Getting Connected

Linked Environment Data - Getting Things Connected

After three years of discussion and early prototypes, the Federal Environment Agency (UBA), Germany, now has launched a two-year research & development project on Linked Environment Data (LED) with innoQ Deutschland GmbH as a contractor. This project will set up a core cloud of environment data with a well-elaborated domain terminology as its semantic backbone. Data will be taken from the “Envi...

Getting Closer to a Fully Correctable and Connected Research Literature

The PLOS Medicine Editors discuss the need for a dynamic publishing system that enables linkage to corrections of errors in scientific literature (whatever their source) and full integration of articles with post-publication commentary.

Getting connected: Kinship and compadrazgo in rural Tlaxcala, Mexico*

Getting connected: analysis and principles of biological networks.

The execution of complex biological processes requires the precise interaction and regulation of thousands of molecules. Systematic approaches to study large numbers of proteins, metabolites, and their modification have revealed complex molecular networks. These biological networks are significantly different from random networks and often exhibit ubiquitous properties in terms of their structu...

Getting Cold Start Users Connected in a Recommender System’s Trust Network

Generating personalized recommendations for new users is particularly challenging, because in this case, the recommender system has little or no user record of previously rated items. Connecting the newcomer to an underlying trust network among the users of the recommender system alleviates this socalled cold start problem. In this paper, we study the effect of guiding the new user through the ...