Category Archives: semanticWeb

I’m delighted to be part of the Open Knowledge Foundation’s new initiative on “Open Data in Science”. Here’s Jonathan Gray’s email: Hi all, We are pleased to announce the launch of a new Working Group on Open Data in Science. … Continue reading →

Many of you in the Library world will know Catherine and probably have seen her interview on CBS News where she talks about her colon cancer and the US health insurance system: For those who haven’t, here’s her page at … Continue reading →

We are discussing with Chemspider how some of the content in CrystalEye can be transferred to Chemspider. What Antony Williams wants is primarily the chemical identity of the substance, expressed as a connection table which can be ingested into CS, … Continue reading →

Peter Suber (again mysteriously unable to post comments) and Stevan Harnad clarify the weak/strongOA borderline. This is making it clearer to me. Accept that I completely misread or misunderstood the original statement. I’ll comment below. At present I am interested … Continue reading →

We’re looking to create an Open semantic resource for chemistry for a group of common chemicals – partly as a partner in the ORECHEM (Chemistry Repositories), project and partly because we need it for our own work in machine understanding … Continue reading →

The type of problem highlighted in my recent post is a very serious one and so rather than giving the answer I want to help you discover it for yourself. Hopefully then you will have a wow! or aha! or … Continue reading →

A few snippets from my 1.5 days at UK Serials Group meeting – a mixture of publishers, LIS and others. One scientist. I don’t think that many at the meeting really had much idea what scientists actually do on a … Continue reading →