Monthly Archives: November 2007

Breaking the ICE

Posted on November 9, 2007 by pm286

Peter Sefton at University of Southern Queensland (USQ) has developed a well-thought-out and engineered system for authoring semantic documents.  We talked earlier this year at ETD2007 (blogged). Now he writes about how to get it adopted: Breaking the ICE Over … Continue reading →

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Give Us the Data Raw, and Give it to Us Now

Posted on November 8, 2007 by pm286

Rufus Pollock (OKFN) expresses a common sentiment Give Us the Data Raw, and Give it to Us Now One thing I find remarkable about many data projects is how much effort goes into developing a shiny front-end for the material. … Continue reading →

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Students and the Scholarly revolution

Posted on November 8, 2007 by pm286

Gavin Baker, Student activism: How students use the scholarly communication system, College & Research Libraries News, November 10, 2007. (Peter Suber’s excerpt) Faculty aren’t the only users of the scholarly communication system. Students also depend on it for their education, … Continue reading →

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Open Data and Moral Rights

Posted on November 8, 2007 by pm286

Kaitlin Thaney, Project Manager, Science Commons pointed me to her colleague’s post on moral rights. “Our legal counsel, Thinh Nguyen has just posted a bit on the relationship between and issues regarding CC licenses, OA and moral rights. Worth a … Continue reading →

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Unlock the PDFs

Posted on November 7, 2007 by pm286

Heather Morrison shows how “locked” PDFs disadvantage the print disabled. Via Peter Suber: Heather Morrison, Unlock the PDFs, for the print disabled (and open access, too), a posting to SOAF and other lists, November 6, 2007.  Excerpt: For the print … Continue reading →

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Open NMR: Nick Day's "final" results

Posted on November 7, 2007 by pm286

Nick has more-or-less finished the computational NMR work on compounds from NMRShiftDB and we are exposing as much of the work as technically possible. Here is his interim report, some of which I trailed yesterday. The theoretical calculation (rmpw1pw91/6-31g(d,p)) involves: … Continue reading →

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CrystalEye: using the harvester

Posted on November 7, 2007 by pm286

Jim Downing has written a harvester for CrystalEye. I thought I would have a try and see if I could iterate through all the entries and extract the temperature of the experiment. This is where XML really starts to show … Continue reading →

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Open Learn

Posted on November 6, 2007 by pm286

From the Open Knowledge Foundation blog Open Learn 2007 19:03 05/11/2007, jwyg, events, external, metadata, musings, Open Knowledge Foundation Weblog Last week I [?Jonathan Gray?] went to the OpenLearn 2007 conference hosted at the Open University. A lot was packed … Continue reading →

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Open NMR: Nick Day's misassignment detector plot

Posted on November 6, 2007 by pm286

It has become clear that a number of structures in the NMRShiftDB data set probably have misassigned peaks. A very common situation is where two peaks are misassigned to a pair of atoms (i.e. peakA is assigned to atomA and … Continue reading →

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Open NMR: Update

Posted on November 6, 2007 by pm286

Prompted by an enquiry today [below] it’s a good time to update about the project. I haven’t talked to Nick today but he mailed earlier and I’ll quote from his mail, which we hope to post in full when we … Continue reading →

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