“Power corrupts; Powerpoint corrupts absolutely” (Tufte)

My talk is through HTML links – you need to be on the web.

Reclaim Our Scholarship

[was: Bottom-up collaborations in the Internet Age]

VIVO12, Miami, US

Peter Murray-Rust, Unilever Centre for Molecular Sciences Informatics, University of Cambridge

Themes

• Restrictive practices in #scholpub are costing billions
• The direct fruits of science are denied to 99% of the human race – everywhere. The “scholarly poor”
• Most scientific data (80%+) is lost. Much of the rest is walled up by publishers
• The only answer is REAL OPEN.
• Individuals and small groups can change the world
• VIVO could be a key point in this change

Text for today – from SciVal (Elsevier) flyer
… “[In VIVO] [Elsevier] combine rich Scopus(R) publication histories, your institution’s own content and individual researcher data in semantic form, and share this information as linked open data.”

PMR mission – to create robots to liberate all published factual scientific content. “liberation software”

• I may audio-record my speech/ ??questions?? All outcome will be CC0.
• What is composition of audience?
• The Twitter stream is for YOUR comments and questions. I shall take questions on the stream first and Alicia will read them.
• Flowerpoint – my homage to Berkeley
• 5-star data
• Linked Open Data
• Open Knowledge Foundation
• Open Definition
• OKF open-access
• Panton Principles
• Panton Arms
• “Walled gardens” #Animalgarden https://vimeo.com/34323486
• Do walled gardens exist in #scholpub?
• Springergate
• Springergate chemistry
• Springer “copyright”
• The scholarly poor
• http://whoneedsaccess.org/
• @ccess success stories
• The scholarly poor start building… based on bibliography
• Bibsoup for malaria
• Bibliography is the map of scholarship. We are creating Open Bibliography to liberate it
• Bibsoup
• BibJSON
• Data liberation. What a single 3rd year postgraduate can do
• Crystaleye
• OPSIN chemical name translator 97% recal, 99.9% accurate
• ChemicalTagger 500,000 reactions from patents
• We subscribe to the literature. “The right to read is the right to mine”
• Elsevier Directrix of Universal Access
• So can a few people – without funding – change the world?
• Chemical MIME 2 pints beer; viral growth in 1994 – toook 6 weeks.
• SAX-history
• Open streetmap ONE person (Steve Coates) + 500,000 volunteers. No bank account!
• Blue Obelisk Open source chemical community. 20 groups; interoperable. Mantra: ODOSOS (Open Data, Open Source, Open Standards). 25USD per year (2 obelisk prizes)
• Universal extraction of scientific content
• Extraction of content from a thesis (local demo only)
• Extraction of phylogenetic trees (local demo only)
• I am looking for collaborators who share this vision and approach
• VIVO could be the center of Truly Open academic bibliography and data – if you share this vision

addendum
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