Monthly Archives: April 2007

from Jean-Claude Bradley’s blog: UsefulChem and Skateboarding  : I just came across Karl Bailey’s blog, a chemistry teacher at Clark College who happens to teach virtually the same 3 organic chemistry classes that I do, in the same sequence following the … Continue reading →

There’s a splendid long-running program on the BBC – Desert Island Discs – which invites well known people (I hate the word celebrity and hope the concept disintegrates) to say what 8 records (discs) they would take to a desert … Continue reading →

On Monday I shall be taking at Colorado State University on the theme on “Digital preservation of the scientific record” – probably not the precise title. Digital preservation  (WP): “ refers to the management of digital information over time. Unlike … Continue reading →

I now realise I forget everything. Partly I suppose as brain cells disappear but largely due to the increasing flood and diversity of information, coupled with trying to sort out all the new ideas to the exclusion of actually observing … Continue reading →

I have spent a splendid day at NIST in Boulder invited by Michael Frenkel of TRC – a group which captures thermochemistry data from the literature and elsewhere on behalf of the US Department of Commerce. Here’s what they do … Continue reading →

First many thanks to Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport for free wireless. Much appreciated. Why can’t others be less mean? Today we set ourselves the challenge of how to plan the future of eScholarship. As the report will appear later it … Continue reading →

(I’m afraid I’m going to bang on again about access to data). I’ve been at the CNI and the NSF/JISC meeting for which I wrote a position paper. The meeting was on Digital Repositories and Data-driven Scholarship (Science). My paper … Continue reading →

I’ve been offline for ca. 2 days – staying in a hotel which dates from the days of Mae West (she stayed there) but where the internet only works in one place if you hide under the bed. The closing … Continue reading →

Ben Litchfield is the(?) current guru of PDFBox and has updated me on  PDFBox. (I copy it here as although I think Jim has fixed the Blog (thanks, Jim)  I won’t take chances.) Name: Ben Litchfield URI: http://www.pdfbox.org/ | IP: 170.37.224.2 … Continue reading →

I blogged recently about how I used PDFBox to turn chemical theses (in hamburger PDF) into text. I have now found some interesting (and I think exciting) developments – but I’d like a reality check. I downloaded a thesis from … Continue reading →