Monthly Archives: December 2013

Marc Joffe of http://www.publicsectorcredit.org/ has an ambition – to make Open vast amounts of spending data in California. The Sunlight Foundation has funded Marc (http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/07/05/opengov-voices-local-government-financial-transparency-scalling-it-up/ ) – the problem is that the data is present in PDFs. So Marc mailed … Continue reading →

Jenny Molloy and Michelle Brooks have done a wonderful job in driving forward Open Science within the OKFN. Science is a huge topic and there are many areas where the Open philosophy and tools are now critical. Here’s Jenny’s end-of-year … Continue reading →

  Chuff: Hello Gulliver! I’m the OKFN OKAPI. Gulliver: Hello! I’m Gulliver, the BMC turtle. C: I know – you’ve got a blog http://gulliverturtle.wordpress.com/ where you tell the world about #openaccess. What’s #ami2 doing? G: She’s crawling BioMedCentral content. C: … Continue reading →

Yesterday International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) issued a welcome statement on TDM: http://www.ifla.org/publications/ifla-statement-on-text-and-data-mining-2013. Snippets: IFLA maintains that legal certainty for text and data mining (TDM) can only be achieved by (statutory) exceptions. As an organization committed to … Continue reading →

A lot has happened in the last month and it’s kept me so busy that I haven’t blogged as much as I would have liked. The simple message is that we are starting to mine the scholarly literature on global … Continue reading →

I got a request today offering help for CM. Great! CM isn’t a single activity –ideally it’s a community of collaborating people and organizations combining resources. The first thing you can do is join, and post to, https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-contentmining. Here’s what … Continue reading →

Larry Lessig has mailed today to remember Aaron Swartz and to join a many-day walk through New Hampshire. Is anything planned in UK/Europe? Seven years ago this January, Aaron Swartz visited me in Berlin to convince me to give up … Continue reading →

There is now an unstoppable interest and desire for content-mining. People want to know how, when where – what the problems are … all sorts of things. So Jenny Molloy and Katelyn Rogers (OKFN) have set up a mailing list. … Continue reading →

On Monday, December 16, 2013 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (GMT) Cambridge, United Kingdom http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/would-you-share-your-genome-sequence-tickets-9293969513 we are running our second Open Science meeting, in the Panton Arms. It’s led by Fiona Nielsen, founder of DNADigest, a non-profit startup : … Continue reading →

In Orwell’s 1984 the Ministry of Truth rewrote history and rewrote the present. Orwell showed that if you control the provision of information you can alter people’s thoughts and values. I think we are in great danger of scholarly publishing … Continue reading →