Monthly Archives: July 2010

Typed and scraped into Arcturus A very important comment from Henry Rzepa [http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=2488&cpage=1#comment-471129 ] on how publishers destroy semantics. [HSR] This Peter does not mention above, but you will find a fully explained example of how to create a domain … Continue reading →

Dictated into Arcturus This post is a first outline – not even a draft – of a proposed Panton Paper on “Repositories for Scientific Data” [Note: This is likely to be controversial.] Very soon we will need to decide where … Continue reading →

Dictated to Arcturus Tomorrow I shall be going to Berkeley to the Open Science Summit. I am creating some audio visual material which is somewhat unconventional and takes us back to the Bay Area of 50 years ago. I’ll say … Continue reading →

Typed into Arcturus This post is a first outline – not even a draft – of a proposed Panton Paper on “Who owns scientific data? Anyone?” [Note: I am using a blog format to explore these issues. This is partly … Continue reading →

Typed into Arcturus This post is a first outline – not even a draft – of a proposed Panton Paper on “Why Scientific Data should be Open” This outline is largely a rework of material that I first exposed on … Continue reading →

Typed into Arcturus apologies for formatting – Word=> WordPress has somehow trashed the paragraphs This post is a first outline – not even a draft – of a proposed Panton Paper on “What is Scientific Data?” The Panton Principles have … Continue reading →

Typed and scraped into Arcturus [Pedantic note: I use “data” as either a singular or plural noun according to the feel of the sentence.] This and following posts have several purposes. They are to help me get my ideas in … Continue reading →

Typed and scraped into Arcturus The following recent story in the Times Higher Educational Supplement (the “mainstream” magazine for HE in the UK) shows why we desperately need a clear basis for discussing data. I’ll comment inline, but initially just … Continue reading →

Typed into Arcturus After a period of silence on this blog (but not on the Open Knowledge Foundation lists) I hope to publish a flurry of ideas on Open Data. There is no doubt that “Open Data” has arrived and … Continue reading →

Written on a plane from Seattle toSF Arcturus I haven’t blogged for a while but there is just so much going on that I haven’t had a moment. I’m now in a plane (Alaska Air) with free wifi. (Unfortunately it’s … Continue reading →