Did you get a Google Wave invite? Yeah well, who cares. Some people say it will change everything; some people say it's all hype. Whatever you think, it's kinda fun to think about what Wave could do for science and research. Cameron Neylon wrote a short article about Wave and science for Nature and wrote quite a bit more about it on his blog "Science in the open." He suggests things like a Creative Commons bot that stamps a document and asks contributors if they're ok with the license. Or how about a bot that registers a document with a repository and automatically sends metadata to the repository? Data can be linked from within a Wave to a live spreadsheet that is being constantly updated. Neylon also makes some interesting suggestions for using the playback feature in the peer review process. Neylon is even sponsoring a Google Wave Science Hack Day where a bunch of people will get together, in person and in Wave, to discuss scientific applications of Wave. I've noticed people talking about the implications for interactions between doctors and patients. So what do you think? Are Wave's implications for research and scholarly communication interesting or not?
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