Monthly Archives: November 2010

I’d like to congratulate the British Library on releasing its National Bibliography as Open data. This is in conjunction with our JISC-funded Open Bibliography #jiscopenbib. I am sure there are many at the BL who have contributed from the Director … Continue reading →

I’m going to an important and exciting meeting in January which looks at new ways of scholarly communication (https://sites.google.com/site/beyondthepdf/ ). Unlike some of the communities I interact with this one has already had huge amounts of discussion (160 messages). Many … Continue reading →

  In Quixote we are writing a semantic infrastructure for computational chemistry. That means we have to create precise and consistent annotation for components. The community “knows the semantics” so often they aren’t explicit. But the problem is that if … Continue reading →

I’ve been really busy putting in grants and helping to building the Quixote system (which will revolutionize the management of compchem data) that I haven’t had time to blog. So here’s something from about two weeks ago. I’m sitting on … Continue reading →

#rluk10 #quixote It’s been a great day at RLUK. Lots of progress towards Openness. We discovered millions of open bibliographic records. A great day for the Edinburgh node of the OKF. Lots of contact with the University, the National Library … Continue reading →

#rluk10 One of our graduate students received a request from VERSITA – a Springer Journal – to become a “Language Editor”. S/he came to me and asked my opinion. I didn’t know what this involved so I went to the … Continue reading →

#rluk10 @RL_UK #jiscopenbib I’m talking later this week on the Democratization of knowledge to the RLUK conference. RLUK is the professional body for Research Libraries (i.e. mainly University Libraries) in the UK. I don’t yet know what I shall talk … Continue reading →

#jiscxyz #quixote Every day brings more interest and excitement in Quixote. We are getting groups who are interested in using it (a) for education – managing student experiments and projects and creating Open educational resources and (b) publishing. Here I … Continue reading →

Departmental announcement: It is with great personal regret that [we] have to tell you that Professor Dudley Williams FRS died early today in Arthur Rank House after a short illness. In the early 1960s, as a postdoc with Carl Djerassi … Continue reading →

#jiscopenbib #jiscxyz I have a three dimensional-vector of my state – the axes are Busy/Happy/Tired. They are somewhat but not completely orthogonal. So today is 9/11/10 (I mark out of 10). If the B goes above 10 then we call … Continue reading →