semantic web

Linked data and staff contact pages

21 January, 2010 | in Blogs

You may remember that I am interested in the extent to which we should use Semantic Web (or Linked Data) on the DCC web site.

More activity on semantic publishing

17 December, 2009 | in Blogs

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).

DCC web site and Linked Data

14 August, 2009 | in Blogs

We at the DCC are in the early stages of refreshing our web site (www.dcc.ac.uk). Nothing you can see yet, but we're talking to a few consultants about what and how we can do better. The ones we have spoken to so far seem pretty clued up on content management systems, and even on web 2.0 approaches. But questions about the role of the Semantic Web or Linked Data get blank looks.

Semantic Web of Linked Data for Research?

24 July, 2009 | in Blogs

In the beginning was the World Wide Web. Then we were going to have the Semantic Web. (Then we had Web 2.0, but that’s another story.) But maybe the Semantic Web wasn’t semantic enough for some, so they changed the name to Linked Data, and it began to take off a little more. Now there’s an argument on whether all linked data are Linked Data!

Strand B1 research papers at IDCC4

9 December, 2008 | in Blogs

In the morning parallel session B at the International Digital Curation Conference, the ever-interesting Jane Hunter from the University of Queensland began the session speaking about her Aus-e-Lit project (linked to Austlit) The project is based on FRBR, and offers federated search interfaces to related distributed databases.

Wilbanks on the Control Fallacy: How Radical Sharing out-competes

8 December, 2008 | in Blogs

Closing the first day of the International Digital Curation Conference, and as a prelude to a substantial audience discussion, John Wilbanks from Science Commons outlined his vision and his group’s plans and achievements. His slides are available on Slideshare and from the IDCC web site.

IPR and science data integration

15 July, 2008 | in Blogs

Preparing for the JISC Innovation Forum, I have been reading John Wilbanks’ comment piece (Wilbanks, 2008) tracing the reasoning behind the Science Commons approach of abandoning Creative Commons-style licensing for integratable data, in favour of a dedication to the public domain plus codified community norms. To be honest, I was gob-smacked when this came about; it seemed that a desirable outcome (CC-like licensing for data) had been abandoned.

Semantic web on the Today programme

9 July, 2008 | in Blogs

Turning on the radio this morning, I was surprised to hear someone discussing data on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4. It turned out to be Sir Tim Berners Lee talking about the semantic web; he even managed to mention RDF and HTML without confusing the interviewers too much. The interesting 8 and a half minute discussion is available via the BBC iPlayer.

Research Repository System web orientation

2 July, 2008 | in Blogs

This is one of a series of posts aiming to expand on the idea of the negative click, positive value repository, which I'm now calling a Research Repository System. I've suggested it should contain these elements:

Science publishing, workflow, PDF and Text Mining

2 May, 2008 | in Blogs

… 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.

Closing the Digital Curation Gap

Data curation is often carried out by information practitioners with little training or experience. The Closing the Digital Curation Gap (CDCG) collaboration united those at the cutting edge of digital curation research, development, teaching and training with the aim of creating good practice guides covering all aspects of data curation.

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Closing the Digital Curation Gap

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