Monthly Archives: February 2013

A great day for Freedom in Melbourne

I’ve had a hectic day – 0530 -> 2230++ so only the bare bones. And WE’VE been as well (PMR talks grotty photos!) – Chuff and AMI2: In the morning I (PMR) presented the idea that we should create a … Continue reading

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Announce: We (AMI) can now extract semantic information from scientific PDFs

I’m taking this opportunity to announce that we can now extract semantic physical science from the published scientific literature. This means that scholarly publications become a giant distributed knowledgebase. Here’s a very brief sketch… Start with an OPEN ACCESS PDF: … Continue reading

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Topics and Links for my talk on Semantic Web for Materials

Materials and the Semantic Web CSIRO/Iowa, Melbourne, AU, 2013-02-31 Peter Murray-Rust, Unilever Centre for Molecular Sciences Informatics, University of Cambridge Themes The Semantic Web is here; we should adopt it for materials “Computable Wikipedia for materials” Based on Chemical Markup … Continue reading

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Culture for Semantic Materials and the Semantic Web

The semantic web depends on shared cultural values which include: Sharing (resources, tools, data, etc.) Collaboration Use of and contribution to semantic web resources Watch this short, compelling video http://www.youtube.com/user/nyuhsl/videos (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2zK3sAtr-4 ) from NYU Health Sciences Library on why we … Continue reading

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Semantic Science

Today I’m putting forward the value of semantics for materials science and more generally computational science. /pmr/2013/02/03/the-semantic-web-for-materials-science-and-a-great-day-for-melbourne/ Semantics is not just a technology – it’s an attitude of mind. It’s about how we can create a world where humans do … Continue reading

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A semantic puzzle

There was a workshop/summer school before the Materials Informatics conference and I gave a set of exercises which included converting chemistry from legacy to XML. [You DON’T need to understand chemistry or java to tackle this puzzle.] Here’s my Powerpoint … Continue reading

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The Semantic Web for Materials Science (and a great day for Melbourne)

Three important things are happening in Melbourne today. TimBL is speaking, the Age/OKF/Dev8D is running a journo hackfest, and I’m helping to kick off The First International Conference and Summer School in Molecular and Materials Informatics The International Conference and … Continue reading

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