In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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on Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:21:57 +0000
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> Doctors, PHDs to edit new Wikipedia of medical information
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> | A project launched Wednesday aims to create what is in essence a medical
> | Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia focused on explaining conditions, drugs,
> | procedures, medial facilities and other medical topics written by physicians
> | and PhDs.
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> http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;1238485857;fp;16;fpid;1
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> Related:
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> Now You Can Read What Doctors See
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> | John Willinsky, Open Medicine's volunteer publisher and an open access
> | expert at the University of British Columbia, argues access to
> | knowledge shouldn't cost the public a dime.
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> http://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2007/04/18/OpenMed/
Pedant Point: 1 dime retail = about 1 GB of data, at least for me.
The calculation is rather simple:
payment in $/month * 1 GB / (bandwidth in kB/s * 86400 s/day * 30 day/month)
= cost of 1 GB of data
or one can use:
amount desired, in $ * bandwidth in kB/s * 86400 s/day * 30 day/month
/ payment in $/month = amount of data one can get, in kB
If one's lucky, one can use "free" Wi-Fi, though one might
then have to comb through the yearly city or county budget
to find the cost.
A lot cheaper than some options; ISO in particular wants me
to pay 126 Swiss Francs (about $121.52) for an official copy
of at least one of their specs. For example, ISO8601:
http://www.iso.org/iso/search.htm?qt=8601&searchSubmit=Search&sort=rel&type=simple&published=on
I doubt ISO8601 runs 1.2 TB in length.
Fortunately, there's a lot of free information, of varying
utility and "normativeness" [*], at
http://www.dmoz.org/Science/Reference/Standards/Individual_Standards/ISO/ISO_8601/
But I digress.
Pedant Point #2: "Big Pharm" (not to be confused with
the identity theft technique of pharming) might have some
interesting additions to put into this Wiki.
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> Push for open access to research
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> | "Cancer patients seeking information on new treatments or parents
> | searching for the latest on childhood development issues were often
> | denied access to the research they indirectly fund through their
> | taxes"
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> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6404429.stm
[*] in the World Wide Web Consortium and RFC's, a normative section
is a section that is part of a specification and is required
for compliance. An informative section is not required for
compliance but may help in understanding.
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