Monthly Archives: February 2013

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →