In our latest Talking with Talis podcast, I talk with Professor Peter Murray-Rust of the Unilever Centre for Molecular Sciences Informatics at the University of Cambridge.

In a wide-ranging conversation, we look at the changing nature of academic publishing, the importance of primary data to the process, and the remarkable potential of the Semantic Web in both streamlining and enriching the endeavour.

Listen Now | Download MP3 [70 mins, 48 Mb]

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Artistic License
• Bioinformatics
• Biomed Central
• Cancer Research UK
• Chemistry Central
• Creative Commons‘ Attribution License
• dbpedia
• GNU GPL License
• Journal of the American Chemical Society
• JUMBO
• UK Medical Research Council (MRC)
• Peter Murray-Rust’s blog
• Nature
• UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
• Open Access on Wikipedia
• Open Data panel at WWW2007
• Open Data on Wikipedia
• OpenID
• OpenLink’s Virtuoso
• PLoS ONE
• Science
• Science and Technology Committee of the House of Commons report, Scientific Publications: Free for All?, plus documented responses in 2004 and 2005.
• Science Commons
• SPECTRa-T
• vCard
• The Wellcome Trust
• Wikipedia

This conversation was conducted as a SkypeOut call on Thursday 31 May, recorded with Ecamm Network‘s Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband and Audacity.

The picture of Peter Murray-Rust was taken by Gavin Bell, and is shared on Flickr under a Creative Commons License.

For further Talking with Talis podcasts on the emerging Web of Data, see here.

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