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- ‘The Kryos Noise’ is available on Spotify
The prog rock album I’ve worked on years ago with the band Kryos Project is now available also on Spotify (and Amazon too). Why? Well it just feels good to be able to open up Spotify and listen to your own music. This is stuff we’ve made almost 20 years ago (!) but it still […]
- Zero Hunger Hack Day: surfacing research about the Sustainable Development Goals program
This post is about a little dashboard idea that aims at helping policy makers discover research relevant to the ‘zero hunger‘ topic, one of the themes of the Sustainable Development Goals program. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people […]
- Interesting read: ‘SciSci’ i.e. the science of science
Albert-László Barabási is a Romanian-born Hungarian-American physicist, best known for his work in the research of network theory. This article discusses the impact and methods of ‘science analytics’ that is the quantitative analysis of scientific outputs. Full Article Available here: http://barabasi.com/f/939.pdf The science of science (SciSci) offers a quantitative understanding of the interactions among scientific […]
- Leipzig Semantics 2016 conference
A few weeks ago I attended the Semantics conference in Leipzig, so here’s a short report about the event. SEMANTiCS 2016 (#semanticsconf) continues a long tradition of bringing together colleagues from around the world to present best practices, panels, papers and posters to discuss semantic systems in birds-of-a-feather sessions and informal settings. What I really […]
- Open Data Summit 2016
On November 1st we were invited to present the Scigraph project at the London ODI Summit, the annual event organized by the Open Data Institute to review and discuss the social and economic impact of open data in both the public and commercial sectors. If data infrastructure is as important to our infrastructure as […]
- SpotiSci: finding science concepts on Spotify
Ever wondered how many musical albums focus on topics like the moon landing, artificial intelligence or DNA replication? Probably not for everyone’s taste, but if you give it a shot you’ll be surprised at the results. When I ran into the excellent Spotipy library (a small yet nifty Python client for the Spotify Web API) […]
- Accessing OS X dictionary with Python
A little script that allows to access the OS X Dictionary app using Python. Tip: make the script executable and add an alias for it in order to be able to call it from the command line easily.
- Recent projects from CrossRef.org
We spent the day with the CrossRef team in Oxford last week, talking about our recent work in the linked data space (see the nature ontologies portal) and their recent initiatives in the scholarly publishing area. So here’s a couple of interesting follow ups from the meeting. ps. If you want to know more about […]
- A sneak peek at Nature.com articles’ archive
We’re getting closer to releasing the full set of metadata covering over one million articles published by Nature Publishing Group since 1845. So here’s a sneak peek at this dataset, in the form of a simple d3.js visual summary of what soon will be available to download and reuse. In the last months I’ve been […]
- Nature.com ontologies portal available online
The Nature ontologies portal is new section of the nature.com site that describes our involvement with semantic technologies and also makes available to the wider public several models and datasets as RDF linked data. We launched the portal nearly a month ago, to the purpose of sharing our experiences with semantic technologies and more generally […]