Category Archives: semanticWeb

semantic web

Why authoring HTML is still a mess

Posted on December 31, 2007 by pm286

When HTML was launched it us was simple. And it worked if you got it nearly right. (that was in 1993). Now there are so many additions, scripts and so forth that it becomes impossible to re-use parts of other … Continue reading →

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Exploring RDF and CML

Posted on December 30, 2007 by pm286

I’ve taken the chance pf a few days without commitments to investigate how we shall be using RDF. We’ve got several projects where we are starting to use it – CrystalEye – WWMM, eChemistry, SPECTRa : JISC and other ORE-based … Continue reading →

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Mystery Picture

Posted on December 20, 2007 by pm286

Here is a photograph (untouched, not CGI). When I saw it I went wow! (I knew what it was). I’d be interested to know if anyone (a) KNOWS what it is of (b) can estimate the scale (c) has seen … 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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Liz Lyon on Open Science

Posted on November 18, 2007 by pm286

We’ve worked closelyn with Liz Lyon for some time – an advisory role on SPECTRa and now we are partners in the eCrystals Program. She’s posted an impressive set of slides on hundreds of things happening in the data- and … Continue reading →

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Feature Extraction and Feature authoring

Posted on November 2, 2007 by pm286

An interesting review: Deepak Singh: The value of feature extraction: Let’s start with a quote from a talk on Ambient Findability For every search on cancer.gov, there are over 100 cancer-related searches on public search engines. Of these searches, 70% … Continue reading →

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ATOMic crystals

Posted on October 30, 2007 by pm286

How do we disseminate our CrystalEye data? If we use one large file, even zipped, it will run into gigabytes. Also it can’t easily be updated.  Jim Downing has started to set up AtomPP feeds for disseminating  it. Geoff Hutchison … 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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Paul Miller on the Web of Data

Posted on October 9, 2007 by pm286

Paul visited us today (Paul Miller speaking at UCC) and gave a beautiful presentation on the Web of Data. Literally beautiful. He had worked very hard on preparing it and it flowed imperceptibly from simple beginnings to a current conclusion. … Continue reading →

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Paul Miller speaking at UCC

Posted on October 9, 2007 by pm286

I should have blogged this earlier but was too wrapped up in my talk for yesterday. Still if anyone in the Cambridge area is reading this, Paul Miller of Talis is visiting us today and giving a talk in the … Continue reading →

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