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Data-driven science
I’ll be writing more about this later. Catalysed by an email from Douglas Kell at Manchester – we share the same problem – that data-driven science is a second-class activity. He picked up paper from http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~repwkshop/papers.html on data-driven science and … Continue reading
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Blog upgraded to receive dogfood
In preparation for collaborating with Peter Sefton we’ve[*] upgraded to WordPress 2.3 and installed ICE and Open Office. Jim has a UNIX client and I have a Windows. So this gives PeterS a good chance of having lots of exciting … Continue reading
Win 10 million USD (honest)
I haven’t seen this on the chemical blogosphere so if there are any chemists out there working with silver (Ag) here’s your chance: $10 million if you can find a better silver extraction method you have until January 21, 2008 … Continue reading
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McGonagall's markup
Sometimes we, or our robots, have to read raw HTML. HTML is a W3C Recommendation which approximates to the word “Standard”. Almost all of the HTML on the web isn’t. Originally it was authored by humans who couldn’t be relied … Continue reading
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Using Connotea as a community annotator for CrystalEye
Quite by chance I met up in the bar yesterday evening with Ian Mulvany (see Nature Network entry) from Nature Publishing Group. Our group had been talking about how we could annotate structures in CrystalEye, the crystallographic knowledgebase that Nick … Continue reading
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Breaking the ICE
Peter Sefton at University of Southern Queensland (USQ) has developed a well-thought-out and engineered system for authoring semantic documents. We talked earlier this year at ETD2007 (blogged). Now he writes about how to get it adopted: Breaking the ICE Over … Continue reading
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Unlock the PDFs
Heather Morrison shows how “locked” PDFs disadvantage the print disabled. Via Peter Suber: Heather Morrison, Unlock the PDFs, for the print disabled (and open access, too), a posting to SOAF and other lists, November 6, 2007. Excerpt: For the print … Continue reading
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Open Notebook – reflections and conclusion
Jean-Claude and Bill are right to point out that in the last week it has been inappropriate to use the term “Open Notebook Science” and I shall no longer use it in conjunction with the NMR work that Nick, Henry, … Continue reading
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Open Notebook NMR – variance is both experimental and theoretical
When making claims in foo-metrics and foo-informatics it is essential to have access to the data and the algorithms used. That’s why, for example, Peter Corbett and Sciborg colleagues are so careful in constructing their corpus. In developing our Open … Continue reading
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Why Green Open Access does not support text- and data-mining
Stevan Harnad, Peter Suber and I have been discussing whether Green Open Access (author self-archiving in an Institutional Repository) is sufficient to allow indexing and mining. Stevan comments: Individual re-use capabilities: If a document’s full-text is freely accessible online (OA), … Continue reading
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