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Scraped/typed into Arcturus We are on the last lap of preparation for the Green Chain Reaction. We have now built a server to receive the results – the address is in the Etherpad (http://okfnpad.org/openPatents ) We are uploading the weekly … Continue reading →

Scraped/typed into Arcturus We have now scoped out the project for the Green Chain Reaction and I am almost certain it can work. How well it works depends largely on the number and time of the volunteers. If you are … Continue reading →

Dictated into Arcturus We’ve just had the first of our Panton Discussions with Richard Poynder as the visiting guest. This went extremely well and as you can see from the photographs was held in the small room in the Panton … Continue reading →

Typed into Arcturus   Following on from our creation of the Panton Principles we are now starting a series of “Panton Discussions”. These are intended to explore in public, with a well-known guest, aspects of Open Data. They have a … Continue reading →

Dictated into Arcturus On Friday David Shotton from Oxford and I visited Iain.Hrynaszkiewicz and colleagues at Biomed Central to discuss collaboration on several grants funded by JISC. In our case they are Open-bibliography (#jiscopenbib) and #jiscxyz (on data) and in … Continue reading →

Scraped/typed into Arcturus The Blue Obelisk (http://www.blueobelisk.org ) is a relatively unstructured group of people interested in software and information in chemistry. The mantra is: “Open Data, Open Standards, Open Source” This guides the BlueOb in its thinking. It has … Continue reading →

Scraped/typed into Arcturus But now we’ll show what we can get out of patents. Even if you aren’t a chemist you should be able to follow this. It’ll show you what text-mining is about and how we are looking for … Continue reading →

Scraped/typed into Arcturus As we are making progress I thought we’d let you have a look at what we are doing. Because we believe in Openness we’re wearing our heart in the Open and telling you as it is created. … Continue reading →

Scraped/typed into Arcturus Typical hard slog day, gearing up to do text-mining on the chemical reactions extracted from the patent. Slower than I had thought but steady progress. The routines are all written – it’s the glueware that is the … Continue reading →

Scraped/typed into Arcturus Continued incremental progress… I know it’s the summer vacation but we need your help even more. Now is your chance to Download documents robotically Run semantifiers over them Do natural language processing Extract data from raw text … Continue reading →