Monthly Archives: May 2013

Academia should not wait for publishers to make the rules; WE should make them.

[I shall be arguing at SePublica http://sepublica.mywikipaper.org/drupal/ that WE have to take control of OUR scholarship, and that semantics are one of our tools to help us.] A recent post (http://aoasg.org.au/2013/05/23/walking-in-quicksand-keeping-up-with-copyright-agreements/) from the The Australian Open Access Support Group (AOASG) … Continue reading

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Jailbreaking the PDF, a collaborative #scholrev project, WE not I

I am really excited about the #scholrev hackathon program put together as “Jailbreaking the PDF”: some additional information at http://duraspace.org/jailbreaking-pdf-hackathon From Alexander Garcia and Alex Garcia-Castro Montpellier, France  The upcoming “Jailbreaking the PDF” hackathon (http://scholrev.org/hackathon) will be held Monday, May 27 … Continue reading

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Building an OKFN model for reproducible economics; why we need it (and a puzzle for you).

On Saturday we are having an economics hackathon in London. I’d love to be there but unfortunately am going to the Eur Sem Web Conf in Montpelier. It’s run by Velichka and colleagues – here’s the sort of reason why … Continue reading

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JailBreaking the PDF

The Scholarly Revolution #scholrev is forging ahead. Alexander Garcia Castro is running a fantastic hackathon n Montpelier immediately after the SePublica Polemics workshop.   Join us in Montpellier for a one-day event to hack on scholarly PDFs! Do you have … Continue reading

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SePublica: Polemics in the Semantic Web (SEWC) – we need “the crazy ones”!

I have been very honoured to be invited to lead off a workshop session at the European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC). This workshop is a radical initiative to change the way we think about information. Here’s the description: http://sepublica.mywikipaper.org/drupal/ There … Continue reading

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