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Here’s something that makes me feel pleased: Jean-Claude Bradley posts: NCI – UsefulChem Link   Earlier this week, I was contacted by Daniel Zaharevitz, Chief of the Information Technology Branch of the Developmental Therapeutics Program at the National Cancer Institute. … Continue reading →

From Peter Suber’s blog: Are OA repositories adequate for long-term preservation? Peter B. Hirtle, Copyright Keeps Open Archives and Digital Preservation Separate, RLG DigiNews, April 15, 2007.  Sadly, this is the last installment of the FAQ column in the final … Continue reading →

At the JISC/NSF meeting we had a very compelling example of why it is important to preserve data – both “scientific” and “humanities”. In 1994 Pang, You and Chu reported that ancient Chinese records could be used to calculate the … Continue reading →

Egon Willighagen posts: Clustering web search results The Dutch Intermediair magazine of this week had a letter sent by a reader introducing Clusty, a web search engine that clusters the results. It does a pretty good job for ‘egon willighagen‘: … Continue reading →

from Jean-Claude Bradley’s blog: UsefulChem and Skateboarding  : I just came across Karl Bailey’s blog, a chemistry teacher at Clark College who happens to teach virtually the same 3 organic chemistry classes that I do, in the same sequence following the … Continue reading →

There’s a splendid long-running program on the BBC – Desert Island Discs – which invites well known people (I hate the word celebrity and hope the concept disintegrates) to say what 8 records (discs) they would take to a desert … Continue reading →

On Monday I shall be taking at Colorado State University on the theme on “Digital preservation of the scientific record” – probably not the precise title. Digital preservation  (WP): “ refers to the management of digital information over time. Unlike … Continue reading →

I now realise I forget everything. Partly I suppose as brain cells disappear but largely due to the increasing flood and diversity of information, coupled with trying to sort out all the new ideas to the exclusion of actually observing … Continue reading →

I have spent a splendid day at NIST in Boulder invited by Michael Frenkel of TRC – a group which captures thermochemistry data from the literature and elsewhere on behalf of the US Department of Commerce. Here’s what they do … Continue reading →

First many thanks to Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport for free wireless. Much appreciated. Why can’t others be less mean? Today we set ourselves the challenge of how to plan the future of eScholarship. As the report will appear later it … Continue reading →