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Scraped/typed into Arcturus Reactions to the Reaction.   Responses to “#solo10 Immediate reactions and thanks” Egon Willighagen says: September 6, 2010 at 9:48 am  (Edit) Peter, what is next? Are you going to push this project further, or does it stop … Continue reading →

Scraped/typed into Arcturus I AM SO GRATEFUL TO EVERYONE WHO HAS HELPED WITH THE GREEN CHAIN REACTION. THE SESSION WAS A GREAT SUCCESS. WE GOT A PRELIMINARY RESULT ABOUT 5 MINS BEFORE WE WENT LIVE: There is no immediately obvious … Continue reading →

Scraped/typed into Arcturus The first results are Live! For 11 years (2000-2010) we have a list of the aggregated frequency of solvents. YOU can start to decide on the greenness – no code needs to be run.   NOTES: There … Continue reading →

Scraped/typed into Arcturus The first results are Live! For 11 years (2000-2010) we have a list of the aggregated frequency of solvents. YOU can start to decide on the greenness – no code needs to be run. See http://greenchain.ch.cam.ac.uk/patents/results/2008/solventFrequency.htm   … Continue reading →

We had a wonderful meeting yesterday with Dave Flanders (JISC) David Shotton’s (Oxford) group (#jiscopencite) and our #jiscopenbib (Cambridge/OKF) – more details later. We really believe these projects can make a major change to Open Scholarship. We came up – … Continue reading →

Scraped/typed into Arcturus The Green Chain Reaction is now delivering results! Due to the enormous contribution of volunteers we have now distributed work over many machines and extracted large amounts of data and successfully text-mined it. On my laptop alone … Continue reading →

Scraped/typed into Arcturus We now have our “beta”-production software for the Green Chain Reaction. We’ve put about 10,000 solvents on the web page. But – if more volunteers take part in the next 2-3 days – that could be multiplied … Continue reading →

Roderic Page (http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2010/08/on-being-open-mendeley-and-open-data.html ) has discussed Mendeley’s “Open API” and decided (as do I [Mendeley, Scopus, Talis – will you be making your data Open? ] ) that whether the code is Open is less important than whether the data … Continue reading →

Scraped/typed into Arcturus Ian Mulvany (VP New Product Development, Mendeley) Has blogged about the excitement of connecting scientific data: (http://directedgraph.net/2010/08/27/connecting-scientific-data/ ) I’m going to be hosting a session at science online London next weekend, I’m excited. I’ve been interested in … Continue reading →

Dictated into Arcturus The GreenChainReaction is already a success!. It’s a success because we’ve had a wonderful set of volunteers who are committed to making it work. The atmosphere in the Etherpad yesterday was wonderful. The group has worked hard … Continue reading →