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Can I data- and Text-mine Pubmed Central?

Posted on April 5, 2008 by pm286

Until last week I had assumed that the NIH policy on access to publicly funded research grants full Open Access rights to anyone in the world. The works will be deposited in Pubmed Central (PubMed Central site). Pubmed Central has … Continue reading →

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update and OR08 postscript

Posted on April 5, 2008 by pm286

I’m behind at the moment as I was grounded for a whole day in Amsterdam Airport. There is too much to blog about so this is an interim. In no particular order: still need to finalise thoughts from Dagstuhl on … Continue reading →

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OR08 "Repositories and Scientific Data" – the challenge of complexity

Posted on April 1, 2008 by pm286

I’m at OR08 – normally I would try to blog the meeting but (a) I am recovering from my preentation and (b) I’m off to NL to defend Egon Willighagen’s thesis. So these posts will be bitty… I was honoured … Continue reading →

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Structured Experiments and OR08

Posted on March 26, 2008 by pm286

xI’m gathering data for my presentation at OR08. Having appealed to the readership of this blog and found zero 🙁 I’m now looking at other blogs. A very valuable post from Cameron Neylon … The structured experiment From Neil [Saunder] … Continue reading →

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Why the triple needs to be a quint

Posted on March 26, 2008 by pm286

From Cameron Neylon: Semantics in the real world? Part I – Why the triple needs to be a quint (or a sext, or…) … This definitely comes with a health warning as it goes way beyond what I know much … Continue reading →

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The high cost of the lack of open data

Posted on March 26, 2008 by pm286

From Peter Suber’s blog:   The high cost of the lack of open data 14:43 25/03/2008, Peter Suber, Open Access News The Value of Spatial Information, a report by ACIL Tasman prepared for Australia’s Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information … Continue reading →

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Text Mining and Ontologies

Posted on March 25, 2008 by pm286

A brief update. I’m privileged to have been invited to a meeting at Dagstuhl in Germany. It’s on Text Mining and Ontologies (I expect that we shall all post abstracts over the next few days). It’s a heavyish program and … Continue reading →

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Update on molecular repositories

Posted on March 21, 2008 by pm286

Catalysed by a recent comment on a 2007-12 post (Exploring RDF and CML) : Tim Berners-Lee Says: March 21st, 2008 at 1:09 am ePeter,Sounds exciting!Do you have any public RDF molecule data others could explore? URIs?Tim BL here’s an update … Continue reading →

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More COSTly work – DALTON and VAMP

Posted on March 20, 2008 by pm286

I am honoured to be a member of the COST D37 CCWF working group on interoperability in chemical computing (see Semantic Chemical Computing for the last meeting in Berlin). COST enables European collaboration by not only having group meetings but … Continue reading →

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Repositories and Scientific Data (for OR2008)

Posted on March 20, 2008 by pm286

I have been invited to give a keynote lecture at Open Repositories 2008 (see the programme – about 25% down) and have chosen the title “Repositories for Scientific Data”. I’d value help from the repositarian blogosphere and elsewhere. My thesis … Continue reading →

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