Tag: Open Data
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Mendeley Brainstorm – Open Data – We Have a Winner!
Many thanks to all those who entered the Mendeley Brainstorm related to Open Data; picking a winner given the well thought out answers was not easy, however in the end, we selected Sarah’s post: When we talk about Open Data, there are really two separate issues: the sharing of raw data and open access to…
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Mendeley Brainstorm: Open Data – The Wave of the Future?
“Pirate Politics” are on the march. The Pirate Party of Iceland tripled their representation in the October election. Many organisations, including the Mozilla Foundation, are clamouring for copyright reform to allow more data sharing. Is Open Data the wave of the future? What are the downsides? We are looking for the most well thought out…
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Collaboration is Key to Making the Most of Big Data
On May 13th Mendeley Co-founder Jan Reichelt took part in a really exciting event hosted by the Big Data Institute, which was born out of a partnership between Reed Elsevier and UCL last year. For a whole day, major players from across business, education and academia got together to discuss what the big idea is…
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Dear researcher, which side of history will you be on?
Recently I was sitting at café Tryst in Washington D.C. along with Mendeley’s co-founders and a coffee house full of hipsters, Georgetown students, tourists, and a few politicos. In retrospect, perhaps this was the only setting possible to be discussing the future of research and our small part in it. We were surrounded by the…
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Who is killing science on the Web? Publishers or Scientists?
Killing the advancement of science on the Web is killing the advancement of science as a whole. A few weeks ago I attended a panel session at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco called, “Making the Web work for science.” (Video wrap-up here) Really, the focus was on how to get scientists to put their…
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