Category Archives: data

Copyfraud

Posted on September 8, 2007 by pm286

I have just discovered (through Klaus Graf and Peter Suber) the word that I need to describe what Wiley, eMolecules and Ingenta are doing: COPYFRAUD Read the excellent paper Falsely claiming copyright to a work in the public-domainJason Mazzone, Copyfraud, … Continue reading →

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Wiley and eMolecules: unacceptable; an explanation would be welcome

Posted on September 8, 2007 by pm286

Some readers may have been surprised why I got agitated ( Wiley and eMolecules: Unacceptable) from a spam letter from eMolecules – after all we get umpteen SPAM a day, we had probably swapped emails and had even talked about … Continue reading →

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CrystalEye: a crystallographic knowledge base looking for collaborators

Posted on September 4, 2007 by pm286

Egon Willighagen asks about collaboratin on Nick Day’s CrystalEye knowledgebase.  I reproduce his post – note that CrystalEye should be able to provide many examples to increase the size of data sets – and then discuss some of the advantages … Continue reading →

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Gerry Toomey, Richard Jefferson and open science

Posted on August 15, 2007 by pm286

I was very pleased to meet Richard Jefferson of CAMBIA at scifoo. I was reminded of our conversation by a quote in a recent item on Peter Suber’s blog (below), and thence tempted into reading the whole article which is … Continue reading →

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Dave Martinsen reviews ACS and Greasemonkey

Posted on August 15, 2007 by pm286

Noel O’Boyle has highlighted a review by Dave Martinsen of the American Chemical Society. Dave has been very supportive of the new technologies and ideas that are emerging and has run sessions at the ACS meetings highlighting them. Here he … Continue reading →

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open data: centralised or decentralized?

Posted on August 13, 2007 by pm286

Deepak Singh highlights one of the emerging approaches to global data, Freebase. Recall that at scifoo we also heard about Google’s offer to host scientific data: Freebase at Scifoo Published 15 hours, 44 minutes ago in Software & Internet, Semantic … Continue reading →

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save our spectra

Posted on August 12, 2007 by pm286

Data in chemistry publications is very standardized which makes it possible (not easy) to think about robotic extraction of information. I’ve blogged earlier about the use of text, but what about graphics? This post shows the potential, but also the … Continue reading →

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open data: public domain?

Posted on August 11, 2007 by pm286

David Wiley has a useful post on the “public domain”. I had always assumed that the public domain was fairly simple – certain types of content were de facto PD, authors could easily donate their work to the PD, and … Continue reading →

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open data: concepts from David Wiley

Posted on August 11, 2007 by pm286

David Wiley has commented very clearly on the issues involved in licensing content (or putting it in the public domain). This is the first of two posts, with my comments interjected. By background, David seems to be writing in an … Continue reading →

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open data: are licenses needed?

Posted on August 11, 2007 by pm286

Now that I’m back to regular rhythms and the intensity of scifoo has subsided I’m back to the current main obsession of this blog: access to data and its re-use. It’s catalysed by a post from Peter Suber commenting on … Continue reading →

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