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  As you know we launched the Panton Principles 2 months ago.  There has been a lot of interest and I have been talking with a number of open access and open data publishers to convince them of the value of … Continue reading →

        A brief blog post with a few thoughts about the okcon conference in London last Saturday. It was a wonderful meeting where I got the feeling that the Open Knowledge Foundation was now a real power … Continue reading →

I am taking a new approach to blogging by dictating my thoughts to the machine. On Friday I am giving a talk called “Can machines understand science?”.  I will argue that the combination of technology and information now allows us … Continue reading →

      Egon Willighagen has been a pillar of ODOSOS chemistry and comments yesterday in Chem4Word goes Apache 2.0   Early March I reported about Konstantin‘s JChemPaint-based chemistry plugin for OpenOffice, but there is competition: Chem4Word. Being for Microsoft … Continue reading →

      I have got a pingback (http://passthesource.org.nz/2010/02/11/enemy-action/ ) from my announcement of Chem4Word (our chemistry Add-in for Word). It is clearly argued and I share many of the sentiments. This is a LONG Reply. A while ago, I … Continue reading →

  Open Knowledge Foundation OKCon 2010 – what I might say     I’ve been asked to give a 10-min talk at OKCon 2010 today in London (http://www.okfn.org/okcon/) in the State of the nation opening section: STATE OF THE NATION … Continue reading →

  This is the day I have been waiting for!   Chem4word has been released as open source (http://chem4word.codeplex.com/).  .  It has been a tremendous effort by the team. The current “Dr. Who” of Chem4word is Joe Townsend.  Joe has worked … Continue reading →

I have deliberately not blogged for many months, devoting my efforts to producing code for the various projects in our group. I am now able to start again and I’ll tell you why in the next post. We have an … Continue reading →

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