Yearly Archives: 2008

A very important piece of work from RIN – about the critical need for data. Peter Suber has summarised it but you have to read it. This study whould be on the top of all science funders’ reading. The research … Continue reading →

Owen Stephens has blogged the day and also linked to the Twitter log. First here’s Owen’s record. I am really impressed by yhe amount he has covered – some of the slides are almost verbatim. This is much better than … Continue reading →

I’ve just been to Birmingham / Solihull to the Talis Xiphos Research Day. Talis are a Library company transmogrifying into a Semantic Web company and have a great vision of the potential future. Xiphos is a potential product – somewhere … Continue reading →

In a recent post ( Text-mining at ERBI : Nothing is 100%;) I set a little problem – asking you to make estimates of the number of named chemical entities in a piece of experimental text. At the ERBI meeting … Continue reading →

Because comments were getting lost in the Akismet spam (over 200,000 spams since the start of this blog) we have changed the mechanism to reCAPTCHA where commenters have to enter simple words. I hope this is not too problematics but … Continue reading →

In a previous post ( Text-mining at ERBI : Nothing is 100%;) I asked the readership to suggest how many chemical entities there were in a given paragraph. I intended to your replies – and comments – to help clarify … Continue reading →

Peter Suber writes: Elsevier’s first quarter lobbying budget 22:55 04/06/2008, Peter Suber, Reed Elsevier 1Q lobbying reached $790,000, Associated Press, June 4, 2008.  Excerpt: The U.S. unit of Reed Elsevier Group PLC spent $790,000 in the first quarter to lobby…the … Continue reading →

It’s always fun to find one’s blogging picked up in places you didn’t know existed – that’s a great virtue of the trackback system. This is from insideHPC.com (“HPC news for supercomputing professionals. * Reading the HPC news, so you … Continue reading →

I was delighted to be asked to speak at a meeting of ERBI in Cambridge yesterday evening. ERBI is (roughly) a get-together of scientists and IT people in the dynamic biotech companies from the Cambridge region (“The Health, Wealth and … Continue reading →

It’s out… Many thanks to Connie Foster (editor) for her patience. From Peter Suber: New issue of Serials Review on OA Revisited 17:33 04/06/2008, Gavin Baker, The March issue of Serials Review (just out, apparently) is devoted to Open Access … Continue reading →