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This is a fascinating post on what dynamics are in place between large companies and developers. The bottom line is that Microsoft has had to pay a large sum (>$7B) to acquire a developer friendly platform because they currently don’t really have one. In contrast Apple has a lot of leverage over developers on iOS, but not on other platforms. I’m not sure if there is a connection to researchers in the STM space, but some journals certainly have a lot of leverage over researchers. ... (more)

This is a tool for visualising EC funded projects listed in OpenAire using the infrastructure of Open Knowledge maps. For digging into projects that you know, I think this has some value, but I’d like to see some global overview of where funding is flowing. https://openknowledgemaps.org/viper/ ... (more)

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I love this short presentation on using the shell for data science. Many of the things hat are described in the presentation are just plain useful anyway, searching over csv files, finding things, renaming things. https://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/event/267/50%20reasons%20to%20learn%20the%20shell%20for%20doing%20data%20science%20Presentation.pdf ... (more)

This looks like a great way to quickly get an overview of your site architecture, a vital step when thinking about wide spread changes. https://www.ayima.com/blog/how-to-visualize-an-xml-sitemap-using-python.html ... (more)

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2018/05/14/the-academic-papers-researchers-regard-as-significant-are-not-those-that-are-highly-cited/ ... (more)

paper about an open source tool for studying neuroscience images developed by Anisha Keshavan, and others. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811917302707 ... (more)

a nice description of IIF from the guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/28/the-guardian-view-on-digitising-culture-make-manuscripts-more-illuminating ... (more)

Last week the eLife innovation sprint happened in Cambridge. It was done in collaboration with the Mozilla global sprint. I was able to participate for some of the event, and I’ll write up a bit more about the project I worked on later. There is a slide deck that summarises all of the projects from the two days: Slides of outputs from the sprint: eLifeSprint2018_introductions_people&projects - Google Slides. Briefly, this was hands down one of the most productive two-day sprints that I’ve ever been involved in. ... (more)

Working under Force11 the California digital library and the EBI have made progress on making identifiers to data held in biological data repositories more easily resolvable. The have done this by setting up infrastructure and standards to support creating globally unique prefixes for the data repositories involved. You can see some examples in this table: Table 2: Examples of persistent, citable URLs for a single accession (NCBI Taxon 9606), with default and specified providers. ... (more)