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Open Data in Science

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

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"The JISC" and the "JISCWorld"

I got the a mail from “The JISC” today about grants – for those who don’t know The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) is funded by the UK HE and FE funding bodies2 to provide world-class leadership in the innovative … Continue reading

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Catherine Murray-Rust on CBS

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

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Wellcome gets tough on Open Access depositions

When one is active in an area (in this case Open Access) it’s often difficult to see how important it is from outside. So I was delighted to get an internal email to all staff making it clear that it … Continue reading

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Chemistry and CrystalEye – 1

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

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Suber-Harnad strongOA/weakOA borderline

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

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How can we create semantic chemical information?

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

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Why we need semantic authoring tools in chemistry – 3

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

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UKSG

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

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Could Wikia be used for chemistry?

This may be miles offbeam, but the following from Peter Suber’s blog caught my eye: Wikia launches Today Jimmy Wales launched an alpha version of Wikia, the search engine to be built openly and wiki-like by users.  From the about … Continue reading

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