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Monthly Archives: May 2009
Can we create Web Democracy for the UK?
Can we create Web Democracy for the UK? Continue reading
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Should the Foology Society sell its journals to commercial publishers
Should the Foology Society sell its journals to commercial publishers Continue reading
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The Panton Principles: A breakthrough on data licensing for public science?
The Panton Principles: A breakthrough on data licensing for public science? Continue reading
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OPSIN: why it can become the de facto name2structure
In a previous post I reviewed our chemical language processing tools – OSCAR and OPSIN. This post updates progress on OPSIN, the IUPACName2Structure converter. Why do we need a name2structure converter? It’s because chemists use language to communicate the identities … Continue reading
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funding models for software, OSCAR meets OMII
In a previous post I introduced our chemical natural language tools OSCAR and OPSIN. They are widely used, but in academia there is a general problem – there isn’t a simple way to finance the continued development and maintenance of … Continue reading
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OPSIN and OSCAR – Chemical language processing
This blog is about new developments in our chemical language processors OSCAR and OPSIN and about how OMII (eScience) and we are taking them forward. WE also have a JISC project with NacTEM – CheTA and I’ll write more later … Continue reading
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Congratulations to RSC and Chemspider
I was delighted to hear from colleagues at the Royal Society of Chemistry that they have acquired Antony Williams Chemspider. I had the chance to have a long talk with Antony two weeks ago at BioIT and we discussed possible … Continue reading
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Stop the blacklist of UK scientists
I recently blogged about the UK’s Eng and Phys. Sci Res. Council (EPSRC)’ s retrograde policy to blacklist any scientist who had three grants rejected. There is now a petition – ON THE PRIMEMINISTERS SITE – allowing scientists to petition … Continue reading
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Windows 7, ICE and "Program Files"
<!– @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } A:link { so-language: zxx } –> I’ve just upgraded to Windows 7 (beta, I think). I’m trying to post this with ICE/OO which currently throws an error message that … Continue reading
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