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\nIf you can understand that it means two things:\n
\n#jiscopenbib\n
\nBibliographic Data are the lifeblood of scholarship. They tell us how to find scholarly artefacts and to recognise them when we've found them. The journal names, the authors, the pages. They are as exciting as streetnames and housenumbers.\n
\nWhich are exciting. Maps are exciting and bibliography is the map of scholarship. It's not the complete map \u2013 but the skeleton. The framework to which other properties are added.\n
\nAnd the question I have been chasing for some months is whether they are Open\u2026 Can I make a list of bibliographic data and publish them Openly?\n
\nMost people I ask mumble. But two days ago Eefke Smit of the STM Publishers assoc rang me and we talked a lot about what was Open and what was not. The problem is that many things are not clear and Open to interpretation. And so it comes down to \"it all depends on\".
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Which sometimes it does. The problem is that software can't make that sort of judgment. It works on Boolean Logic \u2013 you can, or you can't. We didn't resolve all the questions, but Eefke got back very rapidly and here's her reply.\n
\nP: Thank you very much for a full reply. This is very helpful.
\nI am copying this in to the Open Bibliography list. [PMR] For their background I have been exploring with Eefke and the STM Publishers association whether text-mining was allowable and whether bibliographic data is copyrightable. Eefke gives a clear answer to the second so I am posting this on this list. I think it now makes possible a lot of very valuable things with Open Bibliographic Data.
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On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Eefke Smit <eefkesmi@xs4all.nl> wrote:
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As promised, I would sort out your question about the openness of bibliographies. You made quite clear in our conversation that you are not particularly fond of 'it depends' answers. So I fear you may find the following answer slightly disappointing, because also for bibliographies the answer to the question how open they are, depends on what your regard to be elements of a bibliography.
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We\u00a0 have addressed this in \"Principles of Open Bibliographic Data\" http://openbiblio.net/principles/
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To start with the simplest elements that are indeed open and considered 'facts' hence copyright free: article title; authors of article; journal title; volume-issue information; and dates of receipt/publication. These are all considered to be facts and cannot be copyrighted.
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We have essentially covered these in
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Core data: names and identifiers of author(s) and editor(s), titles, publisher information, publication date and place, identification of parent work (e.g. a journal), page information, URIs.
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I think this is entirely in line with you and your STM colleagues and this agreement is an extremely important step forward.
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But nowadays people sometimes include much more into bibliographies, for example images, tables, abstracts, even chemical structures. Bibliographic data can include a number of different kinds of fields and information, including thesauri, classifications like chemistry structures, etc., so there can be some information that is copyrightable or systems that are tied into copyright or trademark protected content.\u00a0
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Precisely what that is does indeed \"depend\". Our list of secondary bibliographic data overlaps greatly with yours. I have highlighted the components that I would believe would be uncopyrightable.
\nSecondary data: format of work, non-web identifiers (ISBN, LCCN, OCLC number etc.), an indication of rights associated with a work, information on sponsorship (e.g. funding), information about carrier type, extent and size information, administrative data (last modified etc.), relevant links (to wikipedia, google books, amazon etc.), table of contents, links to digitized parts of a work (tables of content, registers, bibliographies etc.), addresses and other contact details about the author(s), cover images, abstracts, reviews, summaries, subject headings, assigned keywords, classification notation, user-generated tags, exemplar data (number of holdings, call number), \u2026
\nThis does not mean that the others were by default copyrightable, but we know of places where people have asserted rights over some of them.
\nI think you and I differ about whether tables and graphs are copyrightable in this context. I would concede that images which contained creative work were copyrightable but that images representing factual information (e.g. chemical structures) were not copyrightable. For example it would be foolish to be unable to communicate a chemical structure to someone because you might break copyright. There are millions of such images on suppliers bottles and witholding this information means that people could and would die.
\nI also asked about whom I should contact within a publisher to get a definitive answer from that organization (as most of the time I get no reply).
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On your question whom to contact for permissions \u00a0as a reader, I would advise you to address the 'rights and permissions departments' or 'licensing departments' at the relevant publisher houses or else enquire via your local license holder (Cambridge library) who their contacts are. Very often these are regionally assigned, so a general list would be difficult to compose.
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This seems to confirm that it can therefore be quite difficult to get the right person within a large publishing house and get an answer.
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The STM members can be found on www.stm-assoc.org
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Hope this information is of help to you,
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Yes it is very useful.
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Kindest regards, Eefke Smit.
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So this is very useful. We agree on this. Bibliographic Data is FREE. As in Speech. Like OpenStreetmap we can start building the bibliographic map of the world.
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With the release of Chem4Word (sorry Chemistry Add-in for Word) we've reached an important milestone in the development of CML. CML is about 16 years old (Henry will give a better estimate \u2013 but I think we can reasonably date it from our trip to WWW1 and henry's subsequent trip to WWW2). I think it's reasonably come of age and can now be regarded as the de facto approach to representing semantic chemistry. And part of the purpose of PMR Symposium #pmrsymp was to be able to make that assertion. We didn't actually have much about CML per se, but the working code was all based on CML and we shall be publishing the justification in a special issue of BMC.\n
\nIt's not been easy to make that statement until now. It needs at least:\n
\nCML supports five main subdomains and there is extensive experience and code in all:\n
\nAnd it's worth pointing out that CML can be used as a computational language \u2013 i.e. it can be self-modifying as in polymer markup language.\n
\nI owe a huge debt to lots of people and CML really is a community effort, with strong moderation. We wouldn't be here without the Blue Obelisk, eScience/GRID, and the bioscience community. We're open to any new ventures and ideas \u2013 incorporation in existing codes, chemical publication, artificial intelligence, etc.\n
\nCML is ready for universal use within chemistry.\n
\nJoe Townsend is coordinating much of the effort. I will be blogging at regular intervals. We hope to get semantic chemical blogging (e.g. in WordPress) very soon.
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\nLast August I sat down in a pub (The Panton Arms) in Cambridge to discuss Open Data with Peter Murray-Rust, Jordan Hatcher and others. The event was the first of what Murray-Rust has dubbed the Panton Discussions. Murray-Rust is a Reader in Molecular Informatics at Cambridge University. The Panton Arms regularly plays host to members of the University Chemistry Department, so it was an obvious place to meet. This special relationship between Cambridge chemists and The Panton Arms is doubtless a consequence of the pub being just down the road from the Chemistry Department.
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And perhaps Richard is unaware that Panton Street (between the Chemistry Dept and the pub) is also the home of the Open Knowledge Foundation. Indeed you are quite likely to bump into Rufus and his collaborators in the street. Just last week we had a long intense discussion outside the OKF with the wind whistling through our clothers\n
\nHowever, it could be that The Panton Arms is an appropriate location for discussing things like copyright, Open Data, Open Access, Creative Commons and the Public Domain for another reason.
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The Panton Arms, and Panton Street (in which the pub is located), are associated with the Panton family. And in 1806 \"Polite\" Tommy Panton succeeded in having Parliament pass the Barnwell Enclosures Act, leading to the enclosure of what was then farmland.
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I was completely unaware of this \u2013 and as I said I find it unsettling. But what is done is done, and often good has been built on the site of evil. Perhaps we need an exorcism. I assume Rufus is aware of this.\n
\nToday many argue that the frequent and increasingly maximalist changes made to copyright laws represent a new enclosure movement. And it is partly in response to that process that we have seen a proliferation of \"free\" and \"open\" movements like Open Data and Open Access \u2013 with the aim of preventing, or at least mitigating, the new enclosures.
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Richard is right. I use the terms \"digital gold rush\" or \"digital land grab\". I find it intensely frustrating that so many people are not aware of the problem and when told do not care. Academia can be very arrogant \u2013 individuals survive on the handouts from the robber barons while the general citizenry is unaware of the problem.\n
\nWe are too protected. A non-university healthcare professional is debarred from reading the literature \u2013 perhaps 90-95% of it. Non-academics are not our inferiors that we shouldn't worry about. Yet I frequently hear \"oh we can't let non-experts read that\" and similar. This is just as insulting as the many insults of human ownership, gender, race and so on that we have fought over the centuries.\n
\nWe are entering the century of the information age. It must not become the century of information slavery.
","doi":"https://doi.org/10.59350/1pj02-0xx51","guid":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/?p=2882","language":"en","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","published_at":1297036800,"rid":"8t0q7-ph898","summary":"Richard Poynder has just blogged about our Panton discussion which has been released as audio and we hope a transcript RSN. But the main reason for this post is that I have learnt something new and unsettling about our adoption of the name \"Panton\" for our outputs \u2013 we now have Panton Principles, Panton Discussions and Panton Papers.","title":"Panton, Panton, Panton","updated_at":1785505645,"url":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2011/02/07/panton-panton-panton/","version":"v1"}},{"document":{"authors":[{"contributor_roles":[],"family":"Murray-Rust","given":"Peter","url":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3386-3972"}],"blog":{"authors":[{"name":"Peter Murray-Rust","url":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3386-3972"}],"community_id":"96352a16-f83d-4304-8117-fa0296024a61","created":1785456000,"current_feed_url":null,"description":"A Scientist and the Web.","doi":"https://doi.org/10.59350/pmr","favicon":"https://rogue-scholar.org/api/communities/96352a16-f83d-4304-8117-fa0296024a61/logo","feed_format":"application/rss+xml","feed_url":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/feed/index.xml","filter":null,"generator":"WordPress","home_page_url":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/","issn":null,"language":"eng","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","prefix":"10.59350","relative_url":null,"secure":true,"slug":"pmr","status":"active","subfield":"1606","title":"petermr's blog","updated":null,"use_api":null},"blog_name":"petermr's blog","blog_slug":"pmr","content_html":"The momentum of \"Beyond the PDF\" continues and we are planning a hackfest in Cambridge in March to build scholarly publishing tools. I floated the idea yesterday http://groups.google.com/group/beyond-the-pdf/browse_thread/thread/af2e6a4d43c361f8 (one of the many discussion threads you can read). The details are coalescing to the following:\n
\nMartin , Peter and others (including me) formed a \"Writing\" group as part of BtPDF and came up with a (complete) design for scholarly authoring (on the diagram BTPDF is code name for the system)\n
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(Copyright PMR, CC-BY; used without explicit permission of the author).\n
\nWe believe that we have enough open source tools, volunteers and service providers to create a compelling prototype. So during about 11-20 March there will be intense activity in Cambridge putting it together. The rough timetable is:\n
\nAttendees from last hackfest included Ben O'Steen, Rufus and random OKF'ers, Chris Gutteridge and Dave Flanders.\n
\nAnyone is welcome but let us know beforehand for safety/security (it's a chemistry dept). As we get possible attendees we'll publish a list. This is not a sleep-over hackfest (it's a chemistry dept) but there are lots of good pubs.\n
\nIt is a hackfest, not a tutorial. So be prepared to get your fingers dirty. You don't have to be a coder \u2013 we'll welcome:\n
\nAnd more\n
\nThe last hackfest was 2 days and the achievements were sensational. This one will be even more so. We'll provide geek food. The only problem is burn-out.\n
\nWe are calling this \"Scholarly HTML\". It will bring power back to the authors. Too much of our scholarly communication is controlled by digital neo-colonialists. HTML was and is an agent of revolution and democracy. This hackfest is in that tradition.\n
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","doi":"https://doi.org/10.59350/qrhyv-3c967","guid":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/?p=2884","image":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2011/02/020911_0836_ScholarlyHT1.png","language":"en","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","published_at":1297209600,"rid":"h6ea3-rjx54","summary":"The momentum of \"Beyond the PDF\" continues and we are planning a hackfest in Cambridge in March to build scholarly publishing tools. I floated the idea yesterday http://groups.google.com/group/beyond-the-pdf/browse_thread/thread/af2e6a4d43c361f8 (one of the many discussion threads you can read). The details are coalescing to the following: Peter Sefton (http://ptsefton.com/) will visit us for about 11-20 March 2011.","title":"Scholarly HTML Hackfest Cambridge UK March","updated_at":1785505643,"url":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2011/02/09/scholarly-html-hackfest-cambridge-uk-march/","version":"v1"}},{"document":{"authors":[{"contributor_roles":[],"family":"Murray-Rust","given":"Peter","url":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3386-3972"}],"blog":{"authors":[{"name":"Peter Murray-Rust","url":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3386-3972"}],"community_id":"96352a16-f83d-4304-8117-fa0296024a61","created":1785456000,"current_feed_url":null,"description":"A Scientist and the Web.","doi":"https://doi.org/10.59350/pmr","favicon":"https://rogue-scholar.org/api/communities/96352a16-f83d-4304-8117-fa0296024a61/logo","feed_format":"application/rss+xml","feed_url":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/feed/index.xml","filter":null,"generator":"WordPress","home_page_url":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/","issn":null,"language":"eng","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","prefix":"10.59350","relative_url":null,"secure":true,"slug":"pmr","status":"active","subfield":"1606","title":"petermr's blog","updated":null,"use_api":null},"blog_name":"petermr's blog","blog_slug":"pmr","content_html":"[From Alan Ball]\n
\nThe Digital Curation Centre (DCC) has published the second in its series of
How-to Guides: 'How to License Research Data' by Alex Ball of the DCC, in
association with JISC Legal. The guide explains why licensing data is
important, what licensing options are available to researchers, and how to go
about attaching a licence to a dataset.
The DCC's How-to Guides offer practical introductions for those who need more
than the high-level basic awareness given in DCC briefing papers, but less than
the in-depth coverage given in the Curation Reference Manual. This guide is
aimed at principal investigators, researchers, and those who provide access to
research data through a data centre, repository or archive.
'How to License Research Data' is available for online reading or download
from http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/how-guides/license-research-data
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This is a valuable medium-level overview of the different legal aspects of publishing data. Data, of course, is now found in many disciplines , not just science. At the very fine-grained level, data is extraordinarily complex, but at a high level it can be very easy.\n
\nIf you are a scientist and haven't thought about data licences, then consider the value of making your data available to others. That's anathema to many traditional scientists \u2013 and an attitude that will survive for some time. There are moral, ethical, political, social and utilitarian reasons why you should consider making your data Open. [There are cases where you cannot open data \u2013 human privacy, breeding grounds of rare species, etc. And often the decision involves other people. But at least consider it.]\n
\nI am not a fan of licences. They are complex, legal algorithms do not map onto any formal system of mathematics, and they are subject to wide variation by country, date and general fuzz. That's why wherever possible you should adopt the Panton Principles (www.pantonprinciples.org/
\n) and formally dedicate your data to the Public Domain (PDDL or CC0). The complexity of combining even two licences is far greater than analysing a terabyte of multivariate data for patterns. Multiple licences make data recombination very hard.\n
AND NEVER USE NON-COMMERCIAL LICENCES.\n
\nThe only people this hinders and hurts are people like you.
","doi":"https://doi.org/10.59350/77tax-mbr11","guid":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/?p=2885","language":"en","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","published_at":1297209600,"rid":"a2rhb-9q197","summary":"[From Alan Ball] The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) has published the second in its series of How-to Guides: 'How to License Research Data' by Alex Ball of the DCC, in association with JISC Legal. ","title":"Licensing Data","updated_at":1785505642,"url":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2011/02/09/licensing-data/","version":"v1"}},{"document":{"authors":[{"contributor_roles":[],"family":"Murray-Rust","given":"Peter","url":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3386-3972"}],"blog":{"authors":[{"name":"Peter Murray-Rust","url":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3386-3972"}],"community_id":"96352a16-f83d-4304-8117-fa0296024a61","created":1785456000,"current_feed_url":null,"description":"A Scientist and the Web.","doi":"https://doi.org/10.59350/pmr","favicon":"https://rogue-scholar.org/api/communities/96352a16-f83d-4304-8117-fa0296024a61/logo","feed_format":"application/rss+xml","feed_url":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/feed/index.xml","filter":null,"generator":"WordPress","home_page_url":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/","issn":null,"language":"eng","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","prefix":"10.59350","relative_url":null,"secure":true,"slug":"pmr","status":"active","subfield":"1606","title":"petermr's blog","updated":null,"use_api":null},"blog_name":"petermr's blog","blog_slug":"pmr","content_html":"I have been struggling to put my thoughts in order about an underprivileged being \u2013 the scholarly author. This post is slightly ahead of a well-formed idea but it's prompted by Peter Suber's call for a new term for (?collaborative) authoring (http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/02-02-11.htm#contest ). Peter is striving for a term describing author-side openness and writes:\n
\nI want this new term for several reasons.\u00a0 For example, some OA resources which originally lacked author-side openness add it later, and I (and they) need a succinct way to describe what they've done.\u00a0 Sometimes I speak about OA to audiences that know wikis better than they know scholarly journals, and I'd like to say that OA articles have reader-side openness but generally don't have author-side openness.\u00a0 Likewise, I want a short and non-pejorative way to say that Wikipedia is not the poster-child of the OA movement.\u00a0
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I have been increasingly concerned about the increasing restrictions and constraints on author freedom. In the Internet age author should feel relieved of its shackles and instead scholarly authors are burdened with unnecessary constraints. Part, but only part, are of their own making \u2013 chasing the chimera of publishing prestige rather than following a more natural course of saying what they want to say. (\"You can publish there \u2013 it's not got an impact factor yet\").\n
\nA typical example today. My co-author \u2013 acting as amanuensis \u2013 grizzled that she had to reset the references in Harvard format. This is about as rewarding as whitewashing coal. It has only one purpose \u2013 to save the publisher work at the expense of the author doing the work. There are, of course, much better ways of doing references/citations \u2013 and in Open Bibliography we are hoping to develop some of them. But scholarly publishing is \u2013 bizarrely \u2013 one of the least innovative activities in the information age.\n
\nSo we need to give back freedom to authors. I think I'm taking a slightly different tack from Peter but the motivations are broadly the same. When NCSA made HTML \u2013 and more importantly HTTP \u2013 accessible in 1993 it changed the world. The message was that ordinary people could publish. I could set up a server. A little arcane, but until then I had assumed that servers were only possible for those who bought expensive tools from vendors. NCSA httpd was an instrument of liberation. Anyone \u2013 anyone \u2013 who had access to port 80 (and that wasn't difficult in those days) could set up a server.\n
\nAnd tell the world anything.\n
\nHTML could be authored in any simple text editor. No special tools. And you didn't even have to get it right. Broken HTML was rendered as best as possible. For those who didn't experience 1993/4, Wordsworth captured the spirit in\n
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Not in Utopia, subterranean fields,
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Or some secreted island, Heaven knows where!
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But in the very world, which is the world
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Of all of us,\u2013the place where in the end
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We find our happiness, or not at all!
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\nOf course it couldn't last, but there was the sense of overthrowing the established order \u2013 that everything was possible.\n
\nHTML is truly an agent of revolution and liberation.\n
\nBy contrast the publishing industry with its tools such as double-column PDF has trapped us in a digital neo-colonialism which I am struggling to understand. Academia, with its much greater wealth and potential power is increasingly cowed by the shackles of metrics and adopts the dysfunctional and asymmetric relationships. It shows no signs of wishing to break out and control its own destiny. The British Empire flourished by \"divide and conquer\" and rewarding the heads of the controlled states. There is no need to divide academia \u2013 it's already divided.\n
\nAnd this is to the great disadvantage of the author. Authors should be exploring the potentials of the new media instead of being constrained to the vision of the Victorian printing press. Changing the role of the author is a revolutionary act, made more difficult because the author does not realise how shackled they are.\n
\nThat's one of the things we tackled in #beyondthepdf, where some of us were developing the next generation of authoring tools. A primary motivation is to remove the dependence on vendor-controlled formats and tools but completely based on Open Source tools. That's why I'm inviting Peter Sefton and Martin Fenner for a publishing hackfest in March. The fundamental medium is still HTML, but now enhanced to carry semantic payloads \u2013 and those under our control.\n
\nCan a handful of people change the world? We have to believe so and there are now an increasing number of examples where individuals have done exactly that.\n
\nSo, Peter, I don't have a good term for you. I'm using a general term of \"Open Scholarship\" but that includes much more. I thought of \"Open Authoring\" but OA clashes with Open Access. (BTW I always felt Access was a noun!). My best so far is \"Open Writing\" which doesn't do justice to the non-textual aspects. The theme of our hackweek will be \"Scholarly HTML\".\n
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","doi":"https://doi.org/10.59350/4ftp3-8w697","guid":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/?p=2886","language":"en","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","published_at":1297641600,"rid":"1304v-ka577","summary":"I have been struggling to put my thoughts in order about an underprivileged being \u2013 the scholarly author. This post is slightly ahead of a well-formed idea but it's prompted by Peter Suber's call for a new term for (?collaborative) authoring (http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/02-02-11.htm#contest ). Peter is striving for a term describing author-side openness and writes: I want this new term for several reasons.\u00a0","title":"Open Writing and Scholarly HTML","updated_at":1785505639,"url":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2011/02/14/open-writing-and-scholarly-html/","version":"v1"}},{"document":{"authors":[{"contributor_roles":[],"family":"Murray-Rust","given":"Peter","url":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3386-3972"}],"blog":{"authors":[{"name":"Peter Murray-Rust","url":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3386-3972"}],"community_id":"96352a16-f83d-4304-8117-fa0296024a61","created":1785456000,"current_feed_url":null,"description":"A Scientist and the Web.","doi":"https://doi.org/10.59350/pmr","favicon":"https://rogue-scholar.org/api/communities/96352a16-f83d-4304-8117-fa0296024a61/logo","feed_format":"application/rss+xml","feed_url":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/feed/index.xml","filter":null,"generator":"WordPress","home_page_url":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/","issn":null,"language":"eng","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","prefix":"10.59350","relative_url":null,"secure":true,"slug":"pmr","status":"active","subfield":"1606","title":"petermr's blog","updated":null,"use_api":null},"blog_name":"petermr's blog","blog_slug":"pmr","content_html":"#scholarlyhtml @ptsefton\n
\nWe're gearing up for our scholarly hackfest (March 12-13) \u2013 for details see http://www-pmr.ch.cam.ac.uk/wiki/Scholarly_HTML which will be updated and which includes a registration process. This is because it's over a weekend and we need to know who is in the department (for safety, etc.) This all worked fine in our first hackfest.\n
\nAs it's a hackfest the details are fluid but the known facts are:\n
\nPeter Sefton is here from midweek next week (9th March) to about 20th March
Martin Fenner is here over March 12/13 weekend\n
The general plan is to CREATE something during the time that PT is here. PT runs a world class team in University of Southern Queensland which has created a proven Open toolset based on WordPress for high quality scholarly documents (e.g. course materials, papers, theses). Martin has likewise pioneered many plugins for WordPress.\n
\nWe shall invite Peter and Martin to give presentations (but this will need to be on a weekday)
\nThe theme is Scholarly HTML with particular emphasis on data publication.\u00a0 It is to give authors the freedom to author as they wish, not as they are constrained but the recipient. A consequence is that all data should be semantic (i.e. understandable by machine). This means that bitmaps such as PNG should be replaced or augmented by \u2013 say \u2013 SVG or HTML5. Much of the impetus for the meeting came from \"Beyond the PDF\" run by Phil Bourne and Anita de Waard.\n
\nIn general we would like to be able to publish:\n
\nThere will be many ideas but as a focus we have come up with a unifying project. After discussion with Simon Hodson (JISC) and Brian McMahon (IUCr) we plan to implement the following idea in our JISCXYZ project and to start this during the hackfest. (Simon and Brian hope to be present for some of the time).
\nA data-journal for crystallography
\nEvery week Crystaleye aggregates (automatically) a few hundred structures and creates fully semantic CML. These are currently published as HTML pages with embedded CML and PNGs (http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/crystaleye) . A typical page (there are ca 250,000) is http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/crystaleye/summary/acta/c/2008/01-00/data/av3113/av3113sup1_I/av3113sup1_I.cif.summary.html (you can twiddle the molecule and create the unit cell by clicking). We wish to create a \"data publication\" from this material.\n
\nThe proposed data journal will automatically select ca 10 interesting structures per week and publish these as a Scholarly HTML blog. The hackfest will educate us to the best ways of representing these as Scholarly HTML and allowing the best modes of presentation. Because we shall be using a blog readers can comment on these structures using the blog mechanism and also add their own ideas about interesting structures that we have not included. In this way we hope to build up a sense of publication and comment.\n\t
\nThere is also the possibility for readers to submit their own structures which will be automatically validated during the submission process. We'll work very closely with the IUCr during this. We can add to the interest by having ranking tables for authors or contributors and having various \"records\" such as largest structure.\n
\nAssuming that the data journal works technically we will work with BrianM and colleagues to see if the format has value for IUCr.\n
\nSo \u2013 if you are interested, register. We can't pay travel or accommodation but will provide geek food during the weekend. If you can only come during the week let us know. I will be at JISC on 16th\u2026\n
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","doi":"https://doi.org/10.59350/cyjvw-jze96","guid":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/?p=2887","language":"en","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","published_at":1299196800,"rid":"9sjqf-jzc62","summary":"#scholarlyhtml @ptsefton We're gearing up for our scholarly hackfest (March 12-13) \u2013 for details see http://www-pmr.ch.cam.ac.uk/wiki/Scholarly_HTML which will be updated and which includes a registration process. This is because it's over a weekend and we need to know who is in the department (for safety, etc.) This all worked fine in our first hackfest.","title":"Scholarly HTML: hackfest and visit of Peter Sefton and Martin Fenner","updated_at":1785505637,"url":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2011/03/04/scholarly-html-hackfest-and-visit-of-peter-sefton-and-martin-fenner/","version":"v1"}},{"document":{"authors":[{"contributor_roles":[],"family":"Murray-Rust","given":"Peter","url":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3386-3972"}],"blog":{"authors":[{"name":"Peter Murray-Rust","url":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3386-3972"}],"community_id":"96352a16-f83d-4304-8117-fa0296024a61","created":1785456000,"current_feed_url":null,"description":"A Scientist and the Web.","doi":"https://doi.org/10.59350/pmr","favicon":"https://rogue-scholar.org/api/communities/96352a16-f83d-4304-8117-fa0296024a61/logo","feed_format":"application/rss+xml","feed_url":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/feed/index.xml","filter":null,"generator":"WordPress","home_page_url":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/","issn":null,"language":"eng","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","prefix":"10.59350","relative_url":null,"secure":true,"slug":"pmr","status":"active","subfield":"1606","title":"petermr's blog","updated":null,"use_api":null},"blog_name":"petermr's blog","blog_slug":"pmr","content_html":"#quixote #xmlcml\n
\nI am delighted to announce the first Quixote Conference http://quixote.wikispot.org/First_Quixote_Conference_-_22nd-23rd_March_2010 at Daresbury Laboratory. This is the outcome of all the work put in by the Quixote community and is\n
\nA meeting to create the first Open distributed repository for electronic simulations
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To explain a bit further. There are zillions \u2013 probably at least 10 million \u2013 computational chemistry calculations \"published\" each year (i.e referred to in scholarly publications) but almost no data is publicly available. Comp chem is 50+ years old, it's very well understood, and almost no data is published. [There are some collections \u2013 including our own DSpace @ cam \u2013 or log files and derived data but it's << 1% of what is published].\n
\nSo Quixote intends to change this. We've been building the components, and now we intend to bolt them together. Essentially we have the following components:\n
\nThe strategy is on a per-code basis. So let's say your code is called Foochem. Its input is something like:\n
\nAnd its output should retain all this and also include:\n
\nTo create this information needs (at least):\n
\nSo we are inviting experts in various codes. So far we have NWChem, QuantumEspresso, GAMESS-UK, GAMESS-US, DALTON, Turbomole, Gaussian. We hope to create dictionaries for them, parsers and documentation. This does not need to be complete \u2013 the parsers and XML-CML can be expanded when people have time and energy or a really boring cricket match.\n
\nIt's a hands-on meeting. You need to be reasonably proficient at running the software (i.e. you may need a few days' in advance). If anyone is interested, let Jens Thomas know. I think there are some places but it's up to Jens and colleagues at STFC.\n
\nLots of thanks to lots of people.\n
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","doi":"https://doi.org/10.59350/p3qqv-01q89","guid":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/?p=2888","language":"en","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","published_at":1299456000,"rid":"fxkvg-74479","summary":"#quixote #xmlcml I am delighted to announce the first Quixote Conference http://quixote.wikispot.org/First_Quixote_Conference_-_22nd-23rd_March_2010 at Daresbury Laboratory. This is the outcome of all the work put in by the Quixote community and is A meeting to create the first Open distributed repository for electronic simulations To explain a bit further.","title":"Compchem Quixote Workshop: to create the \"first Open distributed repository for electronic simulations\"","updated_at":1785505635,"url":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2011/03/07/compchem-quixote-workshop-to-create-the-first-open-distributed-repository-for-electronic-simulations/","version":"v1"}},{"document":{"authors":[{"contributor_roles":[],"family":"Murray-Rust","given":"Peter","url":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3386-3972"}],"blog":{"authors":[{"name":"Peter Murray-Rust","url":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3386-3972"}],"community_id":"96352a16-f83d-4304-8117-fa0296024a61","created":1785456000,"current_feed_url":null,"description":"A Scientist and the Web.","doi":"https://doi.org/10.59350/pmr","favicon":"https://rogue-scholar.org/api/communities/96352a16-f83d-4304-8117-fa0296024a61/logo","feed_format":"application/rss+xml","feed_url":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/feed/index.xml","filter":null,"generator":"WordPress","home_page_url":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/","issn":null,"language":"eng","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","prefix":"10.59350","relative_url":null,"secure":true,"slug":"pmr","status":"active","subfield":"1606","title":"petermr's blog","updated":null,"use_api":null},"blog_name":"petermr's blog","blog_slug":"pmr","content_html":"#scholarlyhtml\n
\nWe are gearing up for the weekend scholarly hackfest in Cambridge. Like all hackfests it is organised chaos. But we are assembling a range of top-class creators. They include:\n
\nSo far the following themes are emerging:\n
\nHere's Martin http://blogs.plos.org/mfenner/2011/03/07/the-trouble-with-bibliographies/. Some excerpts\u2026\n
\nUnfortunately allmost all bibliographies are in the wrong format. What you want is at least a direct link to the cited work using the DOI (if available), and a lot of journals do that. You don't want to have a link to PubMed using the PubMed ID\u00a0as the only option (as in PubMed Central), as this requires a few more mouseclicks to get to the fulltext article. And you don't want to go to an extra page, then use a link to search the PubMed database, and then use a few more mouseclicks to get to the fulltext article (something that could happen to you\u00a0with a PLoS journal).\u00a0
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A bibliography should really be made available in a downloadable format\u00a0such as\u00a0BibTeX. Unfortunately journal publishers \u2013 including Open Access publishers \u2013 in most cases don't see that they can provide a lot of value here without too much extra work. One of the few publishers offering this service is BioMed Central \u2013 feel free to mention other journals that do the same in the comments.
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And
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My idea for the hackfest is a tool that extracts all links (references and weblinks) out of a HTML document (or URL) and creates a bibliography. The generated\u00a0bibliography should be both in HTML (using the Citation Style Language ) and BibTex formats, and should ideally also support the Citation Typing Ontology (CiTO) and COinS \u2013\u00a0 a standard to embed bibliographic metadata in HTML. I will use PHP as a programming language and will try to build both a generic tool and something that can work as a WordPress plugin. Obviously I will not start from scratch, but will reuse several alrady existing libraries. Any feedback or help for this project is much appreciated.
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If I had a tool with which I could create my own bibliographies (and in the formats I want), I would no longer care so much about journals not offering this service. One big problem would still persist, and that is that most subscription journals wouldn't allow the redistrubition of the bibliographies to their papers. A single citation can't have a copyright, but a compilation of citations can. I'm sure we will also discuss this topic at the workshop, as Peter Murray-Rust is\u00a0one of the\u00a0biggest proponents of Open Bibliographic Data.
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We are able to support this through an EPSRC \"follow-up\" grant \u2013 Pathways to Impact \u2013 whose purpose is to disseminate what we have already achieved. This hackfest builds on OSCAR and several JISC projects (who are also supporting some of the group at Cambridge).\n
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If you can understand that it means two things:\n
\n#jiscopenbib\n
\nBibliographic Data are the lifeblood of scholarship. They tell us how to find scholarly artefacts and to recognise them when we've found them. The journal names, the authors, the pages. They are as exciting as streetnames and housenumbers.\n
\nWhich are exciting. Maps are exciting and bibliography is the map of scholarship. It's not the complete map \u2013 but the skeleton. The framework to which other properties are added.\n
\nAnd the question I have been chasing for some months is whether they are Open\u2026 Can I make a list of bibliographic data and publish them Openly?\n
\nMost people I ask mumble. But two days ago Eefke Smit of the STM Publishers assoc rang me and we talked a lot about what was Open and what was not. The problem is that many things are not clear and Open to interpretation. And so it comes down to \"it all depends on\".
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Which sometimes it does. The problem is that software can't make that sort of judgment. It works on Boolean Logic \u2013 you can, or you can't. We didn't resolve all the questions, but Eefke got back very rapidly and here's her reply.\n
\nP: Thank you very much for a full reply. This is very helpful.
\nI am copying this in to the Open Bibliography list. [PMR] For their background I have been exploring with Eefke and the STM Publishers association whether text-mining was allowable and whether bibliographic data is copyrightable. Eefke gives a clear answer to the second so I am posting this on this list. I think it now makes possible a lot of very valuable things with Open Bibliographic Data.
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On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Eefke Smit <eefkesmi@xs4all.nl> wrote:
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As promised, I would sort out your question about the openness of bibliographies. You made quite clear in our conversation that you are not particularly fond of 'it depends' answers. So I fear you may find the following answer slightly disappointing, because also for bibliographies the answer to the question how open they are, depends on what your regard to be elements of a bibliography.
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We\u00a0 have addressed this in \"Principles of Open Bibliographic Data\" http://openbiblio.net/principles/
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To start with the simplest elements that are indeed open and considered 'facts' hence copyright free: article title; authors of article; journal title; volume-issue information; and dates of receipt/publication. These are all considered to be facts and cannot be copyrighted.
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We have essentially covered these in
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Core data: names and identifiers of author(s) and editor(s), titles, publisher information, publication date and place, identification of parent work (e.g. a journal), page information, URIs.
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I think this is entirely in line with you and your STM colleagues and this agreement is an extremely important step forward.
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But nowadays people sometimes include much more into bibliographies, for example images, tables, abstracts, even chemical structures. Bibliographic data can include a number of different kinds of fields and information, including thesauri, classifications like chemistry structures, etc., so there can be some information that is copyrightable or systems that are tied into copyright or trademark protected content.\u00a0
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Precisely what that is does indeed \"depend\". Our list of secondary bibliographic data overlaps greatly with yours. I have highlighted the components that I would believe would be uncopyrightable.
\nSecondary data: format of work, non-web identifiers (ISBN, LCCN, OCLC number etc.), an indication of rights associated with a work, information on sponsorship (e.g. funding), information about carrier type, extent and size information, administrative data (last modified etc.), relevant links (to wikipedia, google books, amazon etc.), table of contents, links to digitized parts of a work (tables of content, registers, bibliographies etc.), addresses and other contact details about the author(s), cover images, abstracts, reviews, summaries, subject headings, assigned keywords, classification notation, user-generated tags, exemplar data (number of holdings, call number), \u2026
\nThis does not mean that the others were by default copyrightable, but we know of places where people have asserted rights over some of them.
\nI think you and I differ about whether tables and graphs are copyrightable in this context. I would concede that images which contained creative work were copyrightable but that images representing factual information (e.g. chemical structures) were not copyrightable. For example it would be foolish to be unable to communicate a chemical structure to someone because you might break copyright. There are millions of such images on suppliers bottles and witholding this information means that people could and would die.
\nI also asked about whom I should contact within a publisher to get a definitive answer from that organization (as most of the time I get no reply).
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On your question whom to contact for permissions \u00a0as a reader, I would advise you to address the 'rights and permissions departments' or 'licensing departments' at the relevant publisher houses or else enquire via your local license holder (Cambridge library) who their contacts are. Very often these are regionally assigned, so a general list would be difficult to compose.
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This seems to confirm that it can therefore be quite difficult to get the right person within a large publishing house and get an answer.
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The STM members can be found on www.stm-assoc.org
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Hope this information is of help to you,
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Yes it is very useful.
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Kindest regards, Eefke Smit.
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So this is very useful. We agree on this. Bibliographic Data is FREE. As in Speech. Like OpenStreetmap we can start building the bibliographic map of the world.
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With the release of Chem4Word (sorry Chemistry Add-in for Word) we've reached an important milestone in the development of CML. CML is about 16 years old (Henry will give a better estimate \u2013 but I think we can reasonably date it from our trip to WWW1 and henry's subsequent trip to WWW2). I think it's reasonably come of age and can now be regarded as the de facto approach to representing semantic chemistry. And part of the purpose of PMR Symposium #pmrsymp was to be able to make that assertion. We didn't actually have much about CML per se, but the working code was all based on CML and we shall be publishing the justification in a special issue of BMC.\n
\nIt's not been easy to make that statement until now. It needs at least:\n
\nCML supports five main subdomains and there is extensive experience and code in all:\n
\nAnd it's worth pointing out that CML can be used as a computational language \u2013 i.e. it can be self-modifying as in polymer markup language.\n
\nI owe a huge debt to lots of people and CML really is a community effort, with strong moderation. We wouldn't be here without the Blue Obelisk, eScience/GRID, and the bioscience community. We're open to any new ventures and ideas \u2013 incorporation in existing codes, chemical publication, artificial intelligence, etc.\n
\nCML is ready for universal use within chemistry.\n
\nJoe Townsend is coordinating much of the effort. I will be blogging at regular intervals. We hope to get semantic chemical blogging (e.g. in WordPress) very soon.
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\nLast August I sat down in a pub (The Panton Arms) in Cambridge to discuss Open Data with Peter Murray-Rust, Jordan Hatcher and others. The event was the first of what Murray-Rust has dubbed the Panton Discussions. Murray-Rust is a Reader in Molecular Informatics at Cambridge University. The Panton Arms regularly plays host to members of the University Chemistry Department, so it was an obvious place to meet. This special relationship between Cambridge chemists and The Panton Arms is doubtless a consequence of the pub being just down the road from the Chemistry Department.
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And perhaps Richard is unaware that Panton Street (between the Chemistry Dept and the pub) is also the home of the Open Knowledge Foundation. Indeed you are quite likely to bump into Rufus and his collaborators in the street. Just last week we had a long intense discussion outside the OKF with the wind whistling through our clothers\n
\nHowever, it could be that The Panton Arms is an appropriate location for discussing things like copyright, Open Data, Open Access, Creative Commons and the Public Domain for another reason.
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The Panton Arms, and Panton Street (in which the pub is located), are associated with the Panton family. And in 1806 \"Polite\" Tommy Panton succeeded in having Parliament pass the Barnwell Enclosures Act, leading to the enclosure of what was then farmland.
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I was completely unaware of this \u2013 and as I said I find it unsettling. But what is done is done, and often good has been built on the site of evil. Perhaps we need an exorcism. I assume Rufus is aware of this.\n
\nToday many argue that the frequent and increasingly maximalist changes made to copyright laws represent a new enclosure movement. And it is partly in response to that process that we have seen a proliferation of \"free\" and \"open\" movements like Open Data and Open Access \u2013 with the aim of preventing, or at least mitigating, the new enclosures.
\n
Richard is right. I use the terms \"digital gold rush\" or \"digital land grab\". I find it intensely frustrating that so many people are not aware of the problem and when told do not care. Academia can be very arrogant \u2013 individuals survive on the handouts from the robber barons while the general citizenry is unaware of the problem.\n
\nWe are too protected. A non-university healthcare professional is debarred from reading the literature \u2013 perhaps 90-95% of it. Non-academics are not our inferiors that we shouldn't worry about. Yet I frequently hear \"oh we can't let non-experts read that\" and similar. This is just as insulting as the many insults of human ownership, gender, race and so on that we have fought over the centuries.\n
\nWe are entering the century of the information age. It must not become the century of information slavery.
","doi":"https://doi.org/10.59350/1pj02-0xx51","guid":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/?p=2882","language":"en","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","published_at":1297036800,"rid":"8t0q7-ph898","summary":"Richard Poynder has just blogged about our Panton discussion which has been released as audio and we hope a transcript RSN. But the main reason for this post is that I have learnt something new and unsettling about our adoption of the name \"Panton\" for our outputs \u2013 we now have Panton Principles, Panton Discussions and Panton Papers.","title":"Panton, Panton, Panton","updated_at":1785505645,"url":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2011/02/07/panton-panton-panton/","version":"v1"},{"authors":[{"contributor_roles":[],"family":"Murray-Rust","given":"Peter","url":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3386-3972"}],"blog":{"authors":[{"name":"Peter Murray-Rust","url":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3386-3972"}],"community_id":"96352a16-f83d-4304-8117-fa0296024a61","created":1785456000,"current_feed_url":null,"description":"A Scientist and the Web.","doi":"https://doi.org/10.59350/pmr","favicon":"https://rogue-scholar.org/api/communities/96352a16-f83d-4304-8117-fa0296024a61/logo","feed_format":"application/rss+xml","feed_url":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/feed/index.xml","filter":null,"generator":"WordPress","home_page_url":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/","issn":null,"language":"eng","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","prefix":"10.59350","relative_url":null,"secure":true,"slug":"pmr","status":"active","subfield":"1606","title":"petermr's blog","updated":null,"use_api":null},"blog_name":"petermr's blog","blog_slug":"pmr","content_html":"The momentum of \"Beyond the PDF\" continues and we are planning a hackfest in Cambridge in March to build scholarly publishing tools. I floated the idea yesterday http://groups.google.com/group/beyond-the-pdf/browse_thread/thread/af2e6a4d43c361f8 (one of the many discussion threads you can read). The details are coalescing to the following:\n
\nMartin , Peter and others (including me) formed a \"Writing\" group as part of BtPDF and came up with a (complete) design for scholarly authoring (on the diagram BTPDF is code name for the system)\n
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(Copyright PMR, CC-BY; used without explicit permission of the author).\n
\nWe believe that we have enough open source tools, volunteers and service providers to create a compelling prototype. So during about 11-20 March there will be intense activity in Cambridge putting it together. The rough timetable is:\n
\nAttendees from last hackfest included Ben O'Steen, Rufus and random OKF'ers, Chris Gutteridge and Dave Flanders.\n
\nAnyone is welcome but let us know beforehand for safety/security (it's a chemistry dept). As we get possible attendees we'll publish a list. This is not a sleep-over hackfest (it's a chemistry dept) but there are lots of good pubs.\n
\nIt is a hackfest, not a tutorial. So be prepared to get your fingers dirty. You don't have to be a coder \u2013 we'll welcome:\n
\nAnd more\n
\nThe last hackfest was 2 days and the achievements were sensational. This one will be even more so. We'll provide geek food. The only problem is burn-out.\n
\nWe are calling this \"Scholarly HTML\". It will bring power back to the authors. Too much of our scholarly communication is controlled by digital neo-colonialists. HTML was and is an agent of revolution and democracy. This hackfest is in that tradition.\n
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","doi":"https://doi.org/10.59350/qrhyv-3c967","guid":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/?p=2884","image":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2011/02/020911_0836_ScholarlyHT1.png","language":"en","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","published_at":1297209600,"rid":"h6ea3-rjx54","summary":"The momentum of \"Beyond the PDF\" continues and we are planning a hackfest in Cambridge in March to build scholarly publishing tools. I floated the idea yesterday http://groups.google.com/group/beyond-the-pdf/browse_thread/thread/af2e6a4d43c361f8 (one of the many discussion threads you can read). The details are coalescing to the following: Peter Sefton (http://ptsefton.com/) will visit us for about 11-20 March 2011.","title":"Scholarly HTML Hackfest Cambridge UK March","updated_at":1785505643,"url":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2011/02/09/scholarly-html-hackfest-cambridge-uk-march/","version":"v1"},{"authors":[{"contributor_roles":[],"family":"Murray-Rust","given":"Peter","url":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3386-3972"}],"blog":{"authors":[{"name":"Peter Murray-Rust","url":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3386-3972"}],"community_id":"96352a16-f83d-4304-8117-fa0296024a61","created":1785456000,"current_feed_url":null,"description":"A Scientist and the Web.","doi":"https://doi.org/10.59350/pmr","favicon":"https://rogue-scholar.org/api/communities/96352a16-f83d-4304-8117-fa0296024a61/logo","feed_format":"application/rss+xml","feed_url":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/feed/index.xml","filter":null,"generator":"WordPress","home_page_url":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/","issn":null,"language":"eng","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","prefix":"10.59350","relative_url":null,"secure":true,"slug":"pmr","status":"active","subfield":"1606","title":"petermr's blog","updated":null,"use_api":null},"blog_name":"petermr's blog","blog_slug":"pmr","content_html":"[From Alan Ball]\n
\nThe Digital Curation Centre (DCC) has published the second in its series of
How-to Guides: 'How to License Research Data' by Alex Ball of the DCC, in
association with JISC Legal. The guide explains why licensing data is
important, what licensing options are available to researchers, and how to go
about attaching a licence to a dataset.
The DCC's How-to Guides offer practical introductions for those who need more
than the high-level basic awareness given in DCC briefing papers, but less than
the in-depth coverage given in the Curation Reference Manual. This guide is
aimed at principal investigators, researchers, and those who provide access to
research data through a data centre, repository or archive.
'How to License Research Data' is available for online reading or download
from http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/how-guides/license-research-data
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This is a valuable medium-level overview of the different legal aspects of publishing data. Data, of course, is now found in many disciplines , not just science. At the very fine-grained level, data is extraordinarily complex, but at a high level it can be very easy.\n
\nIf you are a scientist and haven't thought about data licences, then consider the value of making your data available to others. That's anathema to many traditional scientists \u2013 and an attitude that will survive for some time. There are moral, ethical, political, social and utilitarian reasons why you should consider making your data Open. [There are cases where you cannot open data \u2013 human privacy, breeding grounds of rare species, etc. And often the decision involves other people. But at least consider it.]\n
\nI am not a fan of licences. They are complex, legal algorithms do not map onto any formal system of mathematics, and they are subject to wide variation by country, date and general fuzz. That's why wherever possible you should adopt the Panton Principles (www.pantonprinciples.org/
\n) and formally dedicate your data to the Public Domain (PDDL or CC0). The complexity of combining even two licences is far greater than analysing a terabyte of multivariate data for patterns. Multiple licences make data recombination very hard.\n
AND NEVER USE NON-COMMERCIAL LICENCES.\n
\nThe only people this hinders and hurts are people like you.
","doi":"https://doi.org/10.59350/77tax-mbr11","guid":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/?p=2885","language":"en","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","published_at":1297209600,"rid":"a2rhb-9q197","summary":"[From Alan Ball] The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) has published the second in its series of How-to Guides: 'How to License Research Data' by Alex Ball of the DCC, in association with JISC Legal. ","title":"Licensing Data","updated_at":1785505642,"url":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2011/02/09/licensing-data/","version":"v1"},{"authors":[{"contributor_roles":[],"family":"Murray-Rust","given":"Peter","url":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3386-3972"}],"blog":{"authors":[{"name":"Peter Murray-Rust","url":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3386-3972"}],"community_id":"96352a16-f83d-4304-8117-fa0296024a61","created":1785456000,"current_feed_url":null,"description":"A Scientist and the Web.","doi":"https://doi.org/10.59350/pmr","favicon":"https://rogue-scholar.org/api/communities/96352a16-f83d-4304-8117-fa0296024a61/logo","feed_format":"application/rss+xml","feed_url":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/feed/index.xml","filter":null,"generator":"WordPress","home_page_url":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/","issn":null,"language":"eng","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","prefix":"10.59350","relative_url":null,"secure":true,"slug":"pmr","status":"active","subfield":"1606","title":"petermr's blog","updated":null,"use_api":null},"blog_name":"petermr's blog","blog_slug":"pmr","content_html":"I have been struggling to put my thoughts in order about an underprivileged being \u2013 the scholarly author. This post is slightly ahead of a well-formed idea but it's prompted by Peter Suber's call for a new term for (?collaborative) authoring (http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/02-02-11.htm#contest ). Peter is striving for a term describing author-side openness and writes:\n
\nI want this new term for several reasons.\u00a0 For example, some OA resources which originally lacked author-side openness add it later, and I (and they) need a succinct way to describe what they've done.\u00a0 Sometimes I speak about OA to audiences that know wikis better than they know scholarly journals, and I'd like to say that OA articles have reader-side openness but generally don't have author-side openness.\u00a0 Likewise, I want a short and non-pejorative way to say that Wikipedia is not the poster-child of the OA movement.\u00a0
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I have been increasingly concerned about the increasing restrictions and constraints on author freedom. In the Internet age author should feel relieved of its shackles and instead scholarly authors are burdened with unnecessary constraints. Part, but only part, are of their own making \u2013 chasing the chimera of publishing prestige rather than following a more natural course of saying what they want to say. (\"You can publish there \u2013 it's not got an impact factor yet\").\n
\nA typical example today. My co-author \u2013 acting as amanuensis \u2013 grizzled that she had to reset the references in Harvard format. This is about as rewarding as whitewashing coal. It has only one purpose \u2013 to save the publisher work at the expense of the author doing the work. There are, of course, much better ways of doing references/citations \u2013 and in Open Bibliography we are hoping to develop some of them. But scholarly publishing is \u2013 bizarrely \u2013 one of the least innovative activities in the information age.\n
\nSo we need to give back freedom to authors. I think I'm taking a slightly different tack from Peter but the motivations are broadly the same. When NCSA made HTML \u2013 and more importantly HTTP \u2013 accessible in 1993 it changed the world. The message was that ordinary people could publish. I could set up a server. A little arcane, but until then I had assumed that servers were only possible for those who bought expensive tools from vendors. NCSA httpd was an instrument of liberation. Anyone \u2013 anyone \u2013 who had access to port 80 (and that wasn't difficult in those days) could set up a server.\n
\nAnd tell the world anything.\n
\nHTML could be authored in any simple text editor. No special tools. And you didn't even have to get it right. Broken HTML was rendered as best as possible. For those who didn't experience 1993/4, Wordsworth captured the spirit in\n
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But to be young was very heaven!
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Not in Utopia, subterranean fields,
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Or some secreted island, Heaven knows where!
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But in the very world, which is the world
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Of all of us,\u2013the place where in the end
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We find our happiness, or not at all!
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\nOf course it couldn't last, but there was the sense of overthrowing the established order \u2013 that everything was possible.\n
\nHTML is truly an agent of revolution and liberation.\n
\nBy contrast the publishing industry with its tools such as double-column PDF has trapped us in a digital neo-colonialism which I am struggling to understand. Academia, with its much greater wealth and potential power is increasingly cowed by the shackles of metrics and adopts the dysfunctional and asymmetric relationships. It shows no signs of wishing to break out and control its own destiny. The British Empire flourished by \"divide and conquer\" and rewarding the heads of the controlled states. There is no need to divide academia \u2013 it's already divided.\n
\nAnd this is to the great disadvantage of the author. Authors should be exploring the potentials of the new media instead of being constrained to the vision of the Victorian printing press. Changing the role of the author is a revolutionary act, made more difficult because the author does not realise how shackled they are.\n
\nThat's one of the things we tackled in #beyondthepdf, where some of us were developing the next generation of authoring tools. A primary motivation is to remove the dependence on vendor-controlled formats and tools but completely based on Open Source tools. That's why I'm inviting Peter Sefton and Martin Fenner for a publishing hackfest in March. The fundamental medium is still HTML, but now enhanced to carry semantic payloads \u2013 and those under our control.\n
\nCan a handful of people change the world? We have to believe so and there are now an increasing number of examples where individuals have done exactly that.\n
\nSo, Peter, I don't have a good term for you. I'm using a general term of \"Open Scholarship\" but that includes much more. I thought of \"Open Authoring\" but OA clashes with Open Access. (BTW I always felt Access was a noun!). My best so far is \"Open Writing\" which doesn't do justice to the non-textual aspects. The theme of our hackweek will be \"Scholarly HTML\".\n
\nHTH\n
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","doi":"https://doi.org/10.59350/4ftp3-8w697","guid":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/?p=2886","language":"en","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","published_at":1297641600,"rid":"1304v-ka577","summary":"I have been struggling to put my thoughts in order about an underprivileged being \u2013 the scholarly author. This post is slightly ahead of a well-formed idea but it's prompted by Peter Suber's call for a new term for (?collaborative) authoring (http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/02-02-11.htm#contest ). Peter is striving for a term describing author-side openness and writes: I want this new term for several reasons.\u00a0","title":"Open Writing and Scholarly HTML","updated_at":1785505639,"url":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2011/02/14/open-writing-and-scholarly-html/","version":"v1"},{"authors":[{"contributor_roles":[],"family":"Murray-Rust","given":"Peter","url":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3386-3972"}],"blog":{"authors":[{"name":"Peter Murray-Rust","url":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3386-3972"}],"community_id":"96352a16-f83d-4304-8117-fa0296024a61","created":1785456000,"current_feed_url":null,"description":"A Scientist and the Web.","doi":"https://doi.org/10.59350/pmr","favicon":"https://rogue-scholar.org/api/communities/96352a16-f83d-4304-8117-fa0296024a61/logo","feed_format":"application/rss+xml","feed_url":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/feed/index.xml","filter":null,"generator":"WordPress","home_page_url":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/","issn":null,"language":"eng","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","prefix":"10.59350","relative_url":null,"secure":true,"slug":"pmr","status":"active","subfield":"1606","title":"petermr's blog","updated":null,"use_api":null},"blog_name":"petermr's blog","blog_slug":"pmr","content_html":"#scholarlyhtml @ptsefton\n
\nWe're gearing up for our scholarly hackfest (March 12-13) \u2013 for details see http://www-pmr.ch.cam.ac.uk/wiki/Scholarly_HTML which will be updated and which includes a registration process. This is because it's over a weekend and we need to know who is in the department (for safety, etc.) This all worked fine in our first hackfest.\n
\nAs it's a hackfest the details are fluid but the known facts are:\n
\nPeter Sefton is here from midweek next week (9th March) to about 20th March
Martin Fenner is here over March 12/13 weekend\n
The general plan is to CREATE something during the time that PT is here. PT runs a world class team in University of Southern Queensland which has created a proven Open toolset based on WordPress for high quality scholarly documents (e.g. course materials, papers, theses). Martin has likewise pioneered many plugins for WordPress.\n
\nWe shall invite Peter and Martin to give presentations (but this will need to be on a weekday)
\nThe theme is Scholarly HTML with particular emphasis on data publication.\u00a0 It is to give authors the freedom to author as they wish, not as they are constrained but the recipient. A consequence is that all data should be semantic (i.e. understandable by machine). This means that bitmaps such as PNG should be replaced or augmented by \u2013 say \u2013 SVG or HTML5. Much of the impetus for the meeting came from \"Beyond the PDF\" run by Phil Bourne and Anita de Waard.\n
\nIn general we would like to be able to publish:\n
\nThere will be many ideas but as a focus we have come up with a unifying project. After discussion with Simon Hodson (JISC) and Brian McMahon (IUCr) we plan to implement the following idea in our JISCXYZ project and to start this during the hackfest. (Simon and Brian hope to be present for some of the time).
\nA data-journal for crystallography
\nEvery week Crystaleye aggregates (automatically) a few hundred structures and creates fully semantic CML. These are currently published as HTML pages with embedded CML and PNGs (http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/crystaleye) . A typical page (there are ca 250,000) is http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/crystaleye/summary/acta/c/2008/01-00/data/av3113/av3113sup1_I/av3113sup1_I.cif.summary.html (you can twiddle the molecule and create the unit cell by clicking). We wish to create a \"data publication\" from this material.\n
\nThe proposed data journal will automatically select ca 10 interesting structures per week and publish these as a Scholarly HTML blog. The hackfest will educate us to the best ways of representing these as Scholarly HTML and allowing the best modes of presentation. Because we shall be using a blog readers can comment on these structures using the blog mechanism and also add their own ideas about interesting structures that we have not included. In this way we hope to build up a sense of publication and comment.\n\t
\nThere is also the possibility for readers to submit their own structures which will be automatically validated during the submission process. We'll work very closely with the IUCr during this. We can add to the interest by having ranking tables for authors or contributors and having various \"records\" such as largest structure.\n
\nAssuming that the data journal works technically we will work with BrianM and colleagues to see if the format has value for IUCr.\n
\nSo \u2013 if you are interested, register. We can't pay travel or accommodation but will provide geek food during the weekend. If you can only come during the week let us know. I will be at JISC on 16th\u2026\n
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","doi":"https://doi.org/10.59350/cyjvw-jze96","guid":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/?p=2887","language":"en","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","published_at":1299196800,"rid":"9sjqf-jzc62","summary":"#scholarlyhtml @ptsefton We're gearing up for our scholarly hackfest (March 12-13) \u2013 for details see http://www-pmr.ch.cam.ac.uk/wiki/Scholarly_HTML which will be updated and which includes a registration process. This is because it's over a weekend and we need to know who is in the department (for safety, etc.) This all worked fine in our first hackfest.","title":"Scholarly HTML: hackfest and visit of Peter Sefton and Martin Fenner","updated_at":1785505637,"url":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2011/03/04/scholarly-html-hackfest-and-visit-of-peter-sefton-and-martin-fenner/","version":"v1"},{"authors":[{"contributor_roles":[],"family":"Murray-Rust","given":"Peter","url":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3386-3972"}],"blog":{"authors":[{"name":"Peter Murray-Rust","url":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3386-3972"}],"community_id":"96352a16-f83d-4304-8117-fa0296024a61","created":1785456000,"current_feed_url":null,"description":"A Scientist and the Web.","doi":"https://doi.org/10.59350/pmr","favicon":"https://rogue-scholar.org/api/communities/96352a16-f83d-4304-8117-fa0296024a61/logo","feed_format":"application/rss+xml","feed_url":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/feed/index.xml","filter":null,"generator":"WordPress","home_page_url":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/","issn":null,"language":"eng","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","prefix":"10.59350","relative_url":null,"secure":true,"slug":"pmr","status":"active","subfield":"1606","title":"petermr's blog","updated":null,"use_api":null},"blog_name":"petermr's blog","blog_slug":"pmr","content_html":"#quixote #xmlcml\n
\nI am delighted to announce the first Quixote Conference http://quixote.wikispot.org/First_Quixote_Conference_-_22nd-23rd_March_2010 at Daresbury Laboratory. This is the outcome of all the work put in by the Quixote community and is\n
\nA meeting to create the first Open distributed repository for electronic simulations
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To explain a bit further. There are zillions \u2013 probably at least 10 million \u2013 computational chemistry calculations \"published\" each year (i.e referred to in scholarly publications) but almost no data is publicly available. Comp chem is 50+ years old, it's very well understood, and almost no data is published. [There are some collections \u2013 including our own DSpace @ cam \u2013 or log files and derived data but it's << 1% of what is published].\n
\nSo Quixote intends to change this. We've been building the components, and now we intend to bolt them together. Essentially we have the following components:\n
\nThe strategy is on a per-code basis. So let's say your code is called Foochem. Its input is something like:\n
\nAnd its output should retain all this and also include:\n
\nTo create this information needs (at least):\n
\nSo we are inviting experts in various codes. So far we have NWChem, QuantumEspresso, GAMESS-UK, GAMESS-US, DALTON, Turbomole, Gaussian. We hope to create dictionaries for them, parsers and documentation. This does not need to be complete \u2013 the parsers and XML-CML can be expanded when people have time and energy or a really boring cricket match.\n
\nIt's a hands-on meeting. You need to be reasonably proficient at running the software (i.e. you may need a few days' in advance). If anyone is interested, let Jens Thomas know. I think there are some places but it's up to Jens and colleagues at STFC.\n
\nLots of thanks to lots of people.\n
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","doi":"https://doi.org/10.59350/p3qqv-01q89","guid":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/?p=2888","language":"en","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","published_at":1299456000,"rid":"fxkvg-74479","summary":"#quixote #xmlcml I am delighted to announce the first Quixote Conference http://quixote.wikispot.org/First_Quixote_Conference_-_22nd-23rd_March_2010 at Daresbury Laboratory. This is the outcome of all the work put in by the Quixote community and is A meeting to create the first Open distributed repository for electronic simulations To explain a bit further.","title":"Compchem Quixote Workshop: to create the \"first Open distributed repository for electronic simulations\"","updated_at":1785505635,"url":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2011/03/07/compchem-quixote-workshop-to-create-the-first-open-distributed-repository-for-electronic-simulations/","version":"v1"},{"authors":[{"contributor_roles":[],"family":"Murray-Rust","given":"Peter","url":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3386-3972"}],"blog":{"authors":[{"name":"Peter Murray-Rust","url":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3386-3972"}],"community_id":"96352a16-f83d-4304-8117-fa0296024a61","created":1785456000,"current_feed_url":null,"description":"A Scientist and the Web.","doi":"https://doi.org/10.59350/pmr","favicon":"https://rogue-scholar.org/api/communities/96352a16-f83d-4304-8117-fa0296024a61/logo","feed_format":"application/rss+xml","feed_url":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/feed/index.xml","filter":null,"generator":"WordPress","home_page_url":"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/","issn":null,"language":"eng","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","prefix":"10.59350","relative_url":null,"secure":true,"slug":"pmr","status":"active","subfield":"1606","title":"petermr's blog","updated":null,"use_api":null},"blog_name":"petermr's blog","blog_slug":"pmr","content_html":"#scholarlyhtml\n
\nWe are gearing up for the weekend scholarly hackfest in Cambridge. Like all hackfests it is organised chaos. But we are assembling a range of top-class creators. They include:\n
\nSo far the following themes are emerging:\n
\nHere's Martin http://blogs.plos.org/mfenner/2011/03/07/the-trouble-with-bibliographies/. Some excerpts\u2026\n
\nUnfortunately allmost all bibliographies are in the wrong format. What you want is at least a direct link to the cited work using the DOI (if available), and a lot of journals do that. You don't want to have a link to PubMed using the PubMed ID\u00a0as the only option (as in PubMed Central), as this requires a few more mouseclicks to get to the fulltext article. And you don't want to go to an extra page, then use a link to search the PubMed database, and then use a few more mouseclicks to get to the fulltext article (something that could happen to you\u00a0with a PLoS journal).\u00a0
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A bibliography should really be made available in a downloadable format\u00a0such as\u00a0BibTeX. Unfortunately journal publishers \u2013 including Open Access publishers \u2013 in most cases don't see that they can provide a lot of value here without too much extra work. One of the few publishers offering this service is BioMed Central \u2013 feel free to mention other journals that do the same in the comments.
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And
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My idea for the hackfest is a tool that extracts all links (references and weblinks) out of a HTML document (or URL) and creates a bibliography. The generated\u00a0bibliography should be both in HTML (using the Citation Style Language ) and BibTex formats, and should ideally also support the Citation Typing Ontology (CiTO) and COinS \u2013\u00a0 a standard to embed bibliographic metadata in HTML. I will use PHP as a programming language and will try to build both a generic tool and something that can work as a WordPress plugin. Obviously I will not start from scratch, but will reuse several alrady existing libraries. Any feedback or help for this project is much appreciated.
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If I had a tool with which I could create my own bibliographies (and in the formats I want), I would no longer care so much about journals not offering this service. One big problem would still persist, and that is that most subscription journals wouldn't allow the redistrubition of the bibliographies to their papers. A single citation can't have a copyright, but a compilation of citations can. I'm sure we will also discuss this topic at the workshop, as Peter Murray-Rust is\u00a0one of the\u00a0biggest proponents of Open Bibliographic Data.
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We are able to support this through an EPSRC \"follow-up\" grant \u2013 Pathways to Impact \u2013 whose purpose is to disseminate what we have already achieved. This hackfest builds on OSCAR and several JISC projects (who are also supporting some of the group at Cambridge).\n
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