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Message from the MIST mailing list. Dear Colleagues Most of you will no doubt have seen last week's email from Chris Lu, at the Government Office for Science, relating to attempts to "crowd source" an overall picture of the UK research landscape. If not, I attach it below. This is potentially a significant survey, because it will inform the government's picture of the diversity of UK science and the key requirements for each different sector. Having had a go at this myself, I can vouch for the fact that it is a thought-provoking exercise and well worth a little of your time. Please note that a large number of individual responses are encouraged. On behalf of MIST Council, I would like to urge you to take part in this exercise and ensure that our community's input is well represented. With best regards Ian McCrea ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UK Knowledge Landscape The Prime Minister's Council for Science and Technology is looking at the UK Science Landscape. The aim of this project is to build a picture of the whole research landscape in the UK and to develop a stronger evidence base. This evidence base will be available to inform future strategic decision-making and help the UK to maintain and develop its excellence in research. As part of this project, we wish to understand better how the UK's research community defines itself and the links and interconnections that exist between research disciplines. To help to do this, the UK Knowledge Landscape Tool has been developed. The Tool has been designed to gather data from the researchers on the disciplines, dependencies and key infrastructure they think make up modern research. To be part of this exciting and experimental approach users can log on and create an account at www.ukknowledgelandscape.co.uk . We are interested in crowd-sourcing a large amount of data. The data will be analysed for statistically significant patterns across the whole body of responses and then used to produce outputs such as taxonomies or maps. The more responses the tool has, the better the mappings are likely to be. For this reason, we would be welcome your input. Chris Chris Lu | Government Office for Science 5th Floor, Spur, 1 Victoria Street, London SW1H 0ET Tel: 020 7215 4261 | [log in to unmask] www.gov.uk/go-science To send a message to the list, email [log in to unmask] or visit http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?P1&L=mist MIST Web page is http://www.mist.ac.uk/