Author Archives: pm286

What we do at UCC – job opportunity in Polymer Informatics

Posted on June 26, 2007 by pm286

I don’t normally say very much in this blog about what our day jobs are; now is a useful time to do so. The Centre is sponsored by Unilever PLC – the multinational company with many brands in foods and … Continue reading →

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Top-down or bottom-up ontologies?

Posted on June 24, 2007 by pm286

I am working out some of the ideas I want to talk about at Mathematical Knowledge Management 2007 – and in this post I explore how a knowledge framework might be constructed, and also how it can be represented in … Continue reading →

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Mathematical Knowledge Management 2007

Posted on June 24, 2007 by pm286

I have been invited to give a lecture at the Mathematical Knowledge Management 2007 meeting next week in Hagenberg, Austria. My talk is entitled Mathematics and scientific markup. I am both excited and apprehensive about this – what is a … Continue reading →

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The NIHghts who say 'no' – to chemoinformatics

Posted on June 23, 2007 by pm286

A recent post from The Sceptical Chymist: The NIHghts who say ‘no [1] The NIHghts who say ‘no’ Apologies to our international readers for the U.S.-centric post, but the National Institutes of Health announced earlier today that PAR-07-353, a grant … Continue reading →

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Data and Institutional Repositories

Posted on June 23, 2007 by pm286

One of the themes of ETD2007 was a strong emphasis on IR’s. Not surprising since they are topical and a natural place to put theses and dissertations. Almost everyone there – many from the Library and Information Services (LIS) community … Continue reading →

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CML on ICE – towards Open chemical/scientific authoring

Posted on June 23, 2007 by pm286

Because WWMM had outages my blogging is behind and I’d written a post on Peter Sefton’s ICE. Peter and I met at ETD2007 and immediately clicked. But WWMM went to sleep and I haven’t reposted. Peter has beaten me to … Continue reading →

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Author Choice in Chemistry at ACS – and elsewhere?

Posted on June 23, 2007 by pm286

A number of closed access journals/publishers have brought out “Author Choice” and similar approaches where authors pay publishers for “open access”. The details probably varies from publisher to publisher and I have been idly looking for examples in chemistry. It … Continue reading →

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The power of the scientific eThesis

Posted on June 15, 2007 by pm286

This is the summary of a presentation I am giving tomorrow at ETD2007 (run by Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations. I’m blogging this as the simplest way of (a) reminding me what I am going to say and … Continue reading →

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"open access" – some central questions

Posted on June 12, 2007 by pm286

I am grateful for the recent correspondence from Peter Suber and Stevan Harnad as it helps me get my thoughts in order for ETD2007. In response to Stevan: Open Access: What Comes With the Territory, Peter has analysed the central … Continue reading →

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Stevan Harnad on "open access"

Posted on June 12, 2007 by pm286

Stevan Harnad – a tireless evangelist of OA – has replied to my points. He has been consistent in arguing the logic below and I agree with the logic. The problem is that few people believe that this allows us … Continue reading →

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