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 Science 2.Develop a system for personalized QC 3.Classify lectures according standardized criteria nes nes 4.Build Web BA Scientific Supercourse webpage 5.Make lectures available for searching or browsing 6.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

Consumer Ratings

Scientific Supercourse YouTube ( Serageldin) Nobel prize winners and YouTube

Supercurso científico Conferencias legado Ganadores de Premio Nobel (13) NASNAS (84) IOM (73) Biblioteca de Alejandría Supercurso Científico. Disciplinas Académicas Número total de links para conferencias Ciencias de la saludCiencias de la salud (128,062) Ingeniería Ingeniería (41,190) Agricultura (38,152) Agricultura Salud ambiental Salud ambiental (19,227) Bibliotecas y museos Bibliotecas y museos (48,528) Química (51,443)Química Ciencias de la tierra (46,417) Ciencias de la tierra Ciencias de la vida (140,462)Ciencias de la vida Física (87,700)Física Ciencias del espacio Ciencias del espacio (19,644) Ciencias computacionales (494,976) Ciencias computacionales Matemáticas Matemáticas (91,982) Ciencias en sistemas (25,150)Ciencias en sistemas Encuentros AAASAAAS Encuentro anual, 14–18 Febrero, 2008 Boston Biovisión Alejandría Abril, 2008, Alejandría Comité General de Expertos Junta principal Grupo BA CC OMS Cómo crear un DVD del Supercurso o crear un servidor espejo del Supercurso English 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 identified We developed a personalized quality control system and developed two papers for publication. We also created a General Committee of experts page 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 members Contract status, July 1 – Nov 1, 08

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