Mozilla Science Lab launches

[Damiano]

The Mozilla Foundation has opened its Science Lab program to optimize the work of scientists and researchers.

At its inception for the Web as we know it today was first thought to improve the exchange of ideas within the research community. Late last week, the Mozilla foundation announced the launch of a new program called "Science Lab." Mozilla says that if the Web has transformed the media, communications and commerce, the latter does not seem to have a significant impact also on the science.

Mark Surman, director of the foundation, says that researchers can sometimes be discouraged from sharing their discoveries or work collaboratively since this area takes full advantage by new technologies.

For Mozilla, it is back to the very foundation of the Web. In the 1980s, the research center CERN saw thing with new ideas and ambitious projects requiring sustained organization. In March 1989, the British engineer, Tim Berners-Lee, proposed the first scheme to the World Wide Web. Also specifically, he invented the concept of the hyperlink then to link information between each other and to move quickly from one text to another.

With its "Science Lab" Mozilla hopes to initiate dialogue between the developer community and the scientists to the first to respond more adequately to the needs of the latter. The main idea is to digitize up to work and to provide tools to facilitate sharing between the various teams.

Interested developers can find more details on the official page of the wiki here.

[Johnny]

Mark Surman also said that scientists are now based on much of its work in physical roles, and often do not have a place to share, learn, reuse or adopt any open learning web facility. The Science Lab was created to promote dialogue between the community and researchers open web. This will surely benefit both researchers and scientists.