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For some years I have seen the primary literature as an enormous untapped resource of scholarly information. We humans are very good at some aspects of “reading the literature” but there are many areas where machines are better and should … Continue reading →

    It’s been an exciting week in Pantonia. I have been very active with our new Panton Fellows (http://science.okfn.org/2012/04/03/introducing-our-panton-fellows/) Last Monday Ross Mounce came over to Cambridge and we looked in depth about liberating information about phylogenetic trees. This … Continue reading →

  I am presenting a talk in Poland today – although I am in Rome. http://www.eifl.net/events/open-science-education-conference-poland Open science & education conference, Poland 13 Apr 2012 – 14 Apr 2012 Nicolaus Copernicus University (NCU) invites you to the Third International Conference … Continue reading →

I always try to blog what I said in meetings as I don’t (can’t) use traditional slides. Today I scraped slides off the web and my talk was significantly different from what I had prepared. This was in considerable part … Continue reading →

  I am presenting this afternoon in Rome to an important group of science-oriented people/organizations – about 70 people will be there. As always I try to talk to people before the presentation. I’ve got 20 minutes, and I want … Continue reading →

I have been invited to Rome to help start the Horizon 2020 Consultation for future European funding: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/e-infrastructure/docs/agenda_alea_rome.pdf It’s an important meeting and follows a morning presentation by Neelie Kroes (European Digital Agenda) and responses by National scientific societies. http://www.allea.org/Content/ALLEA/General%20Assemblies/General%20Assembly%202012/GA_draft_programme_overview_final.pdf … Continue reading →

This blog has been down but I can now congratulate our 2 new Panton fellows, Sophie Kershaw and Ross Mounce. Laura Newman has written an account http://blog.okfn.org/2012/03/30/introducing-our-panton-fellows/ and I took photos. I will write much more (I’m very busy at … Continue reading →

TomMR made me take a day off to the Guardian Open day http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2012/mar/24/the-guardian-open-weekend-live-blog . For non-UK readers the Guardian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian orginally the Manchester Guardian ) is 180 years old and one of the few non-profit, major daily newspapers. The Guardian … Continue reading →

Jenny Molloy, Diane Cabell, Laura Newman and I have been working to create a considered, hopefully powerful and constructive report to the Hargreaves report recommending the reform of UK copyright. (This is not a formal OKF response – OKF deliberately … Continue reading →

As recipients of the Skolnik award Henry Rzepa and I are organizing the symposium at the ACS Fall meeting in Philadelphia http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_ARTICLEMAIN&node_id=395&content_id=CNBP_029137&use_sec=true&sec_url_var=region1&__uuid=2f5d0717-e31c-47f1-af30-0a1337afd759. (Aug 19-23). Depending on how many abstracts we receive this will last between 1 and 3 days, most … Continue reading →