Monthly Archives: September 2012

Update: OKFest is being streamed today: http://okfestival.org/streams/aalto-pro-lecture-room/ (6 viewers so far) Jenny Molloy is introducing. Now Puneet Kishor from CC-science See http://science.okfn.org/blog for details. Yesterday we hacked PyBossa for crowdsourcing of spintronics. I will update this blog over the next … Continue reading →

The great things about a good hackathon is that you don’t know what you will be doing until you get together and pool ideas and expertise. Today we have our Open culture and science hack-day. About 20 “streams” ranging from … Continue reading →

Today is when people start arriving en masse for OKFest – the main sessions start tomorrow. I’m hanging out with the organizers, volunteers , etc. The staff and volunteers are doing the last-minute stuff whih is always more than you … Continue reading →

OKFest is about fun, and making things (and a lot more). So here’s examples of our laser cutting badges. Chuff went to Massimo, smiled and asked could he have a name badge. “#OKFEST, CHUFF, OKAPI”. He is now the smartest … Continue reading →

Scientists write articles so people can read them. But now we’ve realised that machines can read them as well. And we have argued /pmr/2012/09/16/our-manifesto-the-right-to-read-is-the-right-to-mine-universities-you-must-fight-for-open-content-mining-before-its-too-late/ that if you subscribe to read an article you also have the right to use machines … Continue reading →

I am at #okfest in Helsinki – 13 (THIRTEEN) separate tracks on Openness. I am already gutted that I shall miss most of them because they are in parallel. I’m helping run Open Research and Education and obviously that will … Continue reading →

Over the last ten years University (Libraries) have signed or resigned one million contracts with scholarly publishers (eg. Elsevier) which forbid re-use of the subscribed material. Thus, for example, if your university rents a scientific journal for 5000 USD a … Continue reading →

It’s a very busy time for #animalgarden – the group of animals committed to Openness. Last month they made the allegorical movie of weak chemical AI (“Magic Chemical Panda”, /pmr/2012/08/17/animalgarden-present-the-chemical-chinese-room-at-the-american-chemical-society-meeting/ and ). Now they’ve been busy on #openbiblio and #okfest. … Continue reading →

Next Tuesday I am giving an invited talk at Oxford on Open Data http://digital-research.oerc.ox.ac.uk/ , http://digital-research.oerc.ox.ac.uk/programme , and also involved with a session run by the OKF immediately afterwards. As always I don’t know what I am going to say … Continue reading →