Monthly Archives: November 2011

#quixote #chempound The eResearch workshop on Semantic Physical Science was a technical success and has convinced me that now anyone can deploy our Chempound semantic repository. If you don’t know what a repository does, here is an explanation (you need … Continue reading →

#eres2011 Nico Adams , Alex wade and I ran a 1-day workshop yesterday at eResearch. Very well attended (30 participants) who were mainly well prepared – we’d asked for Java installed if possible. The programme was ambitious, roughly:   Nico … Continue reading →

@jenny_molloy has created a top class summary of #ORR2011 at http://science.okfn.org/2011/10/29/okfn-at-oss2011-open-research-reports/ . It will point you to the discussions, the presentations and the latest URLs for the workshop, etc. We have a wiki at http://wiki.okfn.org/Wg/Science/swat4ls_hackathon Jenny and I have created … Continue reading →

#eres2011 So it’s great to be at eResearch Melbourne. Sitting with Alex wade and Nico Adams (we are giving a semantic workshop on Thursday). And forget about Open stuff for a while. At the get-together I’ve met many old acquaintances. … Continue reading →

I am back in Melbourne for the eResearch meeting. Nico Adams, Alex Wade and I are giving a workshop on “The Semantic Web for Physical Science”. (The bio- world is spilling over with semantic stuff and Nico has done some … Continue reading →

[Briefer than I would have liked as MSWord crashed and so did the document recovery.] I explained that I blogged everything now as Open. Imagine what I wrote and Word wiped out. This blog is mainly for my own memory. … Continue reading →

I am really excited to be at PNNL – there has been a queue of people wanting to talk about semantic data. We go over the fundamentals – if there are N ontologists in a room there are > N^2 … Continue reading →

[EBI? – Europe’s a sort of nation!] I and others have been trudging a lonely path trying to get people to think about managing their data in semantic form. Henry and I have pushed Chemical Markup Language for 17 years … Continue reading →