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There is now an unstoppable interest and desire for content-mining. People want to know how, when where – what the problems are … all sorts of things. So Jenny Molloy and Katelyn Rogers (OKFN) have set up a mailing list. … Continue reading →

On Monday, December 16, 2013 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (GMT) Cambridge, United Kingdom http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/would-you-share-your-genome-sequence-tickets-9293969513 we are running our second Open Science meeting, in the Panton Arms. It’s led by Fiona Nielsen, founder of DNADigest, a non-profit startup : … Continue reading →

In Orwell’s 1984 the Ministry of Truth rewrote history and rewrote the present. Orwell showed that if you control the provision of information you can alter people’s thoughts and values. I think we are in great danger of scholarly publishing … Continue reading →

[The Scholarly Kitchen branded me as an “Ignorant Chemist” for criticising the technical standard of scholarly publishing. So read this with caution. BTW I feel slightly unhappy criticising an Open Access publisher but their technology is just as bad as … Continue reading →

Sleepless the bear and #ami2 the kangaroo meet Duck. S: Hello Duck. What are you doing? D: I’m helping #ami2 create her commandline parser. We’re going to use ducktyping. S: what’s a commandline? [*] Chuff: it’s one of the greatest … Continue reading →

Extracting tables from PDFs is not fun. But @TabulaPDF have made it possible. So we are going to learn how to extract tables at Jenny’s liberation-fest tomorrow. Here’s how: Got to http:// http://tabula.nerdpower.org/ (That’s right: NERD POWER. Nerds are good. … Continue reading →

CKAN was pioneered by the Open Knowledge Foundation as an Open Source tool to make government and related data more easily available. Governments love it, because it’s good and it’s free and it’s open. But why would we use it … Continue reading →

A massive day for #animalgarden. They’ve made a huge technical breakthrough. They can now store all the facts from the scientific literature. They’d been worrying about where to put the data they extracted, now that the STM publishers have blessed … Continue reading →

Would you? The next event in Cambridge Open Research is http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/would-you-share-your-genome-sequence-tickets-9293969513 We are going to be led by Fiona Nielsen who created DNADigest.org The genomic era is at our doorstep together with a lot of promises to personalized medicine – … Continue reading →

Yesterday was the Open Access Button ThunderClap: https://www.thunderclap.it/en/projects/5675-open-access-button-launch. I’m proud to have been one of the 434 and to have donated 2000+ followers. That means that yesterday they will all have got a tweet like the ones below: I’d love … Continue reading →