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#quixotechem #cmlcomp We have had a fantastic two days at Daresbury developing a prototype of a repository system for computational chemistry. Although computational chemistry is a major scientific discipline, supporting bioscience, materials, chemical reactions, energy, etc. it consists of isolated … Continue reading →

#scholarlyhtml We’ve had a great hackfest – extended over 10 days – working towards scholarly HTML. The idea is simple – we should be using HTML as the main substrate for exchanging information in areas of scholarship, research, education and … Continue reading →

There has been a lot of interest in #scholarlyhtml and Peter Sefton has blogged latest thoughts yesterday: http://ptsefton.com/2011/03/18/scholarly-html-fraglets-of-progress.htm The techniques we’re documenting have been drawn from lots of previous work, … I don’t think we’re duplicating work but trying to … Continue reading →

#scholarlyhtml Our extended hackfest over the last 3 days has made huge progress towards Scholarly HTML. We will be posting reports on #beyondthepdf lists and also continuously and continually updating Etherpads, wikis, code pages, etc. Our current starting place is … Continue reading →

Euan has commented on my enquiry to Mendely about their “Open data”. He raises important valid points  Euan says: March 12, 2011 at 1:08 am  (Edit) IANAL, but the data includes (or did last time I checked) many, many abstracts … Continue reading →

#scholarlyhtml Martin Fenner, Peter Sefton and I have been discussing what Scholarly HTML is, what we intend to do over the weekend and then what Peter and we will do next week. This post is “my slides” to introduce the … Continue reading →

#scholarlyhtml We’ve already started the ScholarlyHTML event (with Peter Sefton’s prfesence) but tomorrow we start to ramp up with a session presented by Peter Sefton, Martin Fenner and Brian McMahon. (There’ll also be Simon Hodson and others including me). We … Continue reading →

I have had a very rapid response to my blog post: Jason Hoyt says: March 10, 2011 at 3:02 pm  (Edit) Hi Peter, All very good and valid questions raised there. To answer you acid test: yes, you could download and … Continue reading →

Mendeley have invited me to enter their “API Binary Battle” and win 10001 USSD. http://dev.mendeley.com/api-binary-battle. Here’s the blurb: Build an application with our data, make science more open and win $10,001! What’s it all about? At Mendeley we love science. … Continue reading →

I missed an important OKF event on Monday – the identification of Linked Open Drug Data. Linked Open Data is one of the great emerging ideas of the modern Web – the idea that data is semantic, linked and open. … Continue reading →