The full text of my dissertation, "Strategies for amassing, characterizing, and applying third-party metadata in bioinformatics", is now available via UBC's information repository. It is "manuscript-based" so each of the chapters except the introduction and the conclusion can be read and understood independently.

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he January 2009 issue of IEEE Intelligent Systems is a special issue on the Semantic Web and science knowledge integration: * The Emerging Field of Semantic Scientific Knowledge Integration. McGuinness, Deborah L.; Fox, Peter; Brodaric, Boyan; Kendall, Elisa * Ontology Design for Scientific Theories That Make Probabilistic Predictions. Poole, D.; Smyth, C.; Sharma, R. * Semantic Support for Quantitative Research Processes. Rijgersberg, H.; Top, J.; Meinders, M. * MatSeek: An Ontology-Based Federated Search Interface for Materials Scientists. Cheung, Kwok; Hunter, Jane; Drennan, John * Annotation and Image Markup: Accessing and Interoperating with the Semantic Content in Medical Imaging. Rubin, Daniel L.; Mongkolwat, Pattanasak; Kleper, Vladimir; Supekar, Kaustubh; Channin, David S. * Enabling Cross-Disciplinary E-Science by Integrating Geoscience Ontologies with Dolce. Brodaric, B.; Probst, F.