building a library of alexandria scientific supercourse "one of the greatest gifts we can give...
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Building a Library of Alexandria Scientific
Supercourse
"One of the greatest gifts we can give to another generation is our experiences, our wisdom" Desmond Tutu
Saving Knowledge
Need for a Scientific Supercourse
• Science has become enormous, and compartmentalized making interdisciplinary research and training difficult
• It is a very large task to keep current for 2 areas of science, let alone 30 topics for a review course
• Many Scientific findings take >5 year to appear in classrooms
• A large number of developing countries have not received scientific journals and books for greater than a decade
• Scientists have always shared, why not share our best lectures?
• The Library of Alexandria saved scientific works for >700 years, we should archive our lectures
Why?
Supercourse of Science 1. Identify all .ppt and .edu lectures in Science2. Develop a system for personalized QC3. Classify lectures according standardized criteria
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_disciplines
4. Build Web BA Scientific Supercourse webpage5. Make lectures available for searching or
browsing6. Establish Quality control system
.ppt/.edu links on the web
• 1,200,000 English• 5,600 Spanish • <10 Arabic
Quality Control
• Faina Linkov analyzed over 10,000 surveys of lectures with the help of Noha Adly and Magdy Nagi
• Our lectures were rated very highly (4.2/5.0)• A consumer rating system such as AOL
appeared to work well• An expert system selecting only academic
reviewers could mimic almost exactly peer review
• A personalized review system with scientists selecting raters and utilization greatly assists scientists to find the lectures they want
Nobel Prize Laureates and National Academy of Science Members
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_disciplines
Consumer Ratings
Scientific Supercourse YouTube (Serageldin)Nobel prize winners and YouTube
Supercurso científico
Conferencias legadoGanadores de Premio Nobel (13)
NAS (84)
IOM (73)
Biblioteca de Alejandría Supercurso Científico. Disciplinas Académicas
Número total de links para conferencias - 1 232 933
Ciencias de la salud (128,062)
Ingeniería (41,190)
Agricultura (38,152)
Salud ambiental (19,227)
Bibliotecas y museos (48,528)
Química (51,443)
Ciencias de la tierra (46,417)
Ciencias de la vida (140,462)
Física (87,700)
Ciencias del espacio (19,644)
Ciencias computacionales (494,976)
Matemáticas (91,982)
Ciencias en sistemas (25,150)
EncuentrosAAAS Encuentro anual, 14–18 Febrero, 2008 Boston
Biovisión Alejandría 2008 12-16 Abril, 2008, Alejandría
Comité General de ExpertosJunta principalGrupo BACC OMS
Cómo crear un DVD del Supercurso o crear un servidor espejo del SupercursoEnglish version
Building a Scientific Supercourse
•1.2 million lectures•Categorization by over 600
Disciplines of Science•Web site for searching and
Browsing•Personalized Quality control•We help the scientists find the
slides and lectures s/he need
We identified 200,000 links in 4 key disciplines highlighted in our agreement. We created a draft of the BA Supercourse of Science Portal, capturing existing Supercourse lectures and links that we identifiedhttp://www.pitt.edu/~super1/Science/science.htm
We developed a personalized quality control system and developed two papers for publication.
We also created a General Committee of experts page http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/Science/main.htm We established a preliminary crisis team in environmental health with Ali Ardalan from the University of Tehran. We are in the process of discussing the acquisition of AAAS keynote lectures with Gil Omenn, former president of AAAS. We recently received a lecture from Dr. Ferid Murad, Nobel Prize Laureate, and 10 additional NAS membershttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPHMFfiVCYA
Contract status, July 1 – Nov 1, 08
