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I attended the Open Bibliographic Data meeting in London and came away very excited. Here are a few thoughts. Although bibliography is often regarded as a dry subject it’s actually incredibly relevant. We were asked for a compelling use-case for … Continue reading →

Is composed of the ABCD OPEN ACCESS Ben O’Steen has created B and C buttons in different sizes at https://bitbucket.org/beno/okfn_buttons/src Please use these. They are environment-friendly We expect to see these starting to appear on journal web pages and theses … Continue reading →

Bryan Bishop has just released the videos from the Berkeley Open Science Summit which should go down as one of the seminal Open events of 2010. http://fora.tv/partner/Open_Science_Summit I am extremely grateful for being recorded http://fora.tv/2010/07/29/Peter_Murray-Rust_Open_Knowledge_Foundation There are a few places … Continue reading →

The Third Panton Discussion took place today at 2010-09-13:15:00 in the Panton Arms when Richard Grant of The Scientist/Faculty_of_1000 visited Cambridge.     I was the only OKF member able to be present, but this worked very well because it … Continue reading →

One of the several functions of the Open Knowledge Foundation (http://www.okfn.org) is to support bottom-up projects in making knowledge Open and usable. Recently we have proposed an OKF project in Open Theses and Daniel Mietchen, an OKF volunteer from Jena, … Continue reading →

One of the exciting things about Opentech UK is meeting people who can contribute to your own work from the directions that you hadn’t thought of. So I met up with James Hetherington, from AMEE (http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=2601 ) a group that … Continue reading →

I attended this year’s OpentechUK on Saturday and have been overwhelmed by the sense of the occasion. This is brought home to me by one of the opening presentations which showed how what we are doing here-an-and now is critical … Continue reading →

  The second Panton Discussion was held yesterday on 2010-09-10:12:00 with David Dobbs. David (“writing on science, medicine, culture”, http://daviddobbs.net/ ) is a neuroscientist – though now a journalist – and here’s a recent article http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/12/the-science-of-success/7761/ with some touching reader … Continue reading →

Scraped/typed into Arcturus Reactions to the Reaction. I have now normalized the chemical names of the solvents in the Green Chain Reaction and will be posting results for each of the years. There are some exciting and important points I … Continue reading →

The first Panton Discussion with Richard Poynder was a great success. At science online (#solo10) we made some informal contacts and as a result we shall have some more discussions in the near future. There is no fixed format – … Continue reading →