Category Archives: open issues

Useful chemistry thesis in RDF

Posted on June 10, 2007 by pm286

I shall be using Alicia’s Open Science Thesis in Useful Chemistry as a technical demonstrator at ETD2007. I really want to show how a born digital thesis is a qualitative step forward. Completely new techniques can be used to structure, … Continue reading →

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"open access" is not good enough

Posted on June 10, 2007 by pm286

I have ranted at regular intervals about the use of “Open Access” or often “open access” as a term implying more than it delivers. My current concern is that although there are are tens of thousands of theses described as … Continue reading →

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OSCAR eats an Open thesis

Posted on June 9, 2007 by pm286

As regular readers will know we are applying text-mining to chemistry in Open theses. The problem is finding fully Open theses – so far we have got Alicia’s. Alicia has captured all here molecules in semantic form so text-mining isn’t … Continue reading →

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Alicia's Open Science Thesis

Posted on June 8, 2007 by pm286

Jean-Claude Bradley and coworkers has pioneered the concept of Open Science in chemistry – and it goes beyond that. On UsefulChem he writes: The fact that Alicia’s masters thesis “Synthesis of Diketopiperazines, Possible Malaria Enoyl Reducatase Inhibitors Using Open Source … Continue reading →

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JISC meeting on institutional repositories

Posted on June 8, 2007 by pm286

JISC has issued a summary on the conference I have just attended, About Digital repositories: Dealing with the digital deluge (Manchester, June 5-6, 2007). The summary deals with the plenary sessions – I might have commented if this blog had been … Continue reading →

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Electronic Theses (ETD2007)

Posted on June 8, 2007 by pm286

I am honoured to be asked to speak at the meeting next week in Uppsala on electronic theses (The Power of the Electronic Scientific Thesis). (This resonates with the JISC meeting on repositories (Digital repositories: Dealing with the digital deluge) … Continue reading →

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Podcast on Semantic Web, Open Access and Open Data

Posted on June 1, 2007 by pm286

Paul Miller of Talis interviewed me over the phone today and the result has been captured as a podcast. It’s rather longer than I suspect either of us expected (70 mins) – I have spent some time explaining the basics … Continue reading →

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Data validation in publications

Posted on May 31, 2007 by pm286

Tony Williams’ comment to my post (Data validation and protcol validation – May 31st, 2007) has several valuable themes which I expand on here and in later posts. Tony and I are in agreement here and working towards something that … Continue reading →

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Data validation and protcol validation

Posted on May 31, 2007 by pm286

This post replies to an ongoing debate about the quality of data and Open vs Closed data and systems. It’s specifically about NMR (spectroscopy) but my points are general. Since I have been publicly critical of some systems I must … Continue reading →

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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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