Greycite: Citing the Web
In this article, we will describe the rationale behind our new service, Greycite, that we have developed in general enable more formal citation of URLs, and specifically to back up the kcite citation...
View ArticleKcite, Greycite and Kblog-metadata
I am pleased to announce that as part of my work on knowledgeblog [1], we now have two new tools — Greycite and kblog-metadata — and have extended kcite, our citation engine [2]. I will just give a...
View ArticleSemantic Web Irony
I am at the Extended Semantic Web Conference [1]. I haven’t published or been to this conference for quite a while [2], so I was interested to see how things have changed in the meantime. The first...
View ArticleSlightly Less Ironic
Following up from somewhat combatative article of yesterday [1], my colleagues Michel Dumontier and Bijan Parsia pointed out that my last post was technically wrong. Actually, Bijan said “you’re an...
View ArticleIntroducing a NearCon
While at ESWC [1], as well as complaining about the proceedings [2], I started to think about an idea for what I call a NearCon, or “Nearly a Conference”. Workshops and conferences have a specific and...
View ArticleTrying arXiv
We were pleased that our paper [1] was accepted in a special issue associated with the Extended Semantic Web Conference, as one of the best papers from the Workshops. Of course, it is lovely to be...
View ArticleOpen Access and the Semantic Web
As I alluded to in my recent post [1], the paper that we submitted to Sepublica [2] was accepted for a special issue associated with the main conference Extended Semantic Web Conference, as one of the...
View ArticleBringing Things to Life
Tim Berners-Lee sitting at a computer desk, typing on his machine. Around him, 10,000 camera flashes flare, fireworks fire reds and blues into the sky, and the shades of a thousand costumes, filling...
View ArticleSimple HTML
A while back, I submitted a grant to JISC on digital preservation. The basic idea was to move a set of files that I had as Word docs, post them all on the knowledgeblog platform. The practical upshot...
View ArticleColour is not enough
Recently, I was surprised to be told that we could not have colour figures in our paper [1], even though it was online only. Our assumption is that this is an enormous legacy issue; the publisher in...
View ArticleExtending the Process
After a reasonably long hiatus, I have started to work on the Process Knowledgeblog again. Particularly with the creation of kblog-metadata [1], the need for more documentation was pressing, and the...
View ArticleWhy academic publishing is like a coffee shop
Drinking coffee in Italy is a quite different experience from drinking coffee in many UK coffee shops. In Italy, first you go into a bar — ”bar” in Italian doesn’t really have a direct translation...
View ArticleA One Man War
I was recently described by Duncan Hull as waging a one man war for metadata on the web. There is a degree of truth in this, of course. Since Lindsay Marshall [1] and myself started work on Greycite...
View ArticlePublishing With Future Internet
I have previously described the difficulty that we have had publishing in semantic web conferences [1]; the two main conferences (ESWC and ISWC) both publish with Springer-Verlag, and so provide no...
View ArticleComputing Publication Online
A lot has been said about the scientific publication process, and how the publishers add value. I have commented before on the joys of being asked to pay extra page charges for colour pixels [1],...
View ArticleIs Peer Review the Future?
Today, I recieved an email from a journal, asking me if I would review a paper. The paper in question is by, amoung others, Iddo Friedberg, and can be read on arXiv [1]. I’ve known Iddo Friedberg for...
View ArticleWhy Metadata Must be Useful
Adding metadata to article could be done by many people. This could be the author, and in the ideal world, this would be the author. They know most about the content and are best placed to put the...
View ArticleThe evil a space can do
Recently, I was contacted by a Kcite [1] user who had found an interesting problem. They had cut-and-paste a DOI from the American Society of Microbiology article [webcite], and then used this in a...
View ArticleOpen Access Response to HEFCE
HEFCE is currently asking for feedback on the role of Open Access in the next REF. While I have a a number of technical suggestions, I think that the biggest and best contribution that the next HEFCE...
View ArticleArchiving of Scientific Material
In this article, I consider the practical issues with archiving of scientific material placed on the web; I will describe the motivation for doing this, the background and consider the various...
View Article
