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Pulling out data as JSON from XHTML+RDFa
I am keen on RDFa and RDF in general; that should not be a surprise. RDFa is a serialization of RDF triples embedded in (X)HTML. I recently posted about chemical examples of XHTML+RDFa. Now, the reason for putting data in HTML as RDFa is that we can easily pull it out again, e.g. with this distiller. But the fun goes on, and we can actually also run SPARQL directly on it, for example with RDFaDev which I recently blogged about.
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Handbook of Chemoinformatics Algorithms
As I was originally waiting for an actual copy inbox, which I still have not received, I had not blogged about it, but earlier this year the book “Handbook of Chemoinformatics Algorithms” by Jean-Loup Faulon and Andreas Bender got released for which I wrote a chapter on 3D molecular representation. Just wanted you to know.
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Data duplication at Mendeley
Earlier this year I gave Mendeley a try, after having been a happy JabRef user, unhappy Connotea user (main problem was that any URI can be bookmarked, not just papers, so very noisy), happy CiteULike user (and still am). But the client did not bring me what I needed, and I canceled my account again.
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BioMed Central is going to support Open Data
I had a glance at the plans already in the ACS in Boston, but this week BioMed Central announced a draft call for Open Data in their journals:
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Added a Simile Timeline to my homepage
I finally got around to updating my homepage. Not entirely done yet, but it was overdue. The changelog includes a removal of the sidebar, which did not look nice when the page was embedded in my blog (the Home tab), foaf:interest RDFa annotation, a ToC line just below the header, and a Simile Timeline widget with my research positions and a selection of peer-reviewed papers:
