The Age of Man, or the Anthropocene. As cultural philosopher Peter Sloterdijk wrote in his book “You have to change your life“, we are living in an age where mankind itself now is a factor of change in the Terrestrial Ecosystem Model. Peter wrote that this is the age where the human mindset for the first time is thinking globally, and is realising more and more that his actions have a global impact on many factors. These factors are part of complex intertwined global systems. These sysems can be Economic …

Connecting datasets and publications automatically
Wouldn’t it be great for a scientific data archive to know what publications made use of their data sets? Pingback mechanisms, used in blog systems, can send citation notifications automatically. Can the same be applicable for online journal systems, notifying each other and data archives about citations? It all comes down to agree on using a really simple standard.
This blog article describes  very drafty the Ping-back mechanism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pingback) used in blogs, now used in repositories, data archives and journal systems.
This idea is just giving an …

The speed of alt-metrics presents the opportunity to create real-time recommendation and collaborative filtering systems: instead of subscribing to dozens of tables-of-contents, a researcher could get a feed of this week’s most significant work in her field. This becomes especially powerful when combined with quick “alt-publications” like blogs or preprint servers, shrinking the communication cycle from years to weeks or days. Faster, broader impact metrics could also play a role …

Object Reuse and Exchange (ORE) is a framework for creating collections of related scientific work. ORE an initiative of the Open Archives Initiative (OAI). Web resources can be related to one another in a semantic web machine readable way. The collections or aggregations of web resources can be stored in distributed locations such as web pages and online archives. This in contrast to web services that are locking-in the data, so other users are obliged to use the same service.
When many many aggregations are made one is able to discover …

Ok here is the thing. I read the briefing acticle “The electrification of motorisation” (with subtitle: “The electric-fuel-trade acid test”) in The Economist of September 5th-11th 2009, on page 73. I was excited and thrilled to read this article in the hope they could provide me with new information about this subject. Since it is The Economist wiriting, it is ofcourse about the Joule per dollar one can get out of a gas or electrical battery. The thesis continues about the bateries, new developments make Li-ion bateries faster to charge, …

This week I attend the International Repositories Infrastructure Workshop (This workshop was sponsored by JISC, DRIVER and SURFfoundation) The goal of the workshop was to identify shared agendas for action and coordination between major national and international stakeholders, for the purpose of developing an international federated network of repositories.
Other blogs about this event can be found here http://digitallibrarian.org/?p=44 and here http://digitalcuration.blogspot.com/2009/03/international-repositories.html . Tweets which have been uttered can be found here http://twitter.com/search?q=#repinf09
In this blog I will write about Identifiers, and the Identifier workshop I have attended in.
The Identifier workshop was …