I prefer the title above. The official title of this event (“I never metadata I didn’t like”) is perhaps more revealing than the organisers imagined. We only like metadata, we never dislike it. Imagine putting together a one-day conference about metadata. …
We should be in the open data lake, but instead we are all too often stuck in stagnant water. Such was the message from the excellent CISPC Conference on Open Research (Art House, …
I recently read about a new research report, Mind the Gap, by a team with lead author John Maxwell, about some initiatives in open-source software. It made me ponder how to appraise and to evaluate new software tools.
This year’s …
Some articles are not really about AI at all; this is one of them. David Beer, Professor of Sociology at the University of York, has written a post with the above title (actually a question in the original). But of course, …
It seems a simple idea – to read the label on a bottle of wine and to understand what the bottle contains (and if it’s worth drinking). The reality is quite the opposite. Wine …
Preprint servers, of which the best known is arXiv (most of the preprint servers attempt some fancy combination of lower- and upper-case letters in their title), are increasingly used and are attracting increasing attention. …
How do you measure the success of a scholarly article? Many writers disagree that citations should be the only measurement, for example, Bornmann 2017, even if at present the number of citations is the agreed independent metric for scholarly research. …
There has always been an outer reach of computing, often where it drifts into science fiction. Clearly, this occupies many people’s imaginations, although perhaps, less so the minds of computing professionals. Surely, on the principle that any publicity …
Not a day passes without someone suggesting a way to reduce the inefficiency of the scholarly publication cycle. There is an interesting article in Scholarly Kitchen by Tim Vines, about Michael Eisen, the new Editor-in-Chief of eLife, suggesting ideas for the …
The biannual ISKO-UK conference held this year at City University, London, should be a good opportunity to assess the state of things in knowledge management. Of course, it’s not possible to summarise all the sessions, nor would I want …
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