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The US government (OSTP) has recently issued an RFI on Open Access to data resulting from publicly funded research.   The deadline for responding to the White House RFI on OA to US federally funded research has been extended to … Continue reading →

We have now edited and converted the Panton Discussion with IainH – it’s at http://vimeo.com/34555054. The full video runs for 28 minutes, so we have given a TOC with start times if you want to jump to particular topics. In … Continue reading →

We (Charlotte Bolton and I) are preparing the material for the Semantic Physical Science Workshop in January (10/12). A major feature of this is our Jumbo-Converters which convert legacy log files to semantic CML. To do that we are cleaning … Continue reading →

I have spent the last days on and off editing the material that Laura Newman (OKFN) and I collected from BiomedCentral – interviewing Iain Hrynaszkiewicz and also Gulliver Turtle. Iain has got the (slightly edited) video/audio and hoped to let … Continue reading →

Yesterday Laura Newman (OKF) and I met with Iain Hrynaszkiewicz of BiomedCentral and recorded a Panton discussion. Panton discussions are irregular discussions with figures in the Open world and have traditionally taken place in the Panton Arms in Cambridge, where … Continue reading →

I am going to have to reply to an article by Stevan Harnad (http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/862-guid.html ) where he argues inter alia that gratisOA (e.g. through Green, CC-restricted) rather than libreOA (e.g. through Gold, or CC-BY) should be adopted because: “Note that … Continue reading →

Yesterday I gave an invited plenary lecture at http://lbm2011.biopathway.org/ – The Fourth International Symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine (LBM 2011) Nanyang Technological University, Singapore .14th and 15th December, 2011 The meeting was on Natural Language Processing – using … Continue reading →

We are delighted to announce that we are running a Workshop and Symposium on Semantic Physical Science (see below). This will explore how to use physical scientific data in semantic form and will explore: creation by humans and machines, specifications … Continue reading →

This weeks’ hackathon showed how much could be accomplished in a (short) day-and-a-half. I’ve already given a brief overview but here I discuss our project – Open Research Reports and disease – in detail. David Shotton and Tanya gray introduced … Continue reading →

The 1.5 day hackathon prequel to the SWAT4LS workshop was a great success – at least all the 30+ people there thought so. This is just a brief report and thanks. First enormous thanks to Andrea Splendiani and Mahendra Mahey … Continue reading →