What needs to be done in STM publishing

Philip Bourne's presentation at OOSPA conference

Ten Simple Rules for Open Access Publishers

View more presentations from Philip Bourne

Personalization done right and what's with the apps?

Personalization is not easy. Worth watching how Yahoo Labs scientists are tackling this issue with news content.

And if you are interested to find out how we are doing in terms apps ecosystem in SciVerse and the new Elsevier's Applications and Developer Network initiative just check out all the new solutions that are available to SciVerse users in our applications gallery; you can see one example of our collaboration with scientific community in this case NCBI with the Genome Viewer app; we initiated community driven projects AppsforScience Challenge and AppsforLibrary Idea Challenge, hackathons at NJIT and Tetherless World Health and Life Sciences Hackathon and coming soon Singapore Code Jam.

Overall we are doing "jolie" good...

Here is the Genome Viewer app that was developed by our Content Innovation team and NCBI:

Genome viewer app elsevier application & developer network

View more presentations from Rafael Sidi

Here is a video put together by NJIT hack participants

Guardian MicroApp Platform

Guardian now lets 3rd party apps in Guardian's site

David Fishman puts nicely "Opening up APIs to turn content into new and different applications is just what Apple does with hundreds of thousands of iPhone/iPad/iPod apps. Content, again, is king." Lucid Imaginations

Parenting and Linked Data

Watching the kids in Sims and reminding that there is also a "real" room

Research Funding Explorer by Talis which has one of the most forward thinking product and technology teams that you can find in STM market.

GSK understands that Opening up is good in overall.

Open Data, Scalable Publishing

Panton Principles for Open Data authored by Peter Murray-Rust, University of Cambridge, Cameron Neylon, STFC, Rufus Pollock, Open Knowledge Foundation and John Wilbanks, Science Commons

NSF visualization challenge

A different perspective on scalable publishing

Tim Berners Lee and Open Data

"Scientists’ possessive view toward data is changing, Berners-Lee said, as researchers begin to understand what bloggers have come to know — that if information is shared, it can draw together people with similar interests who can help advance common goals.

However, he enumerated several challenges before the opening of a global marketplace for data. For example, applications built on freely available data can make lots of money, but how can the system ensure that those who compile such data are compensated fairly?" http://bit.ly/63YP4Q

"Open will win"

Open from Google's perspective

Smart content & solution for life science researchers in ScienceDirect via 95014

What's your (STM) openness strategy?

Here is Yahoo's

The Yahoo! Openness Strategy Team is building the next generation of open platforms and integrating them into every part of Yahoo!. From platforms that add a social element to every aspect of Yahoo!, to an applications platform and developer-focused offerings, the YOS team is tasked with transforming the way Yahoo! works. In building out all the components of YOS, the team is focused on implementing distributed systems that are highly scalable and performant so they can reliably serve hundreds of millions of Yahoo! users and developers every day. Via Yahoo

UK government goes to Tim Berners Lee to help them in their initiative to open up the government data.

OCLC Mashathon

OCLC brings library developer community together to create new tools on top of OCLC APIs

"This is such a great way to bring the library development community together," explained Roy Tennant, one of the founders of the OCLC Developer Network. "We are so pleased with the creativity of the implementations and expect the tools created these two days to continue delivering long-term value for libraries and library users around the world." Via OCLC


The above figure created by Tim McCormick in "A Web Services Taxonomy: not all about the data" should make us think of what we can do to move our products to the "high value transactional" quadrant. Opening up and creativity from the development community will be key elements of developing these high value transactional applications.

Now it's Facebook's turn to open up

It appears that Facebook will let developers to build services on top of its platform

"The announcement, expected Monday, means developers can build services that access the photos, videos, notes and comments users upload to Facebook, with users' permission. That's a big change for the social-networking site, which has exercised tight control over the look and feel of its service and how developers can interact with it." WSJ

What's your opening up strategy?

Photo Credit: Open on Flickr by Mag3737

Few quick links

Looking at News Content APIs; Opening up is key for distribution of content; personalizing recommendation, new head for Yahoo Application Group, and the need for author or reseacher identifier

World Bank releases Open APIs

and invites community to creats mashups and applications

"The World Bank has been collecting massive amounts of data, for the past 50+ years, and now possesses one of the richest repositories of information about economic development in the world. World Bank Open API is an initiative of the World Bank that opens the wealth of the World Bank's global economic data to the outside world, in a standard, easily accessible way. Open API allows third parties to develop mash-ups and applications with the World Bank data and easily create different kinds of interesting visualizations and insightful reports." via world bank

Remixing and Creativity (and APIs)

Ofir Kutiel gives a good example of how one can create something original by remixing "content"

New York Times, APIs and SOA

A good example of how Times is using their APi's internally





Note: updates, thanks to Richard Akerman reminding me the missing links

Open Publishing opens minds

Tim O'Reilly's insights on the beauty of "opening up" via Andrew Savikas


Tim O'Reilly makes the argument for Open Publishing @ TOC 2009 from Open Publishing Lab @ RIT on Vimeo.

Mashing up Science Amazon Way

Deepak announced Amazon's Amazon Public Data Sets program. This is another good initiative for "open data" and for scientists

Bringing Lenses to Search using Yahoo Boss

Yahoo Search team continues to rock. Here are few more sites powered by Yahoo Boss: getthepicture, delver, Techcrunch

I believe that Yahoo has one of the most creative search teams in the search industry and they have been executing what Jeff Weiner stated in 2007:

"Our goal is to tie these underlying stores of knowledge together wherever and whenever it might be useful for you. In other words, we want to leverage our assets to build the most relevant, comprehensive, dynamic, and open repository of knowledge and content on the Web. One of the things we’re most excited about is the concept of “open,” and all of the potential we have yet to tap by opening up some of the most trafficked pages on Yahoo.com to the highest quality publishers on the Web, regardless of their size."

Changing face of Elsevier

As Wouter posts opening up is important for us. I believe that this "change" will have a huge impact for "accelerating science" and "helping scientists do science better. That's one of the reasons that I am proud working for Elsevier and be part of a product development team that will launch some great solutions in the coming months.

Yahoo Boss and better search service for academic libraries

An opportunity for academic libraries to leverage Yahoo Boss. Meanwhile Microsoft moves along in their effort for "free tools and services to support the Scholarly Communications lifecycle"