Category Archives: open issues

Open Access and Open Data: licences, policies and other constraints

Posted on November 1, 2007 by pm286

I am trying to follow up the value and deficiencies of attaching a formal Open Data licence to a chunk of information. I’d written a good deal when I also saw Peter Suber’s blog: Whether or not to allow derivative … Continue reading →

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Open Access and Tropical Diseases

Posted on November 1, 2007 by pm286

This should be of interest to those interested in cyberscience and collaborative projects: WHO launches OA portal on tropical diseases Peter Suber, Open Access News “TropIKA is a new OA portal for research and information on tropical diseases.  (Thanks to … Continue reading →

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Motivation for Wikipedian contributors

Posted on November 1, 2007 by pm286

Why do we contribute to Wikipedia? Here’s a report of a survey. I add my additional motivations below: var imagebase=’file://C:/Program Files/FeedReader30/’; Tim O’Reilly (et al.): “What Motivates Wikipedians”: review of a survey 20:19 30/10/2007, Andy Oram, By Andy Oram A … Continue reading →

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We agree the structure is wrong!

Posted on October 30, 2007 by pm286

Nick Day’s procedure has generated the agreement – and disagreement – between observed and calculated NMR shifts. In my post Open Notebook NMR – the good and the ugly I highlighted one of the worst disagreements. I hesitated to say … Continue reading →

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Open NMR publication: possible ways forward

Posted on October 28, 2007 by pm286

Wolfgang Robien has posted some valuable comments and I think this gives us a positive way forward. I won’t comment line by line but refer you to the links. For background Wolfgang suggest that I have a religious take on … Continue reading →

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Anyone for crystal mashups?

Posted on October 27, 2007 by pm286

From the blogosphere through Bora: Liz Allen posted this on the Wall of the PLoS Facebook group yesterday: Here’s a fun Friday activity for all of you who like to track the stats of the inevitable rise and world domination … Continue reading →

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Open NMR: contributions from the community about outliers and assignments

Posted on October 27, 2007 by pm286

We are delighted at the practical and helpful  contributions from members of the community in helping to understand or correct outliers in the data set we are using. This is exactly what we hoped would happen at the start of … Continue reading →

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Open NMR calculations: intermediate conclusions (comments)

Posted on October 27, 2007 by pm286

I posted our intermediate conclusions on Nick Day’s computational NMR project, and have received two lengthy comments. I try to answer all comments, though as Peter Suber says in his interview sometimes comments lead to discourses of indefinite length. I … Continue reading →

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Open NMR calculations: intermediate conclusions

Posted on October 27, 2007 by pm286

Over the last 1-2 weeks Nick Day has been calculating NMR spectra and comparing the results with experiment. As there appears to be considerable interest we have agreed to make our conclusions Open on an almost daily basis. These lead … Continue reading →

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Open Notebook : more ideas

Posted on October 26, 2007 by pm286

Cameron Neylon has made a very useful comment on the Open Notebook philosophy which I can go along with: Cameron Neylon Says: October 26th, 2007 at 8:51 am eI’ve come in a bit late on this. I am with Jean-Claude … Continue reading →

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