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#blueobelisk I am catching up on lots of blog posts that I should have done – and this is the oldest. It’s Jim Downing being presented with a Blue Obelisk last summer. Jim has made an outstanding contribution to our … Continue reading →

#pmrsymp #blueobelisk #pmrhack Wonderful three days. Lots on twitterfall – just follow the hastages. Hackfest achieved a breakthrough with: Dave M-R’s Spook Molecules in Cambridge (many people in the audience were able to see them) Ami – intelligent fumecupboard Kinect … Continue reading →

Just about got everything ready. Get latest details from http://www-pmr.ch.cam.ac.uk/wiki/Main_Page. #pmrhack great success – will demo results in evening Please follow and tweet. We may take questions from the twittersphere if we can manage it Must rush

#jiscopenbib A comment on my latest post on Open Bibliography deserves a full reply Marius Kempe says: January 8, 2011 at 7:42 pm  (Edit) This is very heartening to read. Might I ask for one clarification, which I think you’ve addressed … Continue reading →

#jiscopenbib #pmrsymp Over the last few months a group of us has been working to create a set of principles [below] for asserting the Openness of Bibliographic data. The initiative was sparked and driven by Adrian Pohl (acka47, also http://www.uebertext.org/ … Continue reading →

Peter Suber is one of my role models as one of the clearest and therefore most compelling advocate of Openness. He collects almost comprehensive information if what is happening and reports it in a compellingly simple clear manner. He is … Continue reading →

Egon Willighagen has done a tremendous job in setting up and running Chemical Blogspace: http://cb.openmolecules.net/ . It’s a tremendous site, not only aggregating all the blogs but also providing many services on top, such as indexing/ searching for molecules in … Continue reading →

We’ve had a very encouraging registration for the hackfest 15/16 and symposium on January 17th (/pmr/2010/12/23/pmr-events-at-unilever-centre-january-1516-and-17/ ) – there are over 70 registrants and we have had to move lecture theatre. Please register as soon as you know you are … Continue reading →

#pmrhack The contents and activities of our hackfest (/pmr/2010/12/23/pmr-events-at-unilever-centre-january-1516-and-17/ ) will be determined by YOUR inventiveness, not our planning. So here’s a typical example of a mashup created in 24 hours. It comes mainly from Dave Murray-Rust (http://mo-seph.com) with minor … Continue reading →

As part of the PMR hackfest (/pmr/2010/12/23/pmr-events-at-unilever-centre-january-1516-and-17/) we plan to have a Blue Obelisk dinner and a BlueOb hack. The Blue Obelisk (http://www.blueobelisk.org) is a group of like-minded chemists/programmers w2ho create and promote ODOSOS (open Data, Open Standards and Open … Continue reading →