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On Saturday we are having an economics hackathon in London. I’d love to be there but unfortunately am going to the Eur Sem Web Conf in Montpelier. It’s run by Velichka and colleagues – here’s the sort of reason why … Continue reading →

The Scholarly Revolution #scholrev is forging ahead. Alexander Garcia Castro is running a fantastic hackathon n Montpelier immediately after the SePublica Polemics workshop.   Join us in Montpellier for a one-day event to hack on scholarly PDFs! Do you have … Continue reading →

I have been very honoured to be invited to lead off a workshop session at the European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC). This workshop is a radical initiative to change the way we think about information. Here’s the description: http://sepublica.mywikipaper.org/drupal/ There … Continue reading →

We are doing well at reconstructing semantic material from PDFs (#AMI2) but the challenges we are thrown are considerable. Here’s today’s amusement: #AMI2 can reconstruct most of this perfectly, but she doesn’t know what to do with a hyphenated-subscript. Nor … Continue reading →

From the start of this month all RCUK-funded researchers will have to publish “Open Access”. Exactly what this means has been the subject of a messy set of polemics. But on the assumption that authors wish to publish under a … Continue reading →

A quick update. I’ve been spending most of my time on #ami2 which is now at raw alpha (see below). Other items of note include: Mendeley is now owned by Elsevier. I shall blog this. If you care about Open … Continue reading →

On Thursday (2013-04-11) I was invited by Fiona McNeill to give a 5-minute talk on ontologies at Edinburgh (http://dream.inf.ed.ac.uk/events/ukont-13/2013_workshop_program.html ). The workshop aims included: Amongst other areas of interest, there will be a particular focus on creating and using open … Continue reading →

I’m demoing after lunch to the 2nd UK Ontology Network Workshop in Edinburgh and it’s billed as AMI2 (our content-mining software for #scholpub and related documents). Why content-mining at an ontology meeting? Because many ontologies are created “bottom-up” from the … Continue reading →

IF YOU HAVE ANY INTEREST IN OPENACCESS spend 15 Minutes on http://vimeo.com/63123518 “Ed Walters – Who Owns The Law?” It’s worth the time.   In a chillingly precise, researched piece Ed shows how US states have handed over the ownership … Continue reading →

  Erithacus rubecula (Wikimedia Commons) “the Robin”   #ami2 can now read the text of scientific articles as HTML (she has a little trouble with bold letters and strange fonts but we’ll teach her how to manage). Here is how … Continue reading →