In opposition to my speech supporting the motion “the open access movement has failed”, here’s what Jessica Polka said in opposition to the motion. The open access movement has not failed. It is in the process of succeeding. Indeed, over 50% of papers are now open access.

Normally I crop, rotate, and color balance every photo within an inch of its life, but right now I have a talk to polish, hence the as-shot quality here. See you in the future — the real near future if you’re attending the 2024 Tate summer conference, “The Jurassic: Death, Diversity, and Dinosaurs”.

Das Urheberrecht gilt auch im Wahlkampf: Betim Neziraj gibt einen Überblick, was es bei der Übernahme von Reden, Plakaten und anderen politischen Inhalten urheberrechtlich zu beachten gilt – und wo gesetzliche Ausnahmen oder offene Lizenzen helfen. Am 9. Juni wird in Europa wieder gewählt. Parteien buhlen mit Wahlplakaten und öffentlichen Reden, gefüllt mit Versprechen aus ihren Wahlprogrammen, um die Aufmerksamkeit der Wähler*innen.

Have you complained about the inefficiency of public administration before? I think, you're not alone. In this post I want to share my journey with trying to help increase efficiency through data literacy in the public sector.

I added Twitter syndication, and because I have nothing to test it with I’ll share some random life updates. My daughter was born recently, which means I’m on paternity leave for a few months. Hopefully in the liminal hours of sleep training, I’ll have some time to work on my book. Or at least catch up on reading. I finally published my grandmother’s autobiography.

Can Semantic Search be more interpretable? COLBERT, SPLADE might be the answer but is it enough?

A broad landscape of open research information systems The landscape of open research information systems is broad. In addition to large (and global) open data sources like OpenAlex, OpenAIRE, or PubMed, we also have local or regional open data sources like SciELO, Redalyc or LaReferencia.

Developing dendroNetwork as a package was not a goal from the beginning, but looking back, I think that it should have been. I wish someone had suggested making a package to me much earlier. Why? Because of many things, but mostly: reproducibility and transparency. This enables others to also use the method and software.

As I noted a week ago, to my enormous surprise I was invited to be one of the two participants in the plenary debate the closes the annual meeting of my long-term nemesis, the Society for Scholarly Publishing. I was to propose the motion “The open access movement has failed” in ten minutes or less, followed by Jessica Polka’s statement against the motion;

Había prometido hablar del botón «Options» de ChrysoCollate en esta entrada.