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[I have been relatively quiet recently because I am in Lithuania working flat out to liberate Crystallographic Data and make it Open – expect several posts in the near future.] Seven years ago I approached SPARC to suggest that together … Continue reading →

Scholarly publishing is one of the least enlightened industries of this century. Retail, travel, entertainment, medicine, democracy, and much more have all either been completely changed or show the potential. Yet scholarly publishing idolises the print image (PDF) coupled to … Continue reading →

#animalgarden wish everyone a very happy time interval 2014-01-01T00:00:00.000Z/2014-12-31T23:59:59.999Z #animalgarden have made a number of contributions to Open-ness including: A 5-minute movie describing the ContentMine: http://vimeo.com/78353557 How to start writing a crawler: /pmr/2013/12/14/content-mining-animalgarden-write-a-crawler/ The November 25 declaration of the “The … Continue reading →

Marc Joffe of http://www.publicsectorcredit.org/ has an ambition – to make Open vast amounts of spending data in California. The Sunlight Foundation has funded Marc (http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/07/05/opengov-voices-local-government-financial-transparency-scalling-it-up/ ) – the problem is that the data is present in PDFs. So Marc mailed … Continue reading →

Jenny Molloy and Michelle Brooks have done a wonderful job in driving forward Open Science within the OKFN. Science is a huge topic and there are many areas where the Open philosophy and tools are now critical. Here’s Jenny’s end-of-year … Continue reading →

  Chuff: Hello Gulliver! I’m the OKFN OKAPI. Gulliver: Hello! I’m Gulliver, the BMC turtle. C: I know – you’ve got a blog http://gulliverturtle.wordpress.com/ where you tell the world about #openaccess. What’s #ami2 doing? G: She’s crawling BioMedCentral content. C: … Continue reading →

Yesterday International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) issued a welcome statement on TDM: http://www.ifla.org/publications/ifla-statement-on-text-and-data-mining-2013. Snippets: IFLA maintains that legal certainty for text and data mining (TDM) can only be achieved by (statutory) exceptions. As an organization committed to … Continue reading →

A lot has happened in the last month and it’s kept me so busy that I haven’t blogged as much as I would have liked. The simple message is that we are starting to mine the scholarly literature on global … Continue reading →

I got a request today offering help for CM. Great! CM isn’t a single activity –ideally it’s a community of collaborating people and organizations combining resources. The first thing you can do is join, and post to, https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-contentmining. Here’s what … Continue reading →

Larry Lessig has mailed today to remember Aaron Swartz and to join a many-day walk through New Hampshire. Is anything planned in UK/Europe? Seven years ago this January, Aaron Swartz visited me in Berlin to convince me to give up … Continue reading →