Monthly Archives: March 2012

TomMR made me take a day off to the Guardian Open day http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2012/mar/24/the-guardian-open-weekend-live-blog . For non-UK readers the Guardian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian orginally the Manchester Guardian ) is 180 years old and one of the few non-profit, major daily newspapers. The Guardian … Continue reading →

Jenny Molloy, Diane Cabell, Laura Newman and I have been working to create a considered, hopefully powerful and constructive report to the Hargreaves report recommending the reform of UK copyright. (This is not a formal OKF response – OKF deliberately … Continue reading →

As recipients of the Skolnik award Henry Rzepa and I are organizing the symposium at the ACS Fall meeting in Philadelphia http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_ARTICLEMAIN&node_id=395&content_id=CNBP_029137&use_sec=true&sec_url_var=region1&__uuid=2f5d0717-e31c-47f1-af30-0a1337afd759. (Aug 19-23). Depending on how many abstracts we receive this will last between 1 and 3 days, most … Continue reading →

I’ve extremely busy so this is just to let anyone know I am still working on a number of threads. Chem4Word. We had a really valuable discussion yesterday (sic) in Microsoft Research Cambridge with Alex Wade, Joe Townsend, Clyde Davies … Continue reading →

Dear #sparc2012 I am very sorry that I can’t be physically present with you, especially since we are at a critical time for #scholpub. I’d have liked to meet and come up with new ideas on how to change the … Continue reading →

In our current search [some request only went out on Saturday] for factual information from publishers on permission for “text-mining” the position is: Elsevier. Permission granted in principle for PM-R. [PMR and community is now gearing up to extract factual … Continue reading →

This is the last of the current series of requests to publishers for freedom to mine factual information. Note “freedom”, not “permission”. I don’t ask permission to speak in public, I take it as a freedom. I have now sent … Continue reading →

I have sent the following letter to Philip Campbell, editor of Nature. In it I request freedom to mine factual information without legal or technical barriers. We have worked closely with Timo Hannay (then of NPG) and no of Digital … Continue reading →

Here is a letter I have sent to Madeleine Jacobs, CEO of the American Chemistry Society (ACS) and former director of publications. In it I ask for freedom to extract factual information from the full-text of ACS journals. Henry Rzepa … Continue reading →

I’ve now asked the Royal Society of Chemistry for permission to extract factual information from the journals to which Cambridge subscribes. For background for non-chemists, the RSC has supported our research in information mining through funding summer students, and in … Continue reading →