Talking With Talis :: Peter Murray-Rust on Open Access, Open Data, Science, and the Semantic Web

Originally posted on Talking With Talis on May 31, 2007.

In our latest Talking with Talis podcast, Paul Miller talks with Professor Peter Murray-Rust of the Unilever Centre for Molecular Sciences Informatics at the University of Cambridge.

In a wide-ranging conversation, we look at the changing nature of academic publishing, the importance of primary data to the process, and the remarkable potential of the Semantic Web in both streamlining and enriching the endeavour.

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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources:

• Artistic License
• Bioinformatics
• Biomed Central
• Cancer Research UK
• Chemistry Central
• Creative Commons' Attribution License
• dbpedia
• GNU GPL License
• Journal of the American Chemical Society
• JUMBO
• UK Medical Research Council (MRC)
• Peter Murray-Rust's blog
• Nature
• UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
• Open Access on Wikipedia
• Open Data panel at WWW2007
• Open Data on Wikipedia
• OpenID
• OpenLink's Virtuoso
• PLoS ONE
• Science
• Science and Technology Committee of the House of Commons report, Scientific Publications: Free for All?, plus documented responses in 2004 and 2005.
• Science Commons
• SPECTRa-T
• vCard
• The Wellcome Trust
• Wikipedia

NPR's Science Friday :: Encyclopedia of Life / Digital Libraries

Originally broadcast by NPR's Science Friday on May 11, 2007.

Want to flip through the pages of every book in the world? Several efforts are working to digitize and make available online all the information that might be hiding on the shelves of libraries around the world. We'll talk to leaders in the digital libraries community, and talk about just how they intend to go about bringing every book published into the online world.

Plus, this week scientists announced a new effort to create an online encyclopedia of life. Pulling information from labs, libraries, and museums around the world, the project aims to make a multimedia web page for every known species on the planet. We'll talk to one of the project's leaders.

Guests:

Gary G. Borisy - Member of the Steering Committee, Encyclopedia of Life Project

Brewster Kahle - Digital Librarian, Director and Co-Founder The Internet Archive

Michael S. Hart - Founder, Project Gutenberg

Michael Keller - University Librarian Director of Academic Information Resources Stanford University