Category Archives: data

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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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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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 →

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Data validation and Protocol validation

Posted on May 14, 2007 by pm286

In response to a lively blog interchange on quality and validation of data Antony Williams has produced a useful comment (into which I insert annotations): Thanks for the feedback on the definitions. I have connected with our collaborators at ACD/Labs, … Continue reading →

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Open Data WWW 2007

Posted on May 9, 2007 by pm286

I am on a panel at WWW 2007 and have a 10-minute slot. Since our wireless in the hotel is pretty good I thought I would continue the experiment I made earlier by blogging parts of it. It also means … Continue reading →

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Open Data At WWW 2007

Posted on May 6, 2007 by pm286

polemic level AMBER I am in Canada – can get internet but have some difficulty in sending email. This post is quite a good way of letting everyone in the world know where I am… I shall be talking on … Continue reading →

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experiment and theory – the liberation of data and source

Posted on May 3, 2007 by pm286

Antony Williams on the ChemSpider blog has paid tribute to NMRShiftDB. I have copied this in full and comment later on how theory and experiment test each other: Open Source Data, Testing Quality and Returning Value – Interactions with NMRSHIFTDB … Continue reading →

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Open Data: more on ALPSP and STM statement

Posted on December 14, 2006 by pm286

The next few posts will contain a substantial amount of comment (hopefully from you, dear readers and commentators) on the June 2006 ALPSP/STM statement on data in scholarly publications. I’m kicking myself for missing it. I plead that I have … Continue reading →

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Open Data : help from ALPSP and STM

Posted on December 13, 2006 by pm286

I’m over the moon! Richard (from the Royal Society of Chemistry) has commented on my post: about the ownership and licensing of data Richard Says: December 13th, 2006 at 3:27 pm eAnd of course, publishers (well, ALPSP and STM members) … Continue reading →

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