Yes, it’s workshop time! This was my first Researcher to Reader conference, and I found the event very enjoyable (even if I had to participate in a workshop, which prevented me from falling asleep, as I usually do …
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I’ve been looking at the impressive Cambridge University Institutional Repository, called Apollo. The repository has an wide range of content across several subjects, with over 155,000 items in the collection overall. Clearly the repository is widely used to hold content. But is it used …
It is a commonplace that arts and science scholarly writing is different. It’s only when looking regularly at arts and science writing that you begin to see just how different. Some of the differences appear to have little …
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. You are unlikely to …
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, Islington, November 2019).
Academic …
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 SSP Annual Event included …
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, such a title is …
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. They appear to fit …
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.
A fascinating article by …
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 is good publicity, this …