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We are currently processing the applications for our Panton Fellowships (sponsored by CCIA – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_%26_Communications_Industry_Association to whom many thanks). On Thursday Michelle Brook and I worked on this in C4CC – the OKFN’s London hangout:   Firstly many thanks to … Continue reading →

I/we had a great evening on Wednesday at the Open Science meeting run by Jenny Molloy and colleagues /pmr/2013/07/24/hack4ac-content-mining-and-open-science-in-oxford/ . I was leading the meeting on “content mining” and we had about 12 attendees including bioscientists, librarians, physicist, informatics, etc. … Continue reading →

One of the many serious problems in re-use of scientific data is that it often occurs in diagrams. Here’s a simple example taken from http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2180/11/174/ (BMC is an Open Access, CC-BY publisher so there’s no problem with anything in this … Continue reading →

Jenny Molloy has invited me to introduce a session in Oxford this evening (Monthly meetings held at Oxford e-Research Centre, 7 Keble Road, 19:00-20:30 – See more at: http://science.okfn.org/community/local-groups/oxford-open-science/#sthash.h1XPy1Pm.dpuf and http://science.okfn.org/community/local-groups/oxford-open-science/ ) on Content Mining. It will be very informal … Continue reading →

I was alerted today by a Wikipedia initiative (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Open_Access/Signalling_OA-ness ) by Daniel Mietchen (the primary editor of this page, but all WP pages belong to the world). I think it could have enormous impact in and for #openaccess. I shall … Continue reading →

I’m going to http://hack4ac.com/ (Hacking academia better together) tomorrow in London. From the site: Why? We have two goals Demonstrate the value of the CC-BY licence within academia. We are interested in supporting innovations around and on top of the … Continue reading →

I very occasionally blog personal matters – I’ve been offline (literally) for ca 2-3 weeks doing the Coast2Coast walk (192 miles) across the top of England (middle of Britain) and had a wonderful time for 16 full days. I was … Continue reading →

I have been off-net for some time but yesterday read Mike Taylor’s interview (poynder.blogspot.fi/2013/07/open-access-where-are-we-what-still.html ) with Richard Poynder on #openaccess. I agree with everything Mike says and it summarises (part of) my position almost exactly. It needs augmenting/annotating and I … Continue reading →

In previous posts I have shown how we can, in most cases, create a set of Unicode characters from a PDF. If the original authors (e.g. many Government documents) were standard-compliant this is almost trivial. For scholarly publications, where the … Continue reading →

One sentence summary (this link has all the documentation) Stakeholders representing the research sector, SMEs and open access publishers withdraw from Licences for Europe   I have formally been a member of EC-L4E-WG4 a working group of the European Commission … Continue reading →