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My First Hackathon

This Open Research Reports Hackathon was part of the Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences conference. Approaching this from a non-Computer Science perspective, I had no idea what I was in for. Having understood the word ‘hack’ only … Continue reading

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What is BibServer? What happened to Bibliographica?

Time for another clarification on what work we are doing, and what various different acronyms mean. BibServer BibServer is the software we are now working on; the aim of it is to provide a tool that enables individuals and small … Continue reading

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New recruit

Hello from the newest team member, Naomi Lillie. I have recently joined the Open Knowledge Foundation to undertake OKFN coordination work as well as specifically to assist the JISC Open Biblio 2 project. I will be supporting the project as … Continue reading

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International Digital Curation Conference

Last week I attended the International Digital Curation Conference. It was very interesting to see many people from institutes across the world talking about how to manage and share all sorts of research data; from attempts to use institutional repository … Continue reading

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JISC Open Bibliography 2

JISC have put some extra funding in to continue work on Open Bibliography; hooray! We are continuing along the open biblio collections theme from last year, but will now be focussing on ensuring individuals and small groups can do something … Continue reading

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Animal Garden – open science issues

Peter and Tom Murray-Rust put together a presentation called Animal Garden, which we have now converted to a prezi for nice swooshy embedding-ness in web pages. This prezi tells the story of some teddybear scientists who try to share their … Continue reading

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