For some time I have been stealing an hour here and there for the rrdf package for R. This package is based on Apache Jena and allows reading and writing of RDF triples, as well as doing local and remote SPARQL querying. BTW, rrdf is not only R package to provide SPARQL functionality, and another package will be demoed at SWAT4LS.

It took me some time to get around to it, but I finally set up a vignette with Sweave for this package, but here it is, explaining some basic functionality of the package, just in time for #swat4ls:



So, with a week or so, I used <iframe> in the blog a few times now. The above one is being served by Google Drive.
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Hi all, as posted about a year ago, I moved this blog to a different domain and different platform. Noting that I still have many followers on this domain (and not on my new domain, including over 300 on Feedly.com along).
This is my last post on blogger.com. At least, that is the plan. It has been a great 18 years. I like to thank the owners of blogger.com and Google later for providing this service.
Some days ago, I started added boiling points to Wikidata, referenced from Basic Laboratory and Industrial Chemicals (wikidata:Q22236188), David R. Lide's 'a CRC quick reference handbook' from 1993 (well, the edition I have).
The role of a university is manifold. Being a place where people can find knowledge and the track record how that knowledge was reached is often seen as part of that. Over the past decades universities outsources this role, for example to publishers.
I am pleased to learn that the Dutch Universities start looking at rankings of a more scientific way. It is long overdue that we take scientific peer review of the indicators used in those rankings seriously, instead of hiding beyond fud around the decline of quality of research.
When last week in a large (and relevant) Dutch research event ChatGPT came up, and that this was going to change the world. Even the critiques came up, but were effectively disregarded with "these methods get better very quickly". This is not untrue, but not really true either.
I think that if you want to make your knowledge FAIR, you should use an open license and RDF. Simple. Now, not everything is knowledge. A lot of data is, but a lot more is not, think raw data. Using RDF to explain a protein sequence is still something that makes me feel uneasy.
Some years ago we started the ELIXIR Toxicology Community. It has been an interesting journey, partly covered in this whitepaper). We started with interaction we had in several projects already, but particularly the potential. I see this.
This week a colleague whom I highly respect asked me if I was already so busy (regularly close to overworked), why did I give talks and often free up my time for that. A valid question. The Drew-reaction here is to say "it is part of scientific communication and dissemination".
I actually got instructions at some point in the past too, forgot about it, and then Daniel reminded me about it:

The trick at @ZENODO_ORG is to type to type "cc0-1.0".

I keep forgetting this too and then go back to emails on the matter. Would be great if this could be made more user friendly.
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