Peter Murray-Rust
Peter Murray-Rust is a scientist who wants to make scientific information available to everyone, and to make it useful. Machines are a key part of this so he has developed semantic tools which read the literature, extract, validate and republish science. Peter believes that many others share this vision which will grow through bottom-up communities. One such is the Blue Obelisk which has developed many Free/Open programs in chemistry.
The major challenge is not technical, but entrenched attitudes and vested interests. Peter challenges this, both on his blog and by writing “liberation software” to be used by everyone. His current project “The Content Mine” aims to liberate vast numbers of facts currently hidden in the scientific literature and to publish them immediately. The software is generalisable to any discipline, but the first examples will be in biodiversity and in chemistry. He intends to spread the idea by running workshops and hackdays for everyone – policy makers, researchers, developers and will be looking for others to develop their own fields and plugins.
Peter Murray-Rust Blog
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Write to your MEPs to vote to safeguard Open Internet in Europe
I am proud to be a Fellow of the OpenForumAcademy – which promotes openness in IT standards and procurement. We are very concerned about the pressures to lead to two/many-tier Internet access... Read More – ‘Write to your MEPs to vote to safeguard Open Internet in Europe’.
UK Copyright reforms set to become Law: Content-mining, parody and much more
I have been so busy over the last few days and the world has changed so much that I haven’t managed to blog one of the most significant news – the UK government has tables its final draft... Read More – ‘UK Copyright reforms set to become Law: Content-mining, parody and much more’.
Elseviergate today: LIBER says to Libraries: DONT sign Elsevier’s click-through licence for Content Mining (TDM)
A month or so ago Elsevier published a “click-through” licence “allowing” researchers to use Elsevier content for Text-and-Data-Mining (TDM) – more widely content... Read More – ‘Elseviergate today: LIBER says to Libraries: DONT sign Elsevier’s click-through licence for Content Mining (TDM)’.
The WellcomeTrust APC spreadsheet (ed Michelle Brook and community) adds massive crowdsourced value to Open Access. YOU can help
Last week The Wellcome Trust published its list of ca. 2000 articles for which it had paid Article Publishing Charges (APCs). It spent about 3 million GBP. Those publications are a valuable... Read More – ‘The WellcomeTrust APC spreadsheet (ed Michelle Brook and community) adds massive crowdsourced value to Open Access. YOU can help’.
Elseviergate; Elsevier is STILL charging for Open Access even after I have told them. Wellcome should take them to court
Someone needs to take formal action against Elsevier. Like taking them to court. In this case Wellcome. Two days ago I... Read More – ‘Elseviergate; Elsevier is STILL charging for Open Access even after I have told them. Wellcome should take them to court’.
