Filling in the Gaps: Artistic License in Education and Outreach Export

@article{Goodsell2007a, abstract = {When called upon to share our scientific results with the world, scientists are faced with a challenge: we must select appropriate representations to express our results clearly and unambiguously. At one extreme, a primary researcher must make many decisions when creating a technical report: Will a line graph work better than a bar graph, pie chart, or table of numbers? Is color needed to distinguish different features? At the opposite extreme, scientific illustrators are often called upon to assemble a speculative picture that integrates what is known within the context of what is not. As you might imagine, this process involves considerable artistic license—the distortion of fact in service of a purpose—and the amount of license considered acceptable depends highly on both the subject and the audience.}, author = {Goodsell, David S. and Johnson, Graham T.}, citeulike-article-id = {2057042}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0050308}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1371/journal.pbio.0050308}, journal = {PLoS Biology}, keywords = {license, recommended}, month = {December}, number = {12}, pages = {e308+}, posted-at = {2007-12-04 13:13:44}, priority = {2}, title = {Filling in the Gaps: Artistic License in Education and Outreach}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0050308}, volume = {5}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - Goodsell2007a L3 - citeulike-article-id:2057042 N2 - When called upon to share our scientific results with the world, scientists are faced with a challenge: we must select appropriate representations to express our results clearly and unambiguously. At one extreme, a primary researcher must make many decisions when creating a technical report: Will a line graph work better than a bar graph, pie chart, or table of numbers? Is color needed to distinguish different features? At the opposite extreme, scientific illustrators are often called upon to assemble a speculative picture that integrates what is known within the context of what is not. As you might imagine, this process involves considerable artistic license—the distortion of fact in service of a purpose—and the amount of license considered acceptable depends highly on both the subject and the audience. IS - 12 JF - PLoS Biology TI - Filling in the Gaps: Artistic License in Education and Outreach VL - 5 SP - e308 KW - license KW - recommended AU - Goodsell, David AU - Johnson, Graham PY - 2007/12/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0050308 ER -