 2012: vol. 335 no. 6064 pp. 36-38 DOI:
>>>>> 10.1126/science.335.6064.36
>>>>> http://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6064/36/suppl/DC1
>>>>>
>>>>> Best
>>>>> Gerd
>>>>>
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