Author Archives: pm286

Is "peer-review" holding back innovation?

Posted on October 20, 2006 by pm286

As part of my talk at Open Scholarship I’m going to show two pieces of scholarly work of which I am proud, which I believe fit all the criteria of publication and for which I get no formal credit. (I … Continue reading →

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Open Scholarship 2006 – 2

Posted on October 20, 2006 by pm286

My colleague and DSpace superguru Jim Downing has also blogged parts of the meeting: These are some impressions of the Open Scholarship meeting so far… Some are notes, so it may be a bit jerky in places. I shan’t blog … Continue reading →

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Open Scholarship 2006 – 1

Posted on October 20, 2006 by pm286

I’m at the University of Glasgow – in the splendid castellated Hunter Halls – for the European meeting on Open Scholarship. There are over 200 delegates – a mixture of librarians, information technologists, research funders, etc. Hardly any publishers – … Continue reading →

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What are the advantages of XML and why should I care? (text)

Posted on October 17, 2006 by pm286

This is an attempt to explain why XML is important in a scientific context. I shall try to assemble as many reasons as possible, but there are also many other tutorials and overviews. I believe that XML is a fundamental … Continue reading →

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What are the advantages of XML and why should I care? (0)

Posted on October 17, 2006 by pm286

As I have blogged before we are looking at ways of improving the information infrastructure in our Centre. We’re all very consicous of how little we know – I know I know very little and I’m quite prepared to admit … Continue reading →

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Blogging and the chemical semantic web

Posted on October 15, 2006 by pm286

This post will explain how chemically-aware blogs can be indexed and searched. If you’re not a chemist, but still interested in the semantic web, this may be interesting. I revealed in recent posts that molecules in blogs can be indexed … Continue reading →

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The mystery unfolded – the molecules have been (and can be) found

Posted on October 14, 2006 by pm286

I think this was delayed by WordPress.) Jean-Claude and his students cracked a bit of it. Egon has explained it fully and provided the motivation… Egon Says: October 14th, 2006 at 7:55 pm eI have not been able to track … Continue reading →

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Final Mystery Molecules

Posted on October 14, 2006 by pm286

Four more mystery molecules – this will be the last lot. Jean-Clause Bradley has guessed some, if not all, of my purpose. (Forget the first mystery molecules – WordPress corrupted the steganography).. But the second lot of molecules and this … Continue reading →

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How do I keep up with the Literature?

Posted on October 14, 2006 by pm286

Here’s a cry from the heart (Stephen Koch Department of Chemistry SUNY Stony Brook) on the CHMINF-L list (for chemical informatics and libraries). I would like to bring up an issue which has not generated a lot of discussion on … Continue reading →

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The Ridge of Refactoring

Posted on October 13, 2006 by pm286

The Island of Skye has the most dramatic mountains in the UK, and Sgurr Nan Gillean is one of the most visible and well known. For me the Pinnacle Ridge (left) [1] epitomises the reality of computing. There is an … Continue reading →

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