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#animalgarden like everything that’s Open and especially animals so they were very excited to hear of @thePeerJ and its blue monkey. PeerJ is an Open Access publisher (and PMR thinks it’s a good thing and may publish in it). But … Continue reading →

#animalgarden are excited. They are going to Beyond-the-PDF2 #btpdf2 and have been accepted for a demo. That’s a lot of hard work so they are working hard. Last time you saw them (/pmr/2013/03/05/animalgarden-ami2-svg2xml-ignorantchemist-transforming-pdfs-into-xml/ ) they had extracted the characters from … Continue reading →

  #ami2 has “solved” the problem of transforming PDFs into SVG and Unicode. “solved” is relative as there is a perpetual increase in non-conformant PDFs with strange fonts, but AMI2 has transformations for the most important. She probably has a … Continue reading →

#animalgarden are excited – the Blue Monkey needs a name: http://blog.peerj.com/post/43649138800/name-the-peerj-monkey Many of you already know and love the PeerJ Monkey Mascot. Up until now, we just called it “Monkey” and Monkey has already starred in its own line of … Continue reading →

#animalgarden are very excited. They are going to Beyond-the-PDF-2 #btpdf2 to give a demo of AMI2. AMI2 is a tool to read the whole scientific literature and extract the factual data. That will be legal in the UK in October … Continue reading →

[This is a first draft! Will be used for the talk and then refined]. I’m talking this morning at Kitware, a US company (SME) spun out of GE and making enormous contributions to Openness. It creates and distributes a widely … Continue reading →

I have recently blogged about the standard of “typesetting” in STM publishing and commented that much of it was very poor in that it destroyed the identity of the characters in the document (i.e. many fonts do not use Unicode … Continue reading →

This is a list of tweets from my talk. It’s a very good summary – thanks everyone. I have removed duplicates so that each tweet is a separate topic. They aren’t in true order of my presentation or in time. … Continue reading →

The Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) at Columbia have done a truly magnificent job of capturing the Managing Research Data event. As a result we have access to videos, aggregated tweets etc. http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/29603442 contains my presentation (mins 31-50). … Continue reading →

This is a talk given today at Kitware, Clifton Park, NY state. It overlaps with #rds2013 Peter Murray-Rust, University of Cambridge and Open Knowledge Foundation   This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.   Neelie Kroes. … Continue reading →