Monthly Archives: April 2009

library of the future – warming down

Posted on April 4, 2009 by pm286

I’m winding down on the library of the future theme – I am impatient to tell you about Chem4Word, whether and how we can rescue Cheminformatics from its current position as a pseudoscience, how to do language processing and textmining … Continue reading →

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librarians of the future – Christine and Kimberley

Posted on April 3, 2009 by pm286

It was great to meet up again with Christine Borgman from UCLA at the Microsoft meeting. Christine and I have much in common about what needs to be done for digital scholarship. Christine runs a Masters (I think) in LIS … Continue reading →

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libraries of the future – what I shall say

Posted on April 2, 2009 by pm286

I am blogging what I hope to cover in my 15 minutes.and I am speaking from the view of practising STM researchers in publicly funded institutions. Please feel free to follow the links during the presentation. There are also ca … Continue reading →

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Wellcome would like comments on author-pays licence

Posted on April 1, 2009 by pm286

Robert Kiley has asked me to help garner comment on a potentially restrictive author-pays (or as may be funder-pays) licence. I’ll post him in full and add my own comment. Open access licence: researcher opinion sought A learned society has … Continue reading →

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Chem4Word at Microsoft External Research Symposium

Posted on April 1, 2009 by pm286

I took several months off blogging – completely. Why? Because I was concentrating on Chem4Word – a semantic chemical authoring tool sponsored by and jointly built with Microsoft External Research in Redmond. In this and subsequent posts I’ll now tell … Continue reading →

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libraries of the future – "just do it"

Posted on April 1, 2009 by pm286

I have the phrase “just do it” associated with TimBL – certainly he was saying it at WWW in Banff during the semantic web workshops. (see, e.g. http://www.w3.org/2001/04/30-tbl). What I take this to mean is that if you spend too … Continue reading →

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libraries of the future – more comments

Posted on April 1, 2009 by pm286

Landed a few hours ago and trying to get my ideas together for tomorrow.  There’s apparentyly over 170 participants (or at least respondees) who have returned queries for the panel. There needs to be some filtering or grouping as we … Continue reading →

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