In our latest podcast I talk to Timo Hannay, Publishing Director for nature.com at the Nature Publishing Group. We discuss some of the activities underway across Nature properties to increase audience participation and to raise visibility and use of the data that lie behind so many scholarly papers today.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Amazon Public Data Sets
• arxiv.org
• Creative Commons
• Digging into Data Challenge
• Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
• Dublin Core
• Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP)
• Imperial College
• Molecular Systems Biology
• Nature podcast
• Nature Publishing Group
• Nature Precedings
• OpenID
• Open Text Mining Interface
• Tim O’Reilly
• Oxford University
• Papers for OS X
• Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata (PRISM)

This conversation was recorded from a London hotel room on Tuesday 3 February 2009. Unanticipated network problems prevented the call being recorded as I usually do, and I owe my thanks to Charlotte Stoddart at Nature who stepped in and recorded the conversation from their podcast studio. My slightly tinny and distant voice is the fault of the hotel telephone system I ended up having to use…

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