Category Archives: repositories

Chemistry Repositories

Posted on January 30, 2008 by pm286

Richard Van Noorden – writing in the RSC’s Chemistry World – has described the eChemistry repository project, Microsoft ventures into open access chemistry. This is very topical as Jim Downing, Jeremy Frey, Simon Coles and me are off to join … Continue reading →

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Posted on January 18, 2008 by pm286

From Peter Suber  More on the NIH OA mandate. Many points but I pick one:   Jocelyn Kaiser, Uncle Sam’s Biomedical Archive Wants Your Papers, Science Magazine, January 18, 2008 (accessible only to subscribers).  Excerpt: If you have a grant … Continue reading →

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What sort of repositories do we want?

Posted on December 18, 2007 by pm286

  I had the pleasure of meeting Greg Crane in Phoenix (see below) and last week at our brainstorm on how to fund digital curation. Greg is a remarkable person – a classicist who is compleetely at home creating computer … Continue reading →

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Scraping HTML

Posted on December 3, 2007 by pm286

As we have mentioned earlier, we are looking at how experimental data can be extracted from web sources. There is a rough scale of feasibility: RDF/XML > (legacy)CIF/JCAMP/SDF > HTML > PDF I have been looking at several sites which … Continue reading →

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Why is it so difficult to develop systems?

Posted on November 25, 2007 by pm286

Dorothea Salo (who runs Caveat Lector blog) is concerned (Permalink) that developers and users (an ugly word) don’t understand each other: (I posted a lengthy polemic to the DSpace-Tech mailing list in response to a gentle question about projected DSpace … Continue reading →

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Repository depositions – what scales? A simple idea

Posted on November 13, 2007 by pm286

One of the problems of repositories at present is that everything is new. And much of it is complex. And some changes rapidly. So here is a simple idea, motivated by Dorothea’s reply to a post of mine… Dorothea Salo … Continue reading →

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Can I reposit my article?

Posted on November 12, 2007 by pm286

Having re-explored the access to articles in the Journal Of Molecular Modeling I thought I would see if I am allowed to reposit my article in the Cambridge DSpace. So while the sun is shining here’s a small pictorial journey… … Continue reading →

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Using our own repository

Posted on November 11, 2007 by pm286

Elin Stangeland from our Institutional Repository will be talking to us (my Unilever Centre colleagues) tomorrow on how to use it. Jim and I have seen her draft talk, but I’ll keep it a surprise till afterwards. I still think … Continue reading →

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