Category Archives: data

Open Data: help from Microsoft

Posted on December 12, 2006 by pm286

In reply to my last post (about the idea of adding Creative Commons licenses to scientific data)… Robin Rice Says: December 12th, 2006 at 7:04 pm eThere was an article in the October issue of Ariadne, Creative Commons Licences in … Continue reading →

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Open Data in psychology

Posted on December 7, 2006 by pm286

Peter Suber has posted (in Open Access News) A call for data sharing in psychology A fair share, Nature, December 7, 2006. An unsigned editorial. Excerpt: In psychology there is little tradition of making the data on which researchers base … Continue reading →

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Digital Curation 2006 in Glasgow – II

Posted on November 23, 2006 by pm286

I’ve just got back from the meeting and will try to summarize some key points. It was an excellent meeting and I never got round to blogging it real-time, so some of this will be fragmented. A lot of deja … Continue reading →

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Digital Curation 2006 in Glasgow

Posted on November 20, 2006 by pm286

I am going to the 2nd International Digital Curation Conference Digital Data Curation in Practice 21-22 November 2006 Hilton Glasgow Hotel, Glasgow which will address different aspects of the curation lifecycle including managing repositories, educating data scientists and understanding the … Continue reading →

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Organic Theses: Hamburger or Cow?

Posted on October 25, 2006 by pm286

This is my first attempt to see if a chemistry thesis in PDF can yield any useful machine-processable information. I thank Natasha Schumann from Frankfurt for the thesis (see below for credits). A typical chemical synthesis looks like this (screenshot … Continue reading →

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More Mystery Molecules

Posted on October 12, 2006 by pm286

Four more mystery molecules – not all from Pubchem. There is a stronger link bteween these than the last ones. The actual link requires some knowledge or some intuition into my thought processes. There is a purpose behind this! – … Continue reading →

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My Data or Our Data?

Posted on October 7, 2006 by pm286

In the Science Commons meeting Creating a Vision for Making Scientific Data Accessible Across Disciplines (see earlier post) Andrew Lawrence (Royal Observatory Edinburgh) illustrated the wide range of “ownership” of data even in a single discipline – physics – I … Continue reading →

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Open Knowledge Foundation

Posted on October 4, 2006 by pm286

After my post on the “tragedy of the lurkers” I thought I would raise it on the Open Knowledge Foundation Mailing list. The OKFN is the creation of Rufus Pollock – one of the advantages of living in Cambridge is … Continue reading →

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Science Commons and Pasteur's Quadrant

Posted on October 1, 2006 by pm286

I’m in Washington (in my favourite guest house in the US, Woodley Park Guest House (near the Zoo). It’s small and we all have breakfast together which gives a great atmosphere – so much better than the amorphous chain hotels. … Continue reading →

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Hamburger House of Horrors (1)

Posted on September 23, 2006 by pm286

This is an occasional series indebted to Hammer House of Horrors. You don’t need to be a chemist to understand the message. It’s sparked off by a comment from Totally Synthetic in this blog: A good deal of the reasoning … Continue reading →

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