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Advice on Open Notebook Technology

Posted on October 11, 2007 by pm286

Cameron Neylon (How best to do the open notebook thing…a nice specific example) has responded helpfully at great length on collaboratuive technology for our Open NMR Calculations… How best to do the open notebook thing…a nice specific example Peter Murray-Rust … Continue reading →

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Optimal Calendarship

Posted on October 11, 2007 by pm286

Alma Swan – well known to Open Access, JISC, RIN, etc communities – has posted: An open access calendar, and a calendar for open access, 2008 07:20 11/10/2007, Alma Swan, OptimalScholarship Creative Commons (CC) is celebrating its 5th birthday. Lawrence … Continue reading →

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Video of Paul Miller's talk at Unilever Centre

Posted on October 10, 2007 by pm286

Nico Adams has very kindly video’ed Paul Miller’s talk here and uploaded the result to Google. The original video is 15 GB so Nico has reduced it to 1 GB using iMovie. You can see the result on his blog: … Continue reading →

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My talk at Cambridge Network

Posted on October 9, 2007 by pm286

As I blogged I was invited to speak yesterday at Cambridge Network on “Cambridge ideas that change the world”. I’d originally given a title of “The Semantic Web” and thought I would say something about it that would entertain and … Continue reading →

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Downtime, generic apology, and trivia

Posted on October 6, 2007 by pm286

WWMM server is going down tomorrow morning (BST, ca 0900-1200 and UTC 0800-1100). So if you read manually or wish to comment, please don’t be surprised. When I started this blog I did not expect for it to take on … Continue reading →

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Open Access at Abbey Square

Posted on September 29, 2007 by pm286

Yesterday Jim Downing, Nick Day and I were the guests of Peter Strickland and Brian McMahon at the International Union of Crystallography in their gorgeous offices at Abbey Square, Chester UK . The IUCr is a member of ICSU – … Continue reading →

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CDK's Diazonamide and general thoughts on Openness

Posted on September 24, 2007 by pm286

Noel O’Blog has suggested that I should use Rajarshi Guha’s CDK service to layout the Diazonamide structure (see my post Finding chemical structures – InChIs et al., an amusement) baoilleach Says: September 24th, 2007 at 7:59 am eFor the record, … Continue reading →

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berlin5 : Alma Swan

Posted on September 21, 2007 by pm286

The final keynote by Alma Swan, familiar to all in the OA field. How are we doing? (Alma does a lot of surveys, interviews questionnaires, etc.) We are getting definition creep. There should be no qualification of OA – it’s … Continue reading →

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berlin5 : NIH and RCUK

Posted on September 21, 2007 by pm286

NIH has an open policy since 1994. Barbar Seto presented an example, GWAS which has to deal with human subjects. How to make data Open, while protecting identity? NIH serves as central data repository, including: Genome-wide acssociation study (GWAS), Genbank, … Continue reading →

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berlin5 : what did I say?

Posted on September 21, 2007 by pm286

I am very grateful to Berlin5 and the ESF (European Science Foundation) for inviting me to speak on “Open Data”. In giving talks like this I don’t prepare a linear set of Powerpoint (which I despise technically and philosophically) but … Continue reading →

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