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Meeting Report

Meeting Report

Reports from conferences and workshops of interest to the scholarly community.

Manifests and Reference Lists

Manifests and Reference Lists

Last month at the Force15 conference in Oxford Ian Mulvany and I ran a workshop on data citation support in reference managers. The report of that workshop isn’t done yet, but I can say that it was a success - we now have a pretty good idea what the

Data Citation Support in Reference Managers

Data Citation Support in Reference Managers

This is the title of an upcoming workshop next Sunday organized by Ian Mulvany and myself. The workshop is a pre-conference event of the Force15 conference in Oxford. This blog post summarizes some of the issues and work that needs to be done. Data Citation is one of the big

Webinar on Writing Zotero Translators

Webinar on Writing Zotero Translators

In a blog post two weeks ago I argued for the need for reference managers to properly support data citation, if we want data citation to become a standard activity. I am happy to announce two events working towards that goal. November 3rd: Webinar on writing Zotero web translators Sebastian

Let's do an unconference

Let's do an unconference

This year’s SpotOn London conference takes place November 14-15 and the registration has opened this Monday. I am helping organize this conference since 2009, and I again look forward to the sessions, and - more importantly - the discussions with people in and between sessions this year. The name

Visualizing Scholarly Content

Visualizing Scholarly Content

One topic I will cover this Sunday in a presentation on Open Scholarship Tools at Wikimania 2014 together with Ian Mulvany is visualization. Data visualization is all about telling stories with data, something that is of course not only important for scholarly content, but for example increasingly common in journalism.

What is a DOI?

What is a DOI?

This Sunday Ian Mulvany and I will do a presentation on Open Scholarship Tools at Wikimania 2014 in London. From the abstract: This presentation will give a broad overview of tools and standards that are helping with Open Scholarship today. One of the four broad topics we have picked are

Build Roads not Stagecoaches

Build Roads not Stagecoaches

I attended the Open Knowledge Festival this week and I had a blast. For three days (I also attended the fringe event csv,conf on Tuesday) I listed to wonderful presentations and was involved in great discussions - both within sessions, but more importantly all the informal discussions between and