Author Archives: pm286

We are now  describing our workflow from extracting facts from the scientific literature on http://contentmine.org/blog . Yesterday Ross Mounce and I hacked through what was necessary to extract species from PLoSone. Here’s the workflow we came up with: Ross has … Continue reading →

  At contentmine.org we have been working hard to create a platform for extracting facts from the literature. It’s been great to create a team – CottageLabs (CL) and I have worked together for over 5 years and they know … Continue reading →

I’ve just spent 3 hectic days at Wikimania (the world gathering of world Wikimedians) and am so overwhelmed I’m spending today getting my thoughts in order.  Wikimedia is the generic organization for Wikipedia , Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and lots else. … Continue reading →

and http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/aug/08/who-ebola-outbreak-international-public-health-emergency  

I have the huge opportunity to present a vision of the future of science at @WikimaniaLondon  (Friday 2014-08-08:1730) . I am deeply flattered. I am also deeply flattered that the Wikipedians have created a page about me (which means I … Continue reading →

I haven’t blogged for over a month because I have been busier than I have ever been in my life. This is because the opportunities and the challenges of the Digital Century appear daily. It’s also because our ContentMine (http://contentmine.org) … Continue reading →

Tomorrow we have the Memorial Symposium for Jean-Clause Bradley in Cambridge: http://inmemoriamjcb.wikispaces.com/Jean-Claude+Bradley+Memorial+Symposium We have 13 speakers and other items related to JCB. The lecture theatre is nearly full (ca 48 people) ** We have arranged live streaming and recording so … Continue reading →

Last week I showed how we can automatically extract data from images. The example was a phylogenetic tree, and although lots of people think these are wonderful, even more will have switched off. So now I’m going to show how … Continue reading →

Over 10 years ago, when peer-to-peer was an exciting and (through Napster) a liberating idea, I proposed the World Wide Molecular Matrix (Cambridge), (wikipedia) as a new approach to managing scientific information. It was bottom-up, semantic, and allowed scientists to … Continue reading →

Today was the Tour de France; third day – Cambridge to London. A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Should I “take the morning off” to watch the race – or should I continue to hack code for freedom. After all we are in … Continue reading →