Author Archives: pm286

WWMM is back

Posted on June 7, 2007 by pm286

Our server suffered physical damage due to a power problem and has been off air for several days. Many thanks to the Computer Officer team who have physically mended it. I have a lot that I would like to write … Continue reading →

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Podcast on Semantic Web, Open Access and Open Data

Posted on June 1, 2007 by pm286

Paul Miller of Talis interviewed me over the phone today and the result has been captured as a podcast. It’s rather longer than I suspect either of us expected (70 mins) – I have spent some time explaining the basics … Continue reading →

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Data validation in publications

Posted on May 31, 2007 by pm286

Tony Williams’ comment to my post (Data validation and protcol validation – May 31st, 2007) has several valuable themes which I expand on here and in later posts. Tony and I are in agreement here and working towards something that … Continue reading →

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Data validation and protcol validation

Posted on May 31, 2007 by pm286

This post replies to an ongoing debate about the quality of data and Open vs Closed data and systems. It’s specifically about NMR (spectroscopy) but my points are general. Since I have been publicly critical of some systems I must … Continue reading →

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Open Data in biomedical science

Posted on May 30, 2007 by pm286

Heather (Research Remix) has a most important post on data sharing – she has analysed the data deposition policies of some of the major journals/publishers. Note that this is orthogonal to Open Access – not all these publishers are OA, … Continue reading →

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Ola Spjuth of Bioclipse

Posted on May 30, 2007 by pm286

From time to time people get presented with Blue Obelisks and the latest recipient is Ola Spjuth. Presentations – and the preparations for them – are rarely simple – they have included obelisk falling off the table on night of … Continue reading →

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Ranking chemistry and blogosphere metrics

Posted on May 30, 2007 by pm286

I’ve been pointed to ChemRank – a system that allows you to comment on and rank the chemical literature. I hadn’t seen this before and haven’t looked in depth, so I am only commenting on the idea and technology. (As … Continue reading →

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The soul of the Blue Obelisk

Posted on May 30, 2007 by pm286

There has been a discussion on the Blue Obelisk mailing list about whether we should move the mailing list to Google to attract the less geeky community. I drafted a contribution to this discussion and then felt it would be … Continue reading →

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Remixing Open Data and the cost of not doing so

Posted on May 27, 2007 by pm286

Welcome to a new blog (Research Remix)  from Heather Piwowar, currently doing her PhD in Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh. Heather is encountering first-hand the difficulty of doing her research because of the problem of getting access to … Continue reading →

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Bioclipse – Rich Client

Posted on May 25, 2007 by pm286

I’m at the Bioclipse workshop in Uppsala – excellently run by Ola Spjuth and colleagues. Rich clients – where the client has significant functionality beyond the basic browser – are critical for the interchange of scientific information. A typical example … Continue reading →

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