CrossRef writes up RSS usage recommendations

CrossTech announced that a CrossRef working group has written a best practices for the use of RSS feeds by publishers. Nice introduction for anyone who is creating RSS feeds. Only comment I could make, is the lack of other modules. For example, a Chemistry module has been proposed by us 5 years ago already (DOI:10.1021/ci034244p) and about which I blogged on several occasions.

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Work in Progress: an Open DocCheck replacement

While it is still very much in progress, I have already made more progress than I had hoped for. The JavaDoc Doclet API is actually not too difficult to use, though my use will very likely improve more later. The CDK has been using Sun’s DocCheck utility for testing the library’s JavaDoc quality, but the reports never really satisfied me. Moreover, the most recent version is ancient and because it is closed source, no one can continue on those efforts. DocCheck is MIA.

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PMD 2.4.5 installed in the CDK 1.2.x branch

Today I installed PMD 4.2.5 in the CDK 1.2.x branch which contains mostly bug fixes compared to the 4.2.2 version we had earlier. Several of these include false positives: warnings which were not really problems, but tests going bad.

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SPARQL end points, Jena and bif:contains

I have been having fun with SPARQL in Bioclipse for a while now, and blogged at several occasions:

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NMRShiftDB RDF #3: Bio2RDF

My might have seen my efforts to convert the NMRShiftDB data into RDF:

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Where are the CDK 1.3.1 and 1.2.4 releases ?!?

You might be wondering what is keeping the CDK 1.3.1 and 1.2.4 releases. And right you are. When we look at Supernightly, we get a clue (BTW, I hope the EBI nodes will join soon too):

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VR.se funded research to be OA as of 2010

Happy news from the Swedish Vetenskapsradet (via Coturnix): as of next 2010 all peer reviewed journal papers must be Open Access. I am not yet VR funded, but involved in a few VR grant applications. Not that that really matters, as I am happily publishing OA already.

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