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I shall be explaining (very rapidly) the role of Open, Closed, text and data in my talk on Open Crystallography. I shall use a series of diagrams with consistent semiotics. Before I start I want to make it clear that … Continue reading →

I am speaking on 2011-08-29 on new methods of publishing crystallography including data. I shall prepare my talk as a series of blog posts, not necessarily in the order that they are presented at the meeting. I am arguing that … Continue reading →

I am giving an invited talk on Monday 2011-08-29 at the IUCr (http://www.iucr2011madrid.es/index.php/program/scientific-program ) about our Crystaleye system and more generally about new approaches to publishing science. I’ll be blogging a lot over the next 2 days and get all … Continue reading →

I am talking an a few minutes to a group of chemists, other scientists, computational scientists, informatics specialist, IR managers, etc. in ZCAM (computational chemistry) in Zaragoza. This is a very exciting project and we hope to not only talk, … Continue reading →

I am defining DataSharers as an ecology of places to make digital stuff available for sharing. I am still searching for a good term. Digisharer? Digital Sharer? I originally explored this list for repositories so the criteria are slightly different. … Continue reading →

Gigascience tweeted that they were studying my suggested principles for data repositories – which I shall now amend to DataSharers. I’d heard vaguely about GigaScience on the blogosphere but not paid huge attention as their datasets are large and I … Continue reading →

I have 3-4 important talks to give in the next 2-3 weeks about Openness, Data and how they come together. As I often do I expose the ideas on this blog and hope for feedback. I’m going to highlight the … Continue reading →

[I overwrote this, but have recovered the content from Google’s cache. Thanks to Google]   In thinking about data repositories I have been thinking about repositories in general and what makes them successful. I’m going to start by suggesting some … Continue reading →

I have got useful feedback from my last post about design of repositories and it raises some serious issues which will be important in future discussions. [I should say that I get very little feedback, which is a pity as … Continue reading →

As part of my analysis of what data repositories should look like, I look here at repos in general. There has been some useful feedback to my latest posts, mainly about Instituional Repositories (IRs), in the comments and on Twitter. … Continue reading →