Monthly Archives: October 2011

Yesterday I posted an analysis (/pmr/2011/10/21/open-access-works-articles-matter-not-journals/ ) of the accesses to the papers from our special symposium (“Visions of a Semantic Molecular Future). In it I claimed that it no longer matters where you publish but what you publish. It … Continue reading →

As part of our Open Biblio project Jim and I were looking for lists of journal references to turn in BibJSON. I thought that I’d take some of our article listing from “Visions of a Semantic Molecular Future” (http://www.jcheminf.com/series/semantic_mol_future ) … Continue reading →

I am spending 4 wonderful days working at Berkeley with Jim Pitman on Open Bibliography and BibJSON having met Jim and Karen Coyle IRL for the first time. Bibliography? Boring… No. Bibliography is the Map Of Scholarship. It tells us … Continue reading →

We’ve finished our session on Walled Gardens at the Serpentine Gallery Marathon – great fun (and a lovely day)     Here’s the human team: L-R PM-R, David Rowan (who brought this together), Emer Coleman David gave a powerful presentation … Continue reading →

I am delighted to say that the special issue of the PM-R symposium (Visions of a Semantic Molecular Future in January) has now been published by Biomed Central in J. Cheminformatics (http://www.jcheminf.com/ ). There’s fifteen papers and I hope that … Continue reading →

This post is primarily for the publicity-seeking animals to get their Serpentine presentation another plug. They have demanded to come, so we have created a big box for them which also doubles as a walled garden – cf Midsummer Night’s … Continue reading →

I am really impressed and excited by the creation of the Science Code Manifesto under the auspices of the Climate Code Foundation (see http://climatecode.org/blog/2011/10/science-code-manifesto/ ). I’ve had nothing directly to do with the formulation, other than being part of the … Continue reading →

Two messages yesterday – both on the harm (intended or unintended) of using the word “open”. It’s one of those cuddly, comfort-making, words like “healthy” or “green”. Unless it’s clear what it means , it means anything-you-like, so I use … Continue reading →

Do you ever donate to a medical charity? Or help run a charity shop? On the expectation that your funding will go to research aimed at curing or ameliorating disease?If so, much of the output will be primarily in scientific … Continue reading →

I am at a 2-day (closed) meeting at EBI on Chemical Registry systems and databases (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/industry/Workshops/workshops.html ). I can’t blog this as it’s a closed meeting. However as always I will try to set my own thoughts out. They are … Continue reading →