With the Internet, governments and individuals have the power to link technical standards directly to the laws that incorporate them, to make the standards searchable, to present the information in new ways that enhance public understanding, to create new businesses and spur innovation.
A new a phylogenetic analysis tool AcidMiner [ 20] is used to convert raw data in the form of protein alignments and Newick protein and species trees into a relational database of amino acid substitutions searchable by standard SQL queries and containing a number of preset queries.
A good example of how this can be done can be found on the Dow Jones technology Web site All Things D. Other ingredients of a reader portal that would boost transparency and reinforce standards: Publishing in a searchable format all of The Times's journalism policies, including those relating to ethics, style and usage, blogging, anonymous sources and social media.
Since it is important that these models and the content in the models can be searchable and readable by machines, standard SBML (system biology markup language) format was used to store the models.
Well, it's not entirely gibberish — Social Fortress appends a bit of metadata to the end of each content snippet that makes it searchable using a service's standard search system, a feature they've already filed a patent for.
The GitZero repository acts like a layer on top of Git, giving users that searchable encryption, while still using a standard Git command line interface to move the content into the newly created repository.
32, 33 The peer-reviewed literature was accessed through electronic searchable sites (PubMed, ProMED, and others) using standard search strategies for literature related to migrants, mobile populations, and specific disease outcomes.
And to make those pieces searchable across databases, companies will have to establish a standard means to identify the piecemeal content, just as the International Standard Book Number, or ISBN, enables books to be catalogued, tracked and bought quickly.
I broached the idea of a searchable policies portal with The Times's associate managing editor for standards, Philip B. Corbett, and he duly reminded me of the organization's efforts to date to be "much more open and transparent in telling our readers what our standards are".
Many of the searchable keyword domains in AcuTrials® mirror the 2010 revised Standards for Reporting Interventions in Clinical Trials of Acupuncture (STRICTA) [ 22] checklist of essential reporting items, allowing researchers to perform more efficient, targeted literature searches based on these important components.
