Archive for the 'scholarly communication' Category

theorem: searching means rewriting

Sunday, August 5th, 2007

Imagine a network of concepts, each concept naming a combination of words (symbols). Imagine searching for words belonging to that concept through a collection of digital documents containing text. Then each query corresponds to a path through that network, path which reaches a collection of documents. Then each document found can, essentially, be represented (as [...]

Guaranteed public access to publicly-funded research results

Saturday, January 27th, 2007

You may sign the Petition for guaranteed public access to publicly-funded research results. It is addressed to the European Commission (you have a choice to sign as an individual or on behalf of your organization). Tell your friends about it: this (the access to the research you financed) is one of the services you paid [...]

Hermes 0.9.12 is ready

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

This version managed to convert a couple of hundreds of sample articles from the arxiv-math. Because those sources vary widely in terms of metadata quality (author, date…etc. records), some of the converted articles look a bit messy. That’s the next Hermes version’s job: to get a bit wiser in terms of recovering the metadata, and [...]