Author Archives: pm286

Open Data: I want my data back!

Posted on January 4, 2008 by pm286

var imagebase=\’file://C:/Program Files/FeedReader30/\’;   Although I am mainly concerned with campaigning for data associated with schoilarly publishing to be Open, the term Open Data has also been used in conjunction with personal data “given” or “lent” to third parties (see … Continue reading →

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How to create interactive maps (and graphs?)

Posted on January 2, 2008 by pm286

Peter Sefton at USQ has developed the ICE system – a carefully thought out and engineered system for authoring compound documents in a scholarly environment based largely on XML. He has no illusions about the difficulty of this and the … Continue reading →

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New Year's resolutions

Posted on January 1, 2008 by pm286

Cameron Neylon has made Some New Year’s resolutions I don’t usually do New Year’s resolutions. But in the spirit of the several posts from people looking back and looking forwards I thought I would offer a few. This being an … Continue reading →

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New free journal from Springer – but no Open Data

Posted on December 31, 2007 by pm286

Peter Suber reports: New free journal from Springer Neuroethics is a new peer-reviewed journal from Springer.  Instead of using Springer’s Open Choice hybrid model, it will offer free online access to all its articles, at least for 2008 and 2009. … Continue reading →

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Is the scientific archive safe with publishers?

Posted on December 31, 2007 by pm286

“In the pipeline” is an impressive and much-followed part of the chemical blogosphere. I’m a bit late on its post Kids These Days! which deals in depth with a case (Menger / Christl pyridinium incident) of published scientific error. The … Continue reading →

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Why authoring HTML is still a mess

Posted on December 31, 2007 by pm286

When HTML was launched it us was simple. And it worked if you got it nearly right. (that was in 1993). Now there are so many additions, scripts and so forth that it becomes impossible to re-use parts of other … Continue reading →

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Chemical information on the web – typical problem

Posted on December 31, 2007 by pm286

Here’s a typical problem with chemical (and other) data on the web and elsewhere. I illustrate it with an entry from Wikipedia, knowing that they’ll probably correct it and similar as soon as it’s pointed out. You don’t have to … Continue reading →

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Exploring RDF and CML

Posted on December 30, 2007 by pm286

I’ve taken the chance pf a few days without commitments to investigate how we shall be using RDF. We’ve got several projects where we are starting to use it – CrystalEye – WWMM, eChemistry, SPECTRa : JISC and other ORE-based … Continue reading →

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What does USD 29 billion buy? and what's its value?

Posted on December 28, 2007 by pm286

Like many others I’d like to thank the The Alliance for Taxpayer Access … … a coalition of patient, academic, research, and publishing organizations that supports open public access to the results of federally funded research. The Alliance was formed … Continue reading →

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Why the NIH bill does not require copyright violation

Posted on December 28, 2007 by pm286

  Rich Apodaca is a founder member of the BlueObelisk – which advocates ODOSOS – Open Data, Open Source and Open Standards (mainly in chemistry). Rich has made major contributions in this area and adds valuable insights on his Depth-First … Continue reading →

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