Yearly Archives: 2008

Just got back from a fantastic 3.5 weeks in Australia where so many people looked after us so well. I’m more or less gutted (ended up with 7 presentations, all somewhat different, and a lot of discussions). It’s really helped … Continue reading →

From Open Access News: UAuckland to embed CC metadata for theses in its IR 03:43 01/03/2008, Gavin Baker, Open Access News Michelle Thorne, University of Auckland embeds CC licensing, Creative Commons blog, February 28, 2008. The University of Auckland has … Continue reading →

I was delighted to receive the following letter, with support from Joel Sussman… Hi Dr. Murray-Rust, I’m a student in Joel Sussman’s lab at the Weizmann Insitute of Science. Joel, Jaime Prilusky and I have developed Proteopedia, a new online … Continue reading →

From Peter Suber’s Open Access Blog: Robert Massie on OA 15:39 26/02/2008, Peter Suber, Open Access News InfoInnovation has blogged some notes on Robert Massie’s talk at the NFAIS Annual Conference (Philadelphia, February 24-26, 2008). Massie is the president of … Continue reading →

Very brief. Had an excellent time in South Australia hosted by Philip Lock. Presented to Computer Science Department at UNISA and developed more ideas in “can machines understand chemistry”. A lot of synergy in discussion over XML, RDF, etc. Then … Continue reading →

A brief update. We’ve been magnificently entertained by Phil Lock in his beach house south of Adelaide (I’m still getting to grips with the local directions in Australian cities). Also a tour of Adelaide – highlight is the statue of … Continue reading →

So much is happeing that I have little time to blog but I HAVE to say thank you to so many people. First Alison Edwards and Graham Heath for several days’ hospitality. To their colleagues at ANU and ANSTO. Many … Continue reading →

I’m now in ANSTO – Australia’s (deliberately) lone reactor, hosted by Alison Edwards. Alison and Graham Heath have looked after me and Judith fantastically over the last few days, at Wollongong and elsewhere. I’m talking on “The Semantic Web abd … Continue reading →