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#scholarlyhtml We are gearing up for the weekend scholarly hackfest in Cambridge. Like all hackfests it is organised chaos. But we are assembling a range of top-class creators. They include: Peter Sefton (USQ, ICE, HTML) Martin Fenner (Hannover, WordPress) Brian … Continue reading →

#quixote #xmlcml I am delighted to announce the first Quixote Conference http://quixote.wikispot.org/First_Quixote_Conference_-_22nd-23rd_March_2010 at Daresbury Laboratory. This is the outcome of all the work put in by the Quixote community and is A meeting to create the first Open distributed repository … Continue reading →

#scholarlyhtml @ptsefton We’re gearing up for our scholarly hackfest (March 12-13) – for details see http://www-pmr.ch.cam.ac.uk/wiki/Scholarly_HTML which will be updated and which includes a registration process. This is because it’s over a weekend and we need to know who is … Continue reading →

I have been struggling to put my thoughts in order about an underprivileged being – the scholarly author. This post is slightly ahead of a well-formed idea but it’s prompted by Peter Suber’s call for a new term for (?collaborative) … Continue reading →

[From Alan Ball] The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) has published the second in its series ofHow-to Guides: ‘How to License Research Data’ by Alex Ball of the DCC, inassociation with JISC Legal. The guide explains why licensing data isimportant, what … Continue reading →

The momentum of “Beyond the PDF” continues and we are planning a hackfest in Cambridge in March to build scholarly publishing tools. I floated the idea yesterday http://groups.google.com/group/beyond-the-pdf/browse_thread/thread/af2e6a4d43c361f8 (one of the many discussion threads you can read). The details are … Continue reading →

Richard Poynder has just blogged about our Panton discussion which has been released as audio and we hope a transcript RSN. But the main reason for this post is that I have learnt something new and unsettling about our adoption … Continue reading →

With the release of Chem4Word (sorry Chemistry Add-in for Word) we’ve reached an important milestone in the development of CML. CML is about 16 years old (Henry will give a better estimate – but I think we can reasonably date … Continue reading →

#jiscopenbib Bibliographic Data are the lifeblood of scholarship. They tell us how to find scholarly artefacts and to recognise them when we’ve found them. The journal names, the authors, the pages. They are as exciting as streetnames and housenumbers. Which … Continue reading →

If you can understand that it means two things: That Adrian Pohl has translated the Principles of Open Bibliographic Data into German (thanks!) http://openbiblio.net/principles/de/ That if you only speak German you have no excuse now for not SIGNING them