Monthly Archives: March 2009

More thoughts on Microsoft funding

Bill Hooker has expanded his views on funding from Microsoft and I’ll also comment on Peter Sefton’s comment… Peters Murray-Rust and Sefton on “science and selfishness” Peter Murray-Rust (welcome back to blogging!) has replied to Glyn Moody’s post about semantic … Continue reading

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Egon Willighagen and CML

One of the problems of having deserted blogging for months is that there is a lot to catch up with. So here’s the third post today. (I vowed not to post even once a day but…).  Here Egon reviews Chemical … Continue reading

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Open Science, Closed Source and Microsoft

Glyn Moody and I share many of the same views but here is an area where we differ. His position is straightforward and logically defensible – mine is less clear but – in my own mind – tenable. Currently I … Continue reading

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"The JISC" and the "JISCWorld"

I got the a mail from “The JISC” today about grants – for those who don’t know The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) is funded by the UK HE and FE funding bodies2 to provide world-class leadership in the innovative … Continue reading

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Take a look at Timetric and MaterialsGrid

From Sean McGrath’s blog: Some time ago, I had some ideas burning a hole in my head. Ideas I knew I had no time to pursue but felt pretty passionate about. My Two Django ideas in need of good homes … Continue reading

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UKPMC blog

As a memeber of UKPMC advisory, I’d like to highlight their blog. Here’s Peter Suber’s comments: UK PubMed Central launched a blog on March 2.  Already it’s posted several developments which I haven’t seen elsewhere: March 2:  The Company of … Continue reading

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Approaches to compound documents – ORE, PDF, DOCX

A very thoughtful and timely comment from Tobias Kind: as you mentioned Chem4Word, what happens to such a (semantically enriched) word document as seen at http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/chem4word/ when journals will convert it to a “flat” 2D bitmap “dumb” PDF. Basically information … Continue reading

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Open Knowledge Foundation and OKCON 2009

I am very proud to be part of the Open Knowledge Foundation – which has an amazing set of activities and a continually growing group of activists. Founded in 2004 we’re a not-for-profit organization promoting open knowledge: that’s any kind … Continue reading

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Catherine Murray-Rust on CBS

Many of you in the Library world will know Catherine and probably have seen her interview on CBS News where she talks about her colon cancer and the US health insurance system: For those who haven’t, here’s her page at … Continue reading

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Peer Review – I write unacceptable code

I have so much stored up that I need to write about that I shall be triggered by random occurrences. On Thursday Joe told me (and colleagues) that some of the code I had written in our Microsoft Chem4Word project … Continue reading

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