Category Archives: semanticWeb

semantic web

Naming chemical compounds

Posted on October 2, 2007 by pm286

At the risk of boring readers who already understand the issue of names, metadata, recursive annotations and versions, let me do this discussion to death. I reiterate. A name by itself is neither right of wrong. It is possible that … Continue reading →

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Semantic web : the scream!

Posted on September 24, 2007 by pm286

I have just blogged Paul Miller’s Talis Community Licence and realised that – I think – I used to get a feed from his/Talis blog. So I put it in the Feedreader and found a whole lot of posts on … Continue reading →

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How blogging makes contacts and seeds communities

Posted on September 23, 2007 by pm286

I mailed yesterday about how blogging links to other blogs and generates new contacts. Here is a direct example: Jakob Says: You wrote: “More, because I have added this link to my blog, Jakoblog will get notified.” This is true … Continue reading →

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Peter Murray-Rust: Prospect and Nessie and OSCAR

Posted on September 17, 2007 by pm286

I am delighted to congratulate the Royal Society of Chemistry on their award for Project Prospect. Prospect is one of the first examples of true semantic publishing. We’re pleased to have been closely involved – 5 years ago David James … Continue reading →

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change because old scientists die

Posted on September 17, 2007 by pm286

Tobias Kind has asked (Comment to Nature Protocols: How much can we re-use?) why shouldn’t require chemists to submit data… Hi Peter, making chemistry data machine-readable is not the business of the publisher! It’s the business of the chemists themselves … Continue reading →

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DBPedia2: major opportunity for semantic web (including chemistry)

Posted on September 11, 2007 by pm286

I have blogged about the exciting potential of DBPedia before ( dbchem” href=”http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs//?p=316″>dbpedia – structured information from Wikipedia => dbchem). It is a semistructured RDF triple collection created automatically from Wikipedia. The really exciting thing is that huge numbers of … Continue reading →

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cyberscience: Labels and licences

Posted on July 24, 2007 by pm286

Bill Hooker has supported my suggestion of labels (We must have licences for publications) for describing the re-usability of publications. I will use “labels” rather than “licences” at present as it allows us to describe practice rather than mandate it … Continue reading →

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Mathematical Knowledge Management 2007

Posted on June 24, 2007 by pm286

I have been invited to give a lecture at the Mathematical Knowledge Management 2007 meeting next week in Hagenberg, Austria. My talk is entitled Mathematics and scientific markup. I am both excited and apprehensive about this – what is a … Continue reading →

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Podcast on Semantic Web, Open Access and Open Data

Posted on June 1, 2007 by pm286

Paul Miller of Talis interviewed me over the phone today and the result has been captured as a podcast. It’s rather longer than I suspect either of us expected (70 mins) – I have spent some time explaining the basics … Continue reading →

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Linked Open Data

Posted on May 23, 2007 by pm286

This is one of the key issues for me at present:. Paul Miller (Talis) – who with his colleagues is constantly working towards a community license – writes (Linked Data the real Semantic Web ?): It has been interesting to … Continue reading →

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