Monthly Archives: February 2013

I am developing ideas for my 15-minute presentation at #rds2013 http://cdrs.columbia.edu/cdrsmain/2013/01/esearch-data-symposium-february-27-2013/ . I spent yesterday at a wonderful hackathon run by OKF (Ross Mounce and Rufus Pollock) as part of the worldwide OpenDataDay. http://okfn.org/events/open-data-day-2013/ (Hacking for Health, photo: Ross Mounce) … Continue reading →

I’m actively putting together what I intend to present at #rds2013 – Managing Research Data – on Feb 27th next Wednesday. It’s difficult to present in 15 minutes something whose details need years to work out. And something where there … Continue reading →

The average large STM publisher receives several thousand USD (either in subscriptions or in author processing charges (APC)) to process an article. This huge and unjustified sum contains not only obscene profits (30-40 %) but also gross inefficiencies and often … Continue reading →

I’m (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Murray-Rust ) sadly leaving CSIRO (http://www.csiro.au/) and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia on Wed (but I plan to be back). This post is very brief and illustrates how far the semantic web has come in some areas. Here I have included PLACES DATES … Continue reading →

 [Coped from http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal . PMR: I find this very clearly argued and very compelling] The Finch Report says a good deal more about Green, and repositories, than your representation suggests but, of course, anyone can judge for themselves by looking … Continue reading →

PMR has been hacking bugs with MJ and AMI2… PMR: PDF2SVG should now manage Type0 fonts and we’ve fixed bugs on some character processing. Now let’s look at the Dingbats… AMI, do you have a Dingbat lookup-table? A: No P: … Continue reading →

#animalgarden is mining the content in Open Access articles. [They don’t know what “Open Access” means [PMR: nor do I] so they are using CC-BY ]. They’re using Mike (Dino) Taylor’s papers as it’s about dinosaurs, giraffes and okapis (Chuff: … Continue reading →

#animalgarden are excited (AMI2, Sleepless and Chuff) are meeting in Melbourne. Chuff the @okfn_okapi has told them that people are interested in biodiversity. Chuff says that’s about animals and plants. PMR tells them that’s there a new journal, PeerJ, which … Continue reading →

These are thoughts for my 15-minute session at #rds2013. Feel free to comment. I’d particularly like to know of any F/OSS that manages timed slide presentation on Windows so I don’t have to use Powerpoint. I have 900 seconds including … Continue reading →

I’m setting out what I want to present at Columbia #rds2013 in a series of posts. I’ve got 15 mins to present- this is good discipline and it means I have to work very hard to prepare – I can’t … Continue reading →