Treubia

Spolia

Kina

Kina

Collocalia.

Pyrrhula pyrrhula

Collocalia.

(Collocalia)

Collocalia.

Macropterygidae

Caprimulgidae

Podargidae,

Aves,

Collocalia

Picariae

Collocalia.

Collocalia

Spolia mentawiensis

Zoologicum

C. linchi

Collocalia linchi dedii

C. linchi

C. esculenta

C. esculenta linchi

C. esculenta cyanoptila

C. esculenta linchi

C. linchi

C. linchi

Collocalia linchi ripleyi

C. esculenta cyanoptila

C. esculenta dodgei

C. dodgei

C. esculenta

Collocalia dodgei

Collocalia linchi dodgei

Nusa

V. von

Nusa

Collocalia linchi

Collocalia fucivora

Collocalia linchi

Hemiprocne fucivora

Hemiprocne fucivora

Nusa

Madura

Collocalia linchi

Nusa

Madura

Nusa

Collocalia esculenta plesseni

Hemiprocne fucivora

Collocalia linchi

Collocalia linchi linchi

Collocalia linchi

C. esculenta

Nusa

Madura

C. linchi

C. linchi

C. esculenta

C. linchi

C. linchi

I. dodgei

Collocalia

C. esculenta natalis

C. esculenta

C. linchi oberholseri

C. esculenta

C. linchi

C. esculenta

C. linchi

C. esculenta

C. linchi

C. linchi

C. esculenta

C. esculenta

C. linchi

Collocalia,

Collocalia linchi

Collocalia fuciphaga)

Hirundo fuciphaga

Collocalia linchi

Charadriiformes).

(Tinamiformes

Scytalopus femoralis

Meknoparek maximiliani

Conopophaga ardesiaca

Hylopezus berlepschi

Meknoparek maximiliani

Building on all these sources of inspiration we did not start with some scientific concepts we wanted people to learn. Instead, we created a list of skills and behaviours that we wanted our exhibits to encourage. They included observation, exploration, pattern recognition, experimentation, mental modelling and hypothesis making.

To develop this exhibition Life recognised that people construct knowledge for themselves, rather than passively absorb what’s fed to them, and they learn to learn as they learn.

Sobel, D. M., & Kirkham, N. Z. (2006). Blickets and babies: The development of causal reasoning in toddlers and infants. Developmental Psychology, 42, 1103-1115.

Sobel, D. M., & Kirkham, N. Z. (2007). Bayes nets and Babies: Infants’ developing representations of causal knowledge. Developmental Science, 10, 298-306.

National governments are also weighing in on the issue. The UK government aims this April to make text-mining for non-commercial purposes exempt from copyright, allowing academics to mine any content they have paid for.

“Our plan is just to wait for the copyright exemption to come into law in the United Kingdom so we can do our own content-mining our own way, on our own platform, with our own tools,” says Mounce. “Our project plans to mine Elsevier’s content, but we neither want nor need the restricted service they are announcing here.”

some researchers feel that a dangerous precedent is being set. They argue that publishers wrongly characterize text-mining as an activity that requires extra rights to be granted by licence from a copyright holder, and they feel that computational reading should require no more permission than human reading. “The right to read is the right to mine,” says Ross Mounce of the University of Bath, UK, who is using content-mining to construct maps of species’ evolutionary relationships.