Author Archives: pm286

Sued for 10 Data Points

Posted on May 24, 2007 by pm286

Peter Suber has blogged about an important discussion on Wiley’s action is threatening legal action for reproducing a data graph from a publication. (there’s quite a bit to read if you follow the links but it’s worth it.) Also read … Continue reading →

Posted in data, open issues | 4 Comments

Linked Open Data

Posted on May 23, 2007 by pm286

This is one of the key issues for me at present:. Paul Miller (Talis) – who with his colleagues is constantly working towards a community license – writes (Linked Data the real Semantic Web ?): It has been interesting to … Continue reading →

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Bioclipse and the Information Revolution

Posted on May 20, 2007 by pm286

I have been honoured to have been asked to talk at the 07.05.23 Embrace Workshop on Bioclipse 2007 (EWB 07), BMC, Uppsala … meeting next week in Sweden. This post explains why Bioclipse is so important (it goes beyond bio/chem) … Continue reading →

Posted in blueobelisk, open issues, programming for scientists, XML | 2 Comments

Audible Open Data at WWW2007

Posted on May 19, 2007 by pm286

Danny Ayers who ran the developers track at WWW2007 recorded our Open Data session. Some presentations had slides and especially Steve Coast and I used animated/interactive material but I think the ideas come across. The Q&A had a lot of … Continue reading →

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More on triple stores – molecules next

Posted on May 19, 2007 by pm286

Since I think triple stores will change the way we think about information the current posts are somewhat of a stream of consciousness. (Rather tedious as it is almost impossible to put nicely formatted TT stuff into WordPress). We shall … Continue reading →

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dbpedia, RDF and SPARQL – for chemistry

Posted on May 19, 2007 by pm286

A comment on the last post Richard Cyganiak Says: May 19th, 2007 at 7:55 pm e Thanks for this nice introduction Peter. Note that the DBpedia URIs also work in a web browser, so you can go to http://dbpedia.org/resource/Uppsala and … Continue reading →

Posted in chemistry, semanticWeb | 3 Comments

SPARQL, SNORQL triple store – an introduction

Posted on May 19, 2007 by pm286

I am overwhelmed by the potential power of RDF and the semantic web and am sure that this is a large part of our information-based future. I have been playing with dbpedia and its SPARQL interfaces and here I introduce … Continue reading →

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Open Publishing – SPARC and Science Commons

Posted on May 17, 2007 by pm286

Peter Suber highlighted the joint initiative of SPARC and Science Commons (a “spin-off” of Creative Commons and W3C) in creating an addendum that allows authors to state what THEY would like done with their publications. The Scholar’s Copyright Addendum Engine … Continue reading →

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Avoiding Mass Extinction with OpenData

Posted on May 17, 2007 by pm286

A very impressive talk yesterday by Gavin Starks about the challenge of Climate Change. If you ever have the chance to hear or meet him, do. The talk has been blogged by the indefatigable Talis/Nodalities (Paull Miller and (in this … Continue reading →

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XMLTech -XMLRDF

Posted on May 15, 2007 by pm286

Alf Eaton and Gavin Bell (Nature) out together a lively BOF this evening on scientific publishing. They presented many of the key components – XML, persistent identifiers, ontologies, etc. Nice to see credit being given to PLoS for its pioneering … Continue reading →

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