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The image is a hard disk drive with only 5 MB of storage (we get 16 GB + nowadays in our USB memory sticks—that’s 3,200 of these 1956 hard drives!) The good news was that it replaced punch cards1---remember them? Prior to this magnetic computer storage had consisted of core memory, tape, and drums.

AL.com reports:A longtime University of Alabama booster said today he is filing an ethics complaint against state public officials for purchasing Crimson Tide football tickets without paying extra as Tide Pride members. The Alabama Ethics Commission, without confirming or denying...

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This is a list of the points I want to cover when introducing the session on Polemics. A list looks a bit dry but I promise to be polemical. And try to show some demos at the end. The polemics are constructive in that I shall suggest how we can change the #scholpub world by building a better one than the current one. NOTE: Do not be overwhelmed by the scale of this. Together we can do it. It is critical we act now Semantics/Mining is now seen as an opportunity by some publishers to “add value” by building walled gardens. Increasing attempts to convince authors to use CC-NC. We must develop semantic resources ahead of this and push the edges One person can change the world We must create a coherent community Examples: Open Streetmap, Wikipedia Galaxyzoo OKFN Crowdcrafting, Blue Obelisk (Chemistry – PMR), ?#scholrev Visions Give power to authors Discover, aggregate and search (“Google for science”) Make the literature computable Enhance readers with semantic aids Smart “invisible” capture of information Practice before Politics Create compelling examples Add Value Make authors’ lives easier Mine and semanticize current scholarship. Text Tables Diagrams Data Text (chemistry, species) Tables (Jailbreak corpus) Diagrams chemical spectra, phylogenetic trees Data (output). Quixote Material to start with Open information (EuropePMC, theses) “data not copyrightable”. Supp data, tables, data-rich diagrams Push the limits of what’s allowed (forgiveness not permission) Disciplines/artefacts with good effort/return ratio Phylogenetic trees (Ross Mounce + PMR) Nucleic acid sequences Chemical formulae and reactions Regressions and models Clinical/human studies (tables) Dose-response curves Tools, services, resources     We need a single-stop location for tools Research-enhancing tools (science equiv of Git/Mercurial). Capture and validate work continuously Common approach to authoring Crawling tools for articles, theses. PDF and Word converters to “XML” Classifiers NLP tools and examples Table hackers Diagram hackers Logfile hackers Semantic repositories Abbreviations and glossaries Dictionaries and dictionary builders  Advocacy, helpers, allies Bodies who may be interested (speculative, I haven’t asked them): Funders of science major Open publishers Funders of social change (Mellon, Sloane, OSF…) SPARC, DOAJ, etc. (Europe)PMC Crowdcrafting (OKF, am involved with this) Wikipedia

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A ghostly figure has stunned one family, in Kirtland, Ohio, appearing in a family photograph behind their daughter, who had been battling leukemia at the time.That the figure in question resembles the Virgin Mary, says Erin's mom, Jen Potter, is no coincidence. "My reaction immediately, it's Mary, they hear us, she's there," she told WOIO in an interview that aired Friday. "I didn't necessarily see it as a sign that Erin is fine and is going to walk out of this, but it's a sign that we're watching over her."More...

Lake Worth, Kelly-Rask Homestead, est. 1952?Back in Lake Worth for some much needed down time before the excavation season begins. Back online with this blog, which has been closed for about the last year and half, thanks to dissertations and classes. It's nice to be back :)

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San Antonio Fire Department spokesman Christian Bove says a 29-year-old woman was trapped in her car, got on the roof and was swept away in floodwaters