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In the previous posts (/pmr/2011/11/25/textmining-nactem-and-elsevier-team-up-i-am-worried/ and /pmr/2011/11/27/textmining-my-years-negotiating-with-elsevier/ ) I highlight concerns (not just mine) about the publicly announced collaboration between NaCTeM (The National Centre for Textmining at the University of Manchester) and Elsevier (henceforth N+E). I am now going to … Continue reading →

This post – which is long, but necessary – recounts my attempts to obtain permission to text-mine content published in Elsevier’s journals. (If you wish to trust my account the simple answer is – I have got nowhere and I … Continue reading →

A bit over two weeks ago the following appeared on DCC-associates: http://www.mail-archive.com/dcc-associates@lists.ed.ac.uk/msg00618.html Mon, 07 Nov 2011 09:16:34 -0800 This press release may be of interest to list members.   University enters collaboration to develop text mining applications 07 Nov 2011 … Continue reading →

This is the first post of probably several in my concern about textmining. You do NOT have to be a scientist to understand the point with total clarity. This topic is one of the most important I have written about … Continue reading →

#orr2011 I (and colleagues) are getting ready for the December Hackathon (JISC, OKF, SWAT4LS) which includes Open Research Reports and the Semantic Web For Life Sciences. The Hackathon can include any activity but we are preparing material to bring along … Continue reading →

After posting the access metrics for VoaSMF , Egon Willighagen suggested that we also use some of the new alternative metrics (“altmetrics”). There’s more than one such effort and they are to be welcomed (citation metrics by themselves are inefficient, … Continue reading →

I believe that we seriously need a set of new metrics for scholarly publication. It should be multidimensional and one of these should be accesses. [Yes, I know it’s possible to game the system. Everything can be gamed. The only … Continue reading →

#quixote #chempound The eResearch workshop on Semantic Physical Science was a technical success and has convinced me that now anyone can deploy our Chempound semantic repository. If you don’t know what a repository does, here is an explanation (you need … Continue reading →

#eres2011 Nico Adams , Alex wade and I ran a 1-day workshop yesterday at eResearch. Very well attended (30 participants) who were mainly well prepared – we’d asked for Java installed if possible. The programme was ambitious, roughly:   Nico … Continue reading →

@jenny_molloy has created a top class summary of #ORR2011 at http://science.okfn.org/2011/10/29/okfn-at-oss2011-open-research-reports/ . It will point you to the discussions, the presentations and the latest URLs for the workshop, etc. We have a wiki at http://wiki.okfn.org/Wg/Science/swat4ls_hackathon Jenny and I have created … Continue reading →