Category Archives: data

towards repeatability: push to re-run

Posted on August 9, 2007 by pm286

Although repeatability has always been a key part of formal scientific procedure we are now finding several new tools to help us. In principle we can capture every moment of the scientific process and “replay” it for others. Here is … Continue reading →

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Repositories: give us the tools

Posted on August 9, 2007 by pm286

From Peter Sefton’s blog: Why not HTML for online journals? People need the right tools. 00:43 09/08/2007, Sefton I have already mentioned this blog post lamenting the use of PDF instead of HTML in an online journal: In short, choosing … Continue reading →

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Wiley: your supporting information for chemistry isn't satisfactory

Posted on August 9, 2007 by pm286

It has become increasingly common for journals to offer – or require – “supporting information” (“supplemental data”, etc.) as an adjunct to the “full-text” article. This is now an essential part of much publications and this post shows how when … Continue reading →

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caltech: (talk on) the power of the scientific e-thesis

Posted on August 7, 2007 by pm286

Many thanks to Eric Van de Velde and colleagues for inviting me to Caltech to give a talk on the scientific e-thesis. Besides being excited about going to Caltech, I am delighted that they wished to record the presentation. (I … Continue reading →

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scifoo: data-driven science and storage

Posted on August 7, 2007 by pm286

I managed to get out to a few sessions at scifoo not concerned with my immediate concerns, of which two were on the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Google’s abiility and willingness to manage scientific data. They come together because … Continue reading →

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Request for clarification of copyright and re-use on CIFs from Elsevier/CCDC

Posted on July 30, 2007 by pm286

==== copy of letter to CCDC requesting clarification on copyright ==== To:data_request@ccdc.cam.ac.uk Greetings (Sorry to use a generic address but I am not sure who is the person to contact about permissions). We have a systematic program of carrying out … Continue reading →

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Republican vision of Open Source Research

Posted on July 29, 2007 by pm286

from Peter Suber’s blog: Tommy Thompson wants open source research Tommy Thompson, Republican presidential candidate and former Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, has announced his science platform: double the budget of the NIH (to $58 billion/year), … Continue reading →

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cyberscience: extracting crystallography from Elsevier's Tetrahedron via CCDC

Posted on July 29, 2007 by pm286

Regular readers will know of our Crystaleye repository where Nick Day’s robots have – quite legally – extracted ca 100,000 crystal structures from the Open AND closed literature. However it is not yet comprehensive as some publishers do not expose … Continue reading →

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"open access" to data – let's be precise

Posted on July 27, 2007 by pm286

In the last post (Reply from softCon on Spectra and “open access”) I report how ICSU (CODATA) use the phrase “open access”: Here are some quotations from the ICSU report: “…Full and open access” to data implies equitable, non-discriminatory access … Continue reading →

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Reply from softCon on Spectra and "open access"

Posted on July 27, 2007 by pm286

In recent posts Request for CODATA definition of Open Access– and http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=445 I was concerned about the use of “open access” to describe a pay-to-access database. I had a very useful and constructive reply from softCon about the “open access” database … Continue reading →

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