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The Open Rights Group has unearthed an appalling proposed restriction on bloggers like me. In essence regulation of the press will be extended to bloggers. Unless I get a licence I will be closed down. (I know some people would … Continue reading →

Following our determination to create new ways of scholarship for the benefit of the world (/pmr/2013/03/21/scholrev-why-are-we-doing-this-and-immediate-thoughts-on-how-to-proceed/ ) let’s explore possible approaches. I stress that this is NOT PMR directing where to go, but giving a possible lead. This sort of … Continue reading →

We have all been delighted with the immediate reaction and offers of help for the Scholarly Revolution /pmr/2013/03/20/btpdf2-scholrev-planning-the-scholarly-revolution/ . We chose the word “revolution” in a neutral sense – this can be the Digital Scholarship revolution in the same sense … Continue reading →

Exciting comment on this blog: I’ve copied it whole as I want to keep discussion very active. I’ll read in detail in the morning. In #scholrev there is no centre, certainly *I* am not running things. We couldn’t possibly get … Continue reading →

At Beyond the PDF2 www.force11.org/beyondthepdf2 a number of us felt that we needed a radical approach to scholarship and its communication. This wasn’t planned, but 25 of us met at lunch and decide we wanted to DO something different. There … Continue reading →

I’m at “Beyond the PDF2” http://www.force11.org/beyondthepdf2 – which is meant to redesign scholarly publication. I am getting increasingly restless. (I am a “retired” academic – working as hard as ever – but I have an increasingly unhappy view of academia). … Continue reading →

I am at the potentially exciting Beyond the PDF2 in Amsterdam. Because the Wifi is intermittent (at best) I’ll blog – not linearly or systematically. Because I spend much of my time with the Open Knowledge Foundation #okfn I see … Continue reading →

AMI2 and I are going through Biomed Central papers as they are some of the few that carry CC-BY licences. We’ve started at: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/11/310 and here’s a picture we’ve found: What is it? Unfortunately it’s a JPEG and we can’t … Continue reading →

There has been a week or two of discourse about licences for scholarly publications – much of it attempting to show that the widely used CC-BY licence (from Creative Commons) has problems. The standard of discourse (from academics) has been … Continue reading →

#ami2 has been working on converting PDFs to scientific XML and we have made significant progress. Today we converted a page of PDF to chunks of SVG and then aggregated these to XHTML and non-textual chunks. We’ll show some of … Continue reading →