Yearly Archives: 2008

Yesterday we were shown round Canberra including the Botanic Gardens with a splendid Eucalypt garden – the species vary enormously in texture, smooth, rough, shaggy, etc. and the splendid Scribbly gum whose scribbles are made by the Scribbly Gum Moth. … Continue reading →

This week Judith M-R and I will be visiting and giving talks. Judith’s is on structural biology, mine on the semantic web and physical science (which has the overt agenda of also neeting multidisciplinary scientists and seeing whether there is … Continue reading →

We have had a wonderful time and been looked after fantastically by our Australian (Strine) hosts. (The pronunciation matters – when we arrived in Melbourne we needed to go to Prahran – a very lively and well-known suburb. Our English … Continue reading →

I’m delighted to report the launch of the Open Definition Advisory Council. When Rufus  Pollock first bent my ear on Open Knowledge (perhaps 3+ years ago) I didn’t really understand it. Now its role is absolutely clear – we need … Continue reading →

Brief update as I haven’t been able to log in… Very good meeting today at Brisbane – in the Customs House which belongs to the University of Brisbane, Queensland [Sorry! Got it right lower :-)] overlooks the river. On APSR … Continue reading →

Feed of structures in CrystalEye Continue reading →

First try at publishing directly to WordPress from ICE Continue reading →

First to thank Peter Sefton and family for looking after me so well. We’re just about to see the sights of Toowoomba – The garden city. I gave a talk yesterday about the Semantic web and other stuff and used … Continue reading →

After several abortive attempts a correspondent asked on the CML Blog: “How do you put in XML?” I’m at one of the best places in the world to answer this (perhaps after a day more). I’ve travelled to the University … Continue reading →

There have been some general suggestions that the stereochemistry in CrystalEye structures may have errors. This is entirely possible as it’s quite difficult to check in unit tests without a large corpus of correctly annotated examples. We’d be grateful for … Continue reading →