I gave a project briefing yesterday at the CNI fall meeting. I talked about our experience in building the Neurocommons project and the release of our RDF distribution for data integration in molecular biology.
The meeting was PACKED. 400+ people. I was sad that my briefing was up against the OAI-ORE briefing - that's a project we want to connect to at a deep level - but I was glad to have a good crowd. It's a little intimidating to get questions from Don Lindberg about your use of bio-information from the National Library of Medicine, or from George Strawn about the NSF use of semantics.
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Eugene Volokh has a post on the subject of amicus briefs that was prompted by the exchange between he, Clayton Cramer and myself over the ACLU.
Michigan Citizens for Science, along with similar groups in several other states, has filed a brief with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in the Cobb County disclaimer case.
The 11th Circuit Court is set to hear the appeal of the Cobb County evolution disclaimer case soon and the briefs are being filed quickly.
A major development in the Dover trial yesterday. The Discovery Institute had submitted a brief in the case last week and Judge Jones issued an order denying that brief's use in the case.