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I’m (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Murray-Rust ) sadly leaving CSIRO (http://www.csiro.au/) and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia on Wed (but I plan to be back). This post is very brief and illustrates how far the semantic web has come in some areas. Here I have included PLACES DATES … Continue reading →

 [Coped from http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal . PMR: I find this very clearly argued and very compelling] The Finch Report says a good deal more about Green, and repositories, than your representation suggests but, of course, anyone can judge for themselves by looking … Continue reading →

PMR has been hacking bugs with MJ and AMI2… PMR: PDF2SVG should now manage Type0 fonts and we’ve fixed bugs on some character processing. Now let’s look at the Dingbats… AMI, do you have a Dingbat lookup-table? A: No P: … Continue reading →

#animalgarden is mining the content in Open Access articles. [They don’t know what “Open Access” means [PMR: nor do I] so they are using CC-BY ]. They’re using Mike (Dino) Taylor’s papers as it’s about dinosaurs, giraffes and okapis (Chuff: … Continue reading →

#animalgarden are excited (AMI2, Sleepless and Chuff) are meeting in Melbourne. Chuff the @okfn_okapi has told them that people are interested in biodiversity. Chuff says that’s about animals and plants. PMR tells them that’s there a new journal, PeerJ, which … Continue reading →

These are thoughts for my 15-minute session at #rds2013. Feel free to comment. I’d particularly like to know of any F/OSS that manages timed slide presentation on Windows so I don’t have to use Powerpoint. I have 900 seconds including … Continue reading →

I’m setting out what I want to present at Columbia #rds2013 in a series of posts. I’ve got 15 mins to present- this is good discipline and it means I have to work very hard to prepare – I can’t … Continue reading →

I’m flying back to AU from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aotearoa (NZ). I’ve got 15 mins of free wifi left (this blog will be randomly updated). Here’s an example of a species (unknown to me, but No doubt Wikipediable) at Murawai on 2013-02-10. A … Continue reading →

I have sent the following email to Elsevier’s Director of Universal Access (“very passionate about expanding access to information”). In summary I request that Elsevier publish all supplementary information (past, present, and future) and that by 27th Feb she gives … Continue reading →

Greetings, I have had a great time at #kiwifoo – I travel in PMR’s backpack with my head looking out. I’ve made lots of friends but haven’t met any kiwis (we wanted to go yesterday to see them but the … Continue reading →