Monthly Archives: August 2007

miniblogosphere

Posted on August 12, 2007 by pm286

Here’s Pimm (attilachordash) with a nice picture of the linkages in the scifoo tag cloud. SciFoo links visualized by TouchGraph Google Browser Posted by attilachordash on August 11th, 2007 The Google Hacks book from O’Reilly was one out of the free … Continue reading →

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save our spectra

Posted on August 12, 2007 by pm286

Data in chemistry publications is very standardized which makes it possible (not easy) to think about robotic extraction of information. I’ve blogged earlier about the use of text, but what about graphics? This post shows the potential, but also the … Continue reading →

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open data: public domain?

Posted on August 11, 2007 by pm286

David Wiley has a useful post on the “public domain”. I had always assumed that the public domain was fairly simple – certain types of content were de facto PD, authors could easily donate their work to the PD, and … Continue reading →

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open data: concepts from David Wiley

Posted on August 11, 2007 by pm286

David Wiley has commented very clearly on the issues involved in licensing content (or putting it in the public domain). This is the first of two posts, with my comments interjected. By background, David seems to be writing in an … Continue reading →

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open data: are licenses needed?

Posted on August 11, 2007 by pm286

Now that I’m back to regular rhythms and the intensity of scifoo has subsided I’m back to the current main obsession of this blog: access to data and its re-use. It’s catalysed by a post from Peter Suber commenting on … Continue reading →

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scifoo: images

Posted on August 9, 2007 by pm286

This blog doesn’t have many pictures but these remind me of three sessions at scifoo with a chance to say a little more after the event. I shan’t (== can’t) identify everyone so feel free to annotate… Andrew Walkingshaw presenting … Continue reading →

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blogging 101

Posted on August 9, 2007 by pm286

Today I seem to be catching up with the continuing background radiation from scifoo and it’s a good way to wind down the jetlag. Here’s Richard Akerman again showing that we really went to scifoo. This learning session also was … Continue reading →

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towards repeatability: push to re-run

Posted on August 9, 2007 by pm286

Although repeatability has always been a key part of formal scientific procedure we are now finding several new tools to help us. In principle we can capture every moment of the scientific process and “replay” it for others. Here is … Continue reading →

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Repositories: give us the tools

Posted on August 9, 2007 by pm286

From Peter Sefton’s blog: Why not HTML for online journals? People need the right tools. 00:43 09/08/2007, Sefton I have already mentioned this blog post lamenting the use of PDF instead of HTML in an online journal: In short, choosing … Continue reading →

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Wiley: your supporting information for chemistry isn't satisfactory

Posted on August 9, 2007 by pm286

It has become increasingly common for journals to offer – or require – “supporting information” (“supplemental data”, etc.) as an adjunct to the “full-text” article. This is now an essential part of much publications and this post shows how when … Continue reading →

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