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oof. that'll be a tough job. - RepoRat

Pedro, I agree fully. but it's the same for most things. Around 14 years ago I started of in semantic technologies in chemistry... - Egon Willighagen

Hahahaha... funny story! - Egon Willighagen

speaking of downloading every single article a library has a subscription to, check out what can go wrong: http://kottke.org/11... - Jason Snyder

"Disruptive action in scholarly publishing [...] hopefully legal" love it! I'm along for the ride! - Björn Brembs

Nice one: "IFs are per journal. This about as meaningful a measure of worth as deciding that a person is well-dressed because they shop at a given store. You can be badly dressed with expensive cloths and vice versa. ". Might just borrow this analogy for a future presentation..... - 'Mummi' Thorisson

Just booked my flight. w00t! - Heather Piwowar

@Cameron. That would be fantastic, FigShare is a perfect 5 minute filler and great follow up to Dryad!... and any questions people have following your talk just point them in my direction. No prep needed whatsoever! :) But honestly, any shout outs would be greatly appreciated. @Heather, I'll be tweet stalking you on Monday then :) - science3point0

Updated my Link to Link Wordpress plugin to now use a simplified version of CiTO. - Martin Fenner

Egon, I thought about this too. It makes a lot of sense to create the code ResearchBlogging needs with a Wordpress plugin. I will look into this when I start working on a plugin that creates a bibliography in March. - Martin Fenner

At a time when I am considering moving from wordpress. Much as I like Wordpress and what Matt M has done, the lure of Jekyll is strong - Deepak Singh

Mummi, my "Contact Info Options" plugin stores additional info about Wordpress authors, including affiliation, ORCID, Mendeley and of course Twitter and Facebook. - Martin Fenner

Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Vol. 14, No. 11. (03 November 2010), pp. 482-488. The reciprocal interactions with others that play such a significant part in our lives depend upon trust; individuals need to be confident that their partners are cooperative, and that they will return favours. Reputation permits the choice of better partners and provides incentives to be more cooperative. These uses of reputation are not unique to humans. However, in complex human societies, with large numbers of potential partners, keeping track of each other's reputation is a vital part of everyday life, and, in an inevitable arms race, ever more powerful strategies of reputation management are being developed. In this article, we bring together insights from different disciplines to throw new light onto the importance and scope of reputation management. Claudio Tennie, Uta Frith, Chris Frith - Björn Brembs

Yes please. And thank you for the links Mummi. - Martin Fenner

Something missing at the end, innit? - 'Mummi' Thorisson

There's a part II: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Björn Brembs

has anything happened since this article in September? - Jennifer Melinn

I hope that there is more to report at the next ORCID Participant meeting November 18 in London. - Martin Fenner

Interesting. But as they themselves note the tool is limited by, obviously, duplicate publication entries in the Mendeley collection + ambiguous author names. The engine "queries the data provider's API for articles matching a given author string". I am not going to bother paying much attention to any of these tools unless there at least *some* basic attempt at resolving author names. - 'Mummi' Thorisson

Like Rod Page (http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2010...), I'm in there multiple times: http://readermeter.org/Thoriss... and http://readermeter.org/Thoriss... - 'Mummi' Thorisson

More precisely: I have an agenda, some ideas, and a possible line on about this amount of money. Am interested in any ideas on how most effectively to create change with about this resource and anyone who is interested in taking part (with the caveat that this is not a whole lot of money if it gets split a lot of ways). - Cameron Neylon

Sorry for arriving late to the conversation, I've been dipping out, but I'd like to reaffirm Daniels sentiments and would happily offer S3.0 be It as a hosting service to the proof of principle or to act as an infrastructure organisation, either in it's current format or in a tailor made format for those involved, closed group etc - science3point0 from iPhone

absolutely - Graham Steel

kewl :) - Graham Steel

I hope that ORCID becomes more visible by becoming a non-profit organization. And with a board of directors you now have people you can contact with questions or suggestions. Please do. - Martin Fenner

Congratulations, Martin! So sorry I will be in Milan at ESMO when you are next over here :( - Sally Church

One of my favorite tricks is to convert a dataset to a pdf and submit to Nature Precedings - that way you get a DOI, author list, user comments, automatic entry into Google Scholar, etc. And if you link from NP to your data in a more organized way (e.g. Google Spreadsheet) you get all the benefits of the pdf without the significant downside of using it exclusively to share data. - Jean-Claude Bradley

@Mummi If the whole #solo10 community starts using it, then I'll feel well accomplished. Using it as a hashtag would be a great way to get a stream of everything that needs serious improvement too. It could actually be a useful tool. - Jennifer Melinn

"ORCID as unique author identifier: what is it good for and should we worry or be happy? - This was the title of the session with Geoff Bilder, Gudmundur Thorisson and myself at the Science Online London Conference (http://www.scienceonlinelondon.org/program...) last Saturday." - 'Mummi' Thorisson

@Martin Excellent writeup. I just put my slides on Slideshare too (http://slidesha.re/dqjO0F) and filed undir 'orcid' (http://www.slideshare.net/tag...). - 'Mummi' Thorisson

Thanks a lot Mummi. I've added the link to your Slideshare presentation. Embedding the presentations would be nicer, but I couldn't get that to work on the new blog. - Martin Fenner

I had a bit of a rant at a Science Online London panel session on Saturday.As usual when discussing scientific publishing the dreaded issue of the Journal Impact Factor came up. While everyone complains about metrics I've found that people in general seem remarkably passive when it comes to challenging their use. Channeling Björn Brembs more than anything else I said something approximately like the following. - Cameron Neylon

@Mummi: nice! This sort of technology needs to be developed and incorporated in citation analyses are to progress. - Björn Brembs

I'd recommend him to require you to keep a blog, source code repository, and be Open Notebook Science... shared Google calendar, blog planet for the lab. Group 'teams' for bookmarking services like Delicious, Mendeley/Connotea ... anything specific you are looking for? - Egon Willighagen

+1 Basecamp - John Hogenesch

"Der Spiegel recently interviewed Craig Venter (founder of Celera, sequencer of most of the first human genome — his own) on his role in the Human Genome Project . Never one to mince words, Venter was quick to dismiss the project as practically useless: Venter: ...what else have I learned from my genome? Very little. We couldn't even be certain from my genome what my eye color was. Isn't that sad?... SPIEGEL: So the Human Genome Project has had very little medical benefits so far? Venter: Close to zero to put it precisely." - 'Mummi' Thorisson

No ... That part is right but saying nothing has been done is feeding the hordes and he knows it - Deepak Singh from iPhone

Still, pedal straps are so 1990's. Once you're weaned on to a clipless, cleats-in-shoes system, there's no way back. I've used these for >3y now: http://www.crankbrothers.com/pedals_... . Downside: need special shoes which will take the cleats. - 'Mummi' Thorisson

Precisely trying to avoid special shoes. They don't seem to make them in 6E width... - Geoffrey Bilder

check out the chat room! Everyone works for 25mins, chats for 5, works for 25... great way to keep plugging on things that you'd rather procrastinate on. Very supportive environment, phinished. Great advice there from other PhD finishers. 2 thumbs up. - Heather Piwowar

I'll have a look. Right now I would much prefer to throw nearly-finished Big Book in the ocean and go work as a fisherman or somesuch. But I suppose after 3 1/2 years, a couple of weeks more won't kill me. - 'Mummi' Thorisson

Nice status report. My main question: who will 'own' my ORCID? Can I make the *record* available under CC0? - Egon Willighagen

Jörg, not as far as I know. ORCID is not really about authentication, because that is a slightly different problem. ORCID aims for a business model that is very similar to CrossRef/DOI, e.g. an independent organization that gets funding from participants. I personally think that ORCID needs money, as building the infrastructure and maintaining the databases will cost money. - Martin Fenner

We will face the same issues with linked data. - Geoffrey Bilder

I can agree with one of the commenters (http://www.boingboing.net/2010...) that offering both full and summary-level/abbreviated feed content would be ideal, so users can choose the feed format that suits them. - 'Mummi' Thorisson

As a Galaxy fan, I love this: "It is challenging to provide convenient access to the large and complex data sets resulting from the sequencing and analysis of a human genome. In addition to submitting data to standard repositories, we provide all data sets in an immediately useful form through the Galaxy bioinformatics platform (http://usegalaxy.org), a web application designed to integrate data with analysis tools. In addition to downloading, data sets can be transformed in a variety of ways and compared with existing annotations (see ‘Data and analysis user’s guide’ at http://galaxycast.org). The positions of the SNPs for each Bushman and ABT can be viewed in a customized installation of the UCSC Genome Browser (http://main.genome-browser.bx.psu.edu/), along with supporting evidence (number of reads for each allele and hyperlinks to the actual reads) and computationally predicted phenotypic consequences for SNPs in coding regions." - 'Mummi' Thorisson

Neil, please clarify: from reading this it seems to me that they *are* providing the data in a useful form, and so rising to the challenge. But you're saying that they aren't? I'm not following... - 'Mummi' Thorisson

I was thinking of creating my own as a Ruby on Rails engine to hook into the lab's existing site. I don't want to reinvent the wheel though. - Michael Barton

we had started on a similar venture way back and using the Gmod tools and a rails frontend. http://rubyforge.org/project... - george

"CrossRef is pleased to announce that it will be participating in the recently launched Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) initiative to create an unambiguous identifier for scholarly and professional researchers. Our members will be aware that CrossRef has been exploring the possibility of creating an “author DOI” or “contributor ID” system. In doing so, it has become clear that the issues and use-cases involved in identifying researchers span a broad collection of stakeholders including libraries, institutions, funders, publishers and, of course researchers themselves. In short, this is not primarily “a publisher problem.” As such, we believe that the ORCID approach to creating an inclusive and open organization representing all the stakeholders in the scholarly communications process represents the best chance of creating a successful contributor identification system" - 'Mummi' Thorisson

+1 Björn, except I'm not so eager to sign up if it means letting people know that I'm an orc. :-) - Ruchira S. Datta

Sad, just sad - Deepak Singh

what is so harmful about having your research referenced by another? if it is cited, it can bring attention and acclaim to the original. if it is not properly cited, then that is itself the problem - Mike Chelen

Crud - sorry for the re-post folks, there was something in that version that shouldn't have been (and if anyone's downloaded the file and figured out what it is I'd appreciate it if you didn't spread it around - some details to be ironed out yet) - Cameron Neylon

....and its gone! - Cameron Neylon

"NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) created the first American satellite and are now using Taverna for their Web Services-based infrastructure.[..] One of the challenges faced by the research team is the integration of various models that are used to explore the science behind the JPL’s missions. These models have been developed independently and run on different platforms, so their integration is not straightforward. The JPL’s solution is to wrap each model as a Web Service and drive them with a Web Services-enabled workflow." [From the OMII-UK newsletter: http://www.omii.ac.uk/wiki...] - 'Mummi' Thorisson

?!? - Neil Swainston

"deCODE's demise leaves fate of its valuable genetic database unclear. After struggling financially for years, the genomics company deCODE, based in Reykjavik, Iceland, filed for bankruptcy on 16 November. The question now is whether other companies looking to commercialize genomics will follow the same path" - 'Mummi' Thorisson

Things looking gloomier than ever for my ex-employer back in the home country. :( - 'Mummi' Thorisson

Coverage from the Genetic Future blog: http://scienceblogs.com/genetic... - 'Mummi' Thorisson

Yeah, I think I heard about that. Isn't that what they call science? That whole thing where you observe, guess, experiment, speculate, experment again, until you can reproduce results consistently and then you tell someone else who does the same thing with your data? - Aaron Kendrick

So I've heard! :! - 'Mummi' Thorisson

No. science is where you do what you can get funded which absolutely does not include replication checking or audits. None of which generate nature papers - Cameron Neylon from Android