science publishing

Scholarly HTML would be nice, but...

13 January, 2010

I'm quite interested in the idea of Scholarly HTML, as espoused in Pete Sefton's blog, and I've commented on some of Peter Murray Rust's hamburger PDF comments previously (although I do think a lot of people confuse wild PDF with well-made, should one say Scholarly PDF). I've always been slightly worried by one thing though.

More activity on semantic publishing

17 December, 2009

If you saw tweets from @cardcc today, you might realise I’ve been very interested in a couple of recent developments in semantic publishing. I wrote earlier about linking data to journal articles, including David Shotton’s adventures in semantic publishing. David’s work was one of those included in the review article in the Biochemical Journal by Attwod, Kell, McDermott et al (2009).

New nature corresponding author policy on data

4 May, 2009

Thanks to Michael Jubb for pointing me to the editorial outlining the new Nature policy:

Data publishing and the fully-supported paper

6 November, 2008

Cameron Neylon’s Science in the Open blog is always good value. He’s been posting installments of a paper on aspects of open science, and there’s lots of good stuff there. Of course, Cameron’s focus is indeed on open science rather than data, but data form a large part of that vision. In part 3: “Making data available faces similar challenges but here they are more profound. At least when publishing in an open access journal it can be counted as a paper.

Science publishing, workflow, PDF and Text Mining

2 May, 2008

… or, A Semantic Web for science?It’s clear that the million or so scientific articles published each year contain lots of science. Most of that science is accessible to scientists in the relevant discipline. Some may be accessible to interested amateurs. Some may also be accessible (perhaps in a different sense) to robots that can extract science facts and data from articles, and record them in databases.