Open data enables unprecedented large scale collaboration on efforts to clean up, link together, deliver and represent all different kinds of information.
Inspired by the people of York's experiences during the first world war, Blood and Chocolate is a large-scale collaboration between the Theatre Royal York and two of the region's most interesting companies – Pilot and Slung Low.
Gene resequencing is also a major component of the $50 million3-yearr pilot phase of the Cancer Genome Atlas (http://cancergenome.nih.gov/), a large-scale collaboration between the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI).
As well as helping to build the evidence base for PET imaging, such large-scale collaboration between economists, statisticians, clinicians and physicists would provide valuable insights into how the process of economic modelling might best be formalised and regulated in HTA.
Benefits: "The joint collaboration provides the opportunities for large scale collaborations in road safety, providing the critical mass that is necessary to address questions that otherwise could not be answered".
In the area of Tuberculosis research, funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and The European Commission have enabled the TB Drug Accelerator and the More Medicines For Tuberculosis, as large-scale collaborations between academia, research institutes and industry.
In many of the large scale collaborations now being undertaken it is of interest to determine whether genetic differences exist between groups of controls ascertained from different geographic locations, or genotyped at different laboratories.
More recently, she has been involved in large scale collaborations looking at patterns of global biodiversity, and has assessed the taxonomic status of South Asian vultures.
Then in 1993 he unveiled The Cave, a large-scale collaboration with his wife, the video artist Beryl Korot.
Sharing knowledge more effectively has the potential to improve the world in all kinds of ways -- from closing the loop between citizens and public bodies, allowing for greater accountability and improved service provision, to improving large-scale collaboration in science, e.g. on the development of life-saving drugs and treatments.
The latter was his last large-scale collaboration with Auden.
