PIDapalooza is a new forum concerned with discussing all things persistent, hence PID. You might wonder what possible interest a chemist might have in such an apparently arcane subject, but think of it in terms of how to find the proverbial needle in a haystack in a time when needles might look all very similar. Even needles need descriptions, they are not all alike and PIDs are a way of providing high quality information (metadata) about a digital object.
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PIDapalooza 2018: the open festival for persistent identifiers.
Tuesday, November 14th, 2017Tags:Chemical IT, chemist, computing, Information, Information science, Knowledge representation, librarian, Needle, PID
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500 chemical twists: a (chalk and cheese) comparison of the impacts of blog posts and journal articles.
Friday, June 3rd, 2016The title might give it away; this is my 500th blog post, the first having come some eight years ago. Very little online activity nowadays is excluded from measurement and so it is no surprise that this blog and another of my "other" scholarly endeavours, viz publishing in traditional journals, attract such "metrics" or statistics. The h-index is a well-known but somewhat controversial measure of the impact of journal articles; here I thought I might instead take a look at three less familiar ones – one relating to blogging, one specific to journal publishing and one to research data.
Tags:Chemical IT, Country: Svalbard and Jan Mayen, CrossRef, head of information resources, HTML, Imperial College, librarian, online activity, Online Usage, PDF, researcher, search engines, usage statistics portal
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