Category Archives: “virtual communities”

librarians of the future – Christine and Kimberley

Posted on April 3, 2009 by pm286

It was great to meet up again with Christine Borgman from UCLA at the Microsoft meeting. Christine and I have much in common about what needs to be done for digital scholarship. Christine runs a Masters (I think) in LIS … Continue reading →

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libraries of the future – what I shall say

Posted on April 2, 2009 by pm286

I am blogging what I hope to cover in my 15 minutes.and I am speaking from the view of practising STM researchers in publicly funded institutions. Please feel free to follow the links during the presentation. There are also ca … Continue reading →

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Update from Redmond – OREChem and Chem4Word

Posted on March 31, 2009 by pm286

We are at the Microsoft External Research conference in Redmond, having spent 2 days on the OREChem project. I’ve been too busy to blog much as tomorrow we are presenting the MS-sponsored OREChem and Chem4Word projects for the first time. … Continue reading →

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"should theses be Open?"

Posted on March 29, 2009 by pm286

Until now most theses reside in a dusty basement or on a supervisor’s shelf, but we are in transition to a world where all theses are -potentially – Openly visible to anyone. Surely this is a good idea. In principle, … Continue reading →

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OREChem

Posted on March 27, 2009 by pm286

I will start to widen out from the library of the future  and bring in chemistry and eScience. Librarians should not switch off as the topics are very relevant. Several in our group are off to Redmond – to two … Continue reading →

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library of the future – what do I say?

Posted on March 24, 2009 by pm286

It’s now 9 days since I started thinking about what I was going to say at the JISC LOTF09 meeting at Oxford next week. I’ve sent out 15 posts ion this blog. I’ve used the LOTF09 tag. I use twitter … Continue reading →

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librarians of the future – Part III

Posted on March 22, 2009 by pm286

Continuing the theme of librarians (as creators of the new libraries). Very little feedback on the blog, a bit more on FriendFeed. A general feeling that ULibrarians (I shall use this to mean University Librarians who run ULibraries) were not … Continue reading →

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Cameron's Open proposal

Posted on November 23, 2007 by pm286

In the last two days Cameron Neylon has posted an idea for Open Science and got a lot of interest, see: e-science for open science – an EPSRC research network proposal and Follow on to network proposal. The idea is … Continue reading →

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Using Connotea as a community annotator for CrystalEye

Posted on November 9, 2007 by pm286

Quite by chance I met up in the bar yesterday evening with Ian Mulvany (see Nature Network entry) from Nature Publishing Group. Our group had been talking about how we could annotate structures in CrystalEye, the crystallographic knowledgebase that Nick … Continue reading →

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WWMM: The World Wide Molecular Matrix

Posted on October 27, 2007 by pm286

Since I have been asked to talk about the WWMM here’s a bit of background… When the UK e-Science project started (2001) we put in a proposal for a new vision of shared chemistry – the World Wide Molecular Matrix. … Continue reading →

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