Yearly Archives: 2008

I have been offline for some time because a lot has been going on. As I mentioned earlier we have had 5 students over this summer and they have been phenomenal. Not that previous students – such as Joe Townsend … Continue reading →

I have been off the air for some time because of travel and also technical problems with the blog which Jim Downing has solved (thanks). <p/> I hope to blog soon about data, repositories and escience among various topics.

Alma Swan has organised the session at Barcelona ESOF : (http://www.esof2008.org/fileadmin/media/programme/scientific_programme_preliminary_abstracts.pdf) [Saturday, 18th July, 1630). Sharing scientific data: who benefits? Alma Swan, Key Perspectives Ltd, United Kingdom Abstract: Digital datasets—text-based, numeric, audio, video or image-based—form the output of all scientific … Continue reading →

We have been so busy with our summer program – semantic authoring and capturing of chemistry – that I haven’t had a breathing space. I’ll be blogging more about that. However a change of scene – tomorrow I’m in Barcelona … Continue reading →

Whether you support Open Access and Open Data or believe that Closed Access and patents are the best way of promoting high quality science, there is no doubt about the fact that restrictions on access to IPR area major drain … Continue reading →

One of the highlights of my year is our summer program of undergraduate projects in the Centre. We’ve done this for six years and each student spends 8-10 weeks working on projects in Molecular Informatics. I have been astonished and … Continue reading →

Peter Suber has been working with colleagues to create a Wiki of Open Access Data repositories. From his blog List of data repositories The Open Access Directory (OAD) list of Data repositories is now open for community editing. OAD is … Continue reading →

Chris Rusbridge of the Digital Curation Centre (Edinburgh, UK) has come up with a great idea which I think has captured the zeitgeist. He started with “negative click” repository – and has mutated the name to Research Repository System. I … Continue reading →

Last Thursday a group of us went to see the Wellcome Collection (iat 183 Euston Road, built in 1932). It’s literally across the road from Euston Station. We were all crystallographers and had worked with the great women and men … Continue reading →

Some of you will have noticed that Elsevier has launched a competition: WHAT IF YOU WERE THE PUBLISHER? Demonstrate your best ideas for how scientific research articles should be presented on the web and compete to win great prizes! CONTEST … Continue reading →