nikolamilosevic

Point of the article is that establishment is defending whoever is on power and itself, and there is no much more democracy, especially when opposition is dissolved, leaving people to chose between parties that are not fundamentally different. Erosion of democracy is the result, especially now all aided with technology and biases big tech platforms introduced

Since this sparked quite an interest, I have created a mailing list and wiki. For more information about idea, you can read here http://inspiratron.org/blog/2015/12/18/starting-an-effort-to... where you can find the links to mailing list and wiki. I believe that would be the more appropriate place to collect all efforts that currently exist, index them and maybe try to integrate them and make them interoperable. Please join the mailing list.

Yes, this is kinda what I wanted to propose. An umbrella organization that would make an infrastructure using which it would be possible to query, index and integrate data acros the web. And I am not running away from decentralized structure or infrastructure.

Linked data and SPARQL are definitely very possible solution and infrastructure can be decentralized. There is a bit of resistance in one part of the community from these technologies, because people are not used to them and compared to some other data storages they tend to be a bit slower, but thats other discussing. I do not have anything against these technoogies. What I currently don't like is that there are a lot of resources that are technically open source and free, but they are burried somewhere on the internet and sometimes hard to find and it takes quite a lot of time to review all existing resources. What I wanted to recommend is one central umbrella organization that will be (1) platform for collaboration in biomedical field, (2) central endpoint to all major existing project, possibly with some maturity level of projects and internal review in order to arrange projects into maturity levels, so it can be relatively easy to review how much you can "trust" that project of data, (3) central repository for open source NLP, data curation and semantic web tools, (4) some relevant body that would be able to propose and work on standards for data curation that would take in account all field specific needs.