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#OSS2010: Reclaiming Our Scholarship – what I said

Typed and edited into Arcturus There’s an impressive (near verbatim) transcript of the sessions. this is often at least as useful as the slides. In my case essential. I do not use Powerpoint and instead click my way through my … Continue reading

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PP4_0.1: Comments on Repository Structure and location

Dictated into Arcturus Responses to PPaper4_0.1. I have had a number of useful comments to my suggestion that Scientific Data be reposited in domain-specific repositories (and a number of tweets to the effect that “PMR is dissing librarians yet again”. … Continue reading

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Open Science Summit: My homage to Berkeley – Flowerpoint

Typed into Arcturus Open Science Summit: Update. The live feed is variable, I gather. There have been many very good tweets and they are archived on:  http://opensciencefoundation.com/oss2010/ (I guess this will be dynamically updated.) I wasn’t able to show my … Continue reading

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OSS2010: My slides

Typed into Arcturus Open Science Summit: I may be presenting from another machine so here is a blog post with critical links. Most of the talk will be given by Flowerpoint, but we shall need: Reclaiming our Scholarship Peter Murray-Rust, … Continue reading

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Berkeley: Reclaiming our scholarship

Dictated into Arcturus I am giving a 10-minute talk at the Open Science Summit this afternoon at Berkeley. So many things are going round in my head and I still have no clear idea exactly what I’m going to say. … Continue reading

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Semantic destruction should no longer be tolerated

Typed and scraped into Arcturus A very important comment from Henry Rzepa [http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=2488&cpage=1#comment-471129 ] on how publishers destroy semantics. [HSR] This Peter does not mention above, but you will find a fully explained example of how to create a domain … Continue reading

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PP4_0.1: Repositories for Scientific Data

Dictated into Arcturus This post is a first outline – not even a draft – of a proposed Panton Paper on “Repositories for Scientific Data” [Note: This is likely to be controversial.] Very soon we will need to decide where … Continue reading

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What I shall say at the Open Science Summit

Dictated to Arcturus Tomorrow I shall be going to Berkeley to the Open Science Summit. I am creating some audio visual material which is somewhat unconventional and takes us back to the Bay Area of 50 years ago. I’ll say … Continue reading

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PP3_0.1: Who owns Scientific Data? Anyone?

Typed into Arcturus This post is a first outline – not even a draft – of a proposed Panton Paper on “Who owns scientific data? Anyone?” [Note: I am using a blog format to explore these issues. This is partly … Continue reading

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PP2_0.1: Why Scientific Data should be Open

Typed into Arcturus This post is a first outline – not even a draft – of a proposed Panton Paper on “Why Scientific Data should be Open” This outline is largely a rework of material that I first exposed on … Continue reading

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