Adam Craig
(Hong Kong Baptist University)
Carl Taswell
(Brain Health Alliance)
Pan-Jun Kim
(Hong Kong Baptist University)
Daniel Kristanto
(Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg)
Chairs:
Adam Craig
(Hong Kong Baptist University)
Michal Balazia
(INRIA Universite Cote Azur)
Pan-Jun Kim
(Hong Kong Baptist University)
Carl Taswell
(Brain Health Alliance)
Discussants:
Kento Shigyo
(The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Cheng Tang
(Hong Kong Baptist University)
Xin Xiong
(HKBU)
Format:
Pre-conference virtual symposium
History Matters: Remembering Why the Present and Future of Science and Metascience Require Knowledge of Their Past.
Virtual Symposium VS04 at conference Metascience 2025.
In this symposium, researchers from the information and life sciences will discuss how we can learn from the past to build knowledge infrastructure for the future. The program will consist of 5 segments, each starting with a 3-minute history lesson followed by a 9-minute discussion of a prompt.
Description
Helping scholars learn from prior studies has taken on special urgency as they seek to publicize their work faster than institutions can curate it and AI tools offer easy, unsourced answers. To address this challenge, metascientists need to study the history of metascience.
In this virtual symposium, early-, mid-, and advanced-career researchers from computer science, statistics, psychiatry, and bioinformatics will discuss how we can learn from the past to build knowledge infrastructure for the future. The program will consist of 5 segments, each starting with a 3-minute history lesson followed by a 9-minute discussion addressing a prompt.
1. Plato's epistemology and Aristotle's ontology formed the foundations of European scholarly thought. Has the scientific community integrated their best ideas, or have we forgotten important lessons from ancient Greece?
2. Library catalogues have evolved dramatically since Antonio Panizzi’s Rules for the Compilation of the Catalogue of 1841. How can human-curated catalogues complement search engines and recommendation algorithms?
3. Vannevar Bush's 1945 essay “As We May Think”, proposed “memex”, an automated system for managing information stored on microfilm. Have we already achieved Bush's vision? What challenges did he not foresee?
4. Thinkers of the 2000s envisioned the semantic web, where automated agents would answer questions using distributed, machine-readable knowledge. Have innovations brought this ideal closer to reality or rendered it irrelevant?
5. The Gene Ontology Knowledge Base has become a cornerstone of bioinformatics. What lessons can institutions and alliances learn from this success to create cross-disciplinary networks of knowledge repositories?
Carl Taswell (Brain Health Alliance)
Pan-Jun Kim (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Daniel Kristanto (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg)
Michal Balazia (INRIA Universite Cote Azur)
Pan-Jun Kim (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Carl Taswell (Brain Health Alliance)
Cheng Tang (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Xin Xiong (HKBU)
Short Abstract
In this symposium, researchers from the information and life sciences will discuss how we can learn from the past to build knowledge infrastructure for the future. The program will consist of 5 segments, each starting with a 3-minute history lesson followed by a 9-minute discussion of a prompt.
Description
Helping scholars learn from prior studies has taken on special urgency as they seek to publicize their work faster than institutions can curate it and AI tools offer easy, unsourced answers. To address this challenge, metascientists need to study the history of metascience.
In this virtual symposium, early-, mid-, and advanced-career researchers from computer science, statistics, psychiatry, and bioinformatics will discuss how we can learn from the past to build knowledge infrastructure for the future. The program will consist of 5 segments, each starting with a 3-minute history lesson followed by a 9-minute discussion addressing a prompt.
1. Plato's epistemology and Aristotle's ontology formed the foundations of European scholarly thought. Has the scientific community integrated their best ideas, or have we forgotten important lessons from ancient Greece?
2. Library catalogues have evolved dramatically since Antonio Panizzi’s Rules for the Compilation of the Catalogue of 1841. How can human-curated catalogues complement search engines and recommendation algorithms?
3. Vannevar Bush's 1945 essay “As We May Think”, proposed “memex”, an automated system for managing information stored on microfilm. Have we already achieved Bush's vision? What challenges did he not foresee?
4. Thinkers of the 2000s envisioned the semantic web, where automated agents would answer questions using distributed, machine-readable knowledge. Have innovations brought this ideal closer to reality or rendered it irrelevant?
5. The Gene Ontology Knowledge Base has become a cornerstone of bioinformatics. What lessons can institutions and alliances learn from this success to create cross-disciplinary networks of knowledge repositories?