So my European travels are drawing towards an end. Lot's of new
impressions to digest, both from the travel, and from ElPub
2009 and
OAI6which I
attended. Tomorrow morning I will try to catch a few hours of
HackMeeting in Milan,
before I fly back to Beijing, spending a few days in Dubai on the way.
I will try to post more about my experiences, but in the meantime I am
posting my tweets from OAI6 as an
experiment. Not sure if seeing them like this gives any value, but I
thought I'd give it a try. (I simply searched twitter for "#oai6
from:houshuang",
copied it to TextMate, and used a few regexps to clean it up. I then put
it in a spreadsheet, to reverse the order so the oldest tweets come
first.
In Zurich with friend. Geneva and #oai6 on Wednesday. Then Milan
and a day of #hackmeeting, #dubai, and back to #beijing
In Geneva, great time with awesome #couchsurfing host. #oai6
tomorrow.
#oai6 Discussion about whether/why institutional repositories
should be aiming for 100% coverage of publications in tut 2.
#oai6 CERN harvests publications by own researchers from 90
repositories, makes up 50% of repository. Total coverage rate 80%.
(tut2)
Thinking abt workshop, interactivity... "open exercises" where
facilitator knows exactly what she is looking for. Opp. to
open-ended. #oai6
@icutler Another Norwegian at #oai6? Greetings. Hope to run into
you non-virtually as well.
Herbert Van de Sompel gave amazingly inspiring intro talk - great
opening to the conference that has me fired up. Lot's to think abt.
#oai6
How long until universities go from specifying font sizes and
margins of PhD theses, to specifying which dtd to use? #oai6
With all this new XML, semantic data, etc - where do IRs come in?
Which either take pre-prints (.doc/.pdf) or publishers pdf? #oai6
Any IRs that are requesting publishers XML files, as opposed to
PDFs? #oai6
#oai6 Interesting talk, but I just listened to it verbatim fiv
(#elpub09). (Houghton)
@iamtimmo It was an amazing morning session that really has my
inspired and my neurons buzzing. Congrats! #oai6
Back from a great alcohol-sharing meet hosted at CERN #oai6.
Location didn't add 2 much, but met some great peeps. Look frwrd 2
reconn 2mrw
Nature Publishing Group to begin allowing academic text mining of
their articles. Interesting to see what ppl will come up with.
#oai6
NPG launching Nature Communications, publishing from April next year
"new paradigm", authors choose subscription or OA, deriv or no.
#oai6
I still need to think abt this more deeply... "when will
repositories ask for publishers' XMLs, rather than PDFs"? Inspired
by portico #oai6
#oai6 Breakout group on future of scientific communication: one of
the most intelligent, polite and pleasant exchanges I've
participated in.
#oai6 All conferenced out, went for some pad thai and a Swedish
movie with German/French subtitles. Nice with a complete change ;)
#oai6 Thomson Reuters presentation on ResearcherID. This is sorely
needed - let's see if their solution is the best.
#oai6 ResearcherID... this is really needed, not convinced Thomson
are the right people. It'll be messy until the dust settles.
RT @epoz: MESUR Project. In a league of its own. Have seen pres. on
it before, but I am still blown away. #oai6 (I agree!)