From: "Kiley, Robert" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 12:42:55 +0000
A new prize challenging innovators from around the world to unleash
the huge potential of open access content and data for societal
benefit is launched today by the Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K)
initiative of the National Institutes of Health, the Wellcome Trust,
and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
The Open Science Prize invites technology experts and inventive
researchers to come forward with new ideas for services, tools, and
platforms that will make it easier for academic scientists, citizen
scientists, innovators and the wider public to discover and mine the
vast treasure troves of digital information being generated through
health research. The competition seeks international teams to create
novel open science platforms.
The volume of digital information – in the form of datasets,
publications, code, and other outputs – generated by biomedical
research is growing at an ever-increasing rate. The opportunities for
researchers and other users to extract new value from these vast
resources are also expanding, especially as more and more of them are
becoming openly available. However, the ability to mine datasets is
frequently limited by challenges in finding, navigating, and re-using
their content, which comes in a dizzying array of sizes, formats, and
data types. Often, datasets are not linked to one another and are not
searchable without expert knowledge of each dataset in question.
The Open Science Prize consists of a two-phase competition to make
this digital information and data more accessible and usable. For the
first phase, up to six teams will receive prizes of $80,000 to take
new ideas for products or services to the prototype stage, or to
further develop an existing early-stage prototype. In the second
phase, the team with the prototype judged to have the greatest
potential to advance open science will receive a prize of $230,000.
The Open Science Prize is open for entries until 29 February 2016.
Further information is available at: http://openscienceprize.org
Regards
Robert Kiley
Head of Digital Services
Wellcome Library
183, Euston Road, London. NW1 2BE
Tel: 020 7611 8338; Fax: 020 7611 8703; mailto:[log in to unmask]
ORCID: 0000-0003-4733-2558
Library Web site: http://wellcomelibrary.org
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