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Ken Walker: Museum Victoria, Australia
The purposes of the Life and Literature Conference areto investigate:
Engagement
Innovative Integration
and
Publishing models
Digitized Legacy Biodiversity Scientific Literature
and Biodiversity Databases.
BHL – Chicago Nov 2011
Ken Walker: Museum Victoria, Australia
My current focus is to use the Digital medium:
To transition Museum-based science into Information-based science.
Targeted Audiences - Citizen Science and Biosecurity.
My “Dream Scenario” is to tell you about thecornerstones of my approach
using a series of quotes and images.
Computers are bicycles for our mind. Steve Jobs, 1990
BHL – Chicago Nov 2011
Ken Walker: Museum Victoria, Australia
Science is the practice of reductionism – breaking things down to simple ideas to explain the complex.
Indeed, humans are hard-wired for reductionism!
Imagine walking into a supermarket with everything disorganised.
Where do you live?
CountryCity/Town
StreetHouse Number
BHL – Chicago Nov 2011
Ken Walker: Museum Victoria, Australia
The practitioners of Science are forever trying to undress nature while our artistic impulse is to be wrapped in it.
While these two approaches are probably diametrically opposite, they inform related strands of thinking in ways that promote
energy and vision.
It is this energy and vision that pushes us ahead.
The greater part of human aspiration has been informed by individual intuitions and passions more so than it hasthrough logic and pre-determined scientific endeavor.
BHL – Chicago Nov 2011
Ken Walker: Museum Victoria, Australia
Learn to Discover or Discover to Learn
The traditional method to “do” science was to
“Learn BEFORE you were ALLOWED to Discover”.
Nowadays, many people want to
“Discover to Learn”.
We need to facilitate that pathway.
BHL – Chicago Nov 2011
Ken Walker: Museum Victoria, Australia
New knowledge is not science until it is made social.
The internet has provided a myrad of ways
to make Science Social.
It is a great way to join Science and Art:
The practitioners of Science are forever trying to undress nature while our artistic impulse is to be wrapped in it.
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BHL – Chicago Nov 2011
Ken Walker: Museum Victoria, Australia
The New Einsteins Will Be Scientists Who Share
-----Original Message-----From: Ryan Barry [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, 4 November 2011 5:25 PMTo: Pest and Disease Image LibrarySubject: Asian longhorn beetle discovered in western Australia I am a mine worker in Mount Magnet, western Australia and I havefound an Asian longhorn beetle at our camp site. I can forward pictures if you can give me an email address to send them to. Should I capture it?
Fortunately, it was a native Australian beetle with similar markings!
BHL – Chicago Nov 2011
Ken Walker: Museum Victoria, Australia
Science is the practice of reductionism – breaking things down to simple ideas to explain the complex.
The practitioners of Science are forever trying to undress nature while our artistic impulse is to be wrapped in it.
Learn to Discover or Discover to Learn
New knowledge is not science until it is made social.
The New Einsteins Will Be Scientists Who Share
BHL – Chicago Nov 2011
Ken Walker: Museum Victoria, Australia
Focus on the outcome – a coherent product. Steve Jobs
Good artists copy; Great artists steal. Picasso
Food for thought ................ Thanks Ken
BHL – Chicago Nov 2011
If I had asked my customers what they wanted,they would have told me “a faster horse”. Henry Ford
