Monthly Archives: November 2013

Until this week I and other scholars had been generally forbidden to use machines to read the scientific literature and extract facts (“Text and Data Mining”, TDM or “Content-mining”). The STM publishers had prepared a draft licence which can be … Continue reading →

Can Felix and AMI index Lucy’s repo? YES!     At UKSG (which I’ll blog later) I talked about repositories and said that without indexing they were of little value. So #animalgarden were excited to get a tweet from   … Continue reading →

In my presentation to the @UKSG tomorrow I shall argue that the scholarly literature is a vast untapped source of high quality data and can supplant traditional expensive, human abstracting services. The organizers asked me not to present vapourware (which … Continue reading →

We’re now well under way with The Content Mine – a project to extract 100 million facts from the scholarly literature (mainly journals). Here’s how it will work , (also see neighbouring blog posts posts and the video (https://vimeo.com/78353557 , … Continue reading →

I’ve been invited to talk to the UK Serials group. (“Serials” == journals for most people). http://www.uksg.org/event/NOVCONF2013. “Open Access Realities:global experiences of implementing OA”. Here’s the programme: 10.10  Welcome and introduction by the Chair Charlie Rapple, Associate Director, TBI Communications … Continue reading →

A massively valuable meeting at #solo13. I’ve told you how we are going to extract 100 million facts from the scientific literature. That’s an act of faith and we have to start building the reality. We’ve got to work out: … Continue reading →

The last two days I have had a wonderful, if exhausting time at SpotOn (known in the past as Science Blogging and Science Online). Ross and I were organising a session called “What the hack?!” about running science hackdays. Sophie … Continue reading →

I should have blogged this earlier … Today 2013-11-08:1030-1130 UTC Ross Mounce and I are running a 1-hour session “What the hack?! Science Hackdays” at SpotOn 2013. SpotOn has been running for ?6 years and used to be called variously … Continue reading →

The second half of the Shuttleworth application asks how you are going to make it happen. Here’s my proposal. But if I am successful, I know that the Foundation and its fellows will be able to give advice and mentoring … Continue reading →

The Shuttleworth process asks applicants to answer four questions. “Please think about how your idea relates to technology, knowledge and learning and how your idea relates to openness when answering each section.   Describe the world as it is. (A … Continue reading →