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We are doing well at reconstructing semantic material from PDFs (#AMI2) but the challenges we are thrown are considerable. Here’s today’s amusement: #AMI2 can reconstruct most of this perfectly, but she doesn’t know what to do with a hyphenated-subscript....
From the start of this month all RCUK-funded researchers will have to publish “Open Access”. Exactly what this means has been the subject of a messy set of polemics. But on the assumption that authors wish to publish under a CC-BY licence (effectively...
A quick update. I’ve been spending most of my time on #ami2 which is now at raw alpha (see below). Other items of note include: Mendeley is now owned by Elsevier. I shall blog this. If you care about Open scholarship you have to be seriously concerned....
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Henry Rzepa and I have been awarded the Herman Skolnik award of the ACS and will be running a 1-day symposium next week. In my own talk (20 mins) I’ll be looking to the future under the theme “Can we build artificially intelligent chemists?”...
#semphyssci Marcus Hanwell (Kitware) reported from the #semphyssci working group which was looking at how to grow the development and use of CML in the community. One of the great excitements of the Workshop is the agreement among participants that CML is valuable,...
I believe that we seriously need a set of new metrics for scholarly publication. It should be multidimensional and one of these should be accesses. [Yes, I know it's possible to game the system. Everything can be gamed. The only thing that can't is scientific...
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It is a great pleasure (and honor) to be able to speak at the upcoming Herman Skolnik Award Symposium (where Peter Murray-Rust and Henry Rzepa will be awarded). Unfortunately, I will not be present in person and will give my presentation remotely. I will put...
What a busy year it has been so far, a leap day hardly seems enough to help me catch up! I started off the year with a meeting in Cambridge, England on Semantic Physical Science which was hosted by Peter Murray-Rust. I ended up leading the working group on...
It's quite interesting to monitor the page accesses for publications in J. Cheminf. (which incidentally has just gotten a much improved interface). While page accesses are not citations, they do provide a measure of general interest in a paper. Also, if you...