{"id":11389,"date":"2013-10-11T15:43:18","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T14:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ch.imperial.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=11389"},"modified":"2013-10-11T15:43:18","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T14:43:18","slug":"internet-archaeology-blasts-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=11389","title":{"rendered":"Internet Archaeology: Blasts from the past."},"content":{"rendered":"
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In 1993-1994, when the Web (synonymous in most minds now with the Internet) was still young, the pace of progress was so rapid that some wag worked out that one “web-year<\/em>” was like a dog-year, worth about 7 years of normal human time. So in this respect, 1994 is now some 133 web-years ago. Long enough for an archaeological excavation.<\/p>\n

And so it was that I came across two Web-pages that have suddenly acquired a topical significance:<\/p>\n

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  1. http:\/\/www.ariadne.ac.uk\/issue1\/clic<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. http:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/13614579509516846<\/a>[1]<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Their topicality in part arises from e.g. http:\/\/www.rsc.org\/AboutUs\/News\/PressReleases\/2013\/RSC-announces-chemical-sciences-repository.asp<\/a>\u00a0where the RSC seeks community support to help curate the data we as scientists produce.<\/p>\n

    Some of my recent posts (this one on dual-publisher models<\/a>\u00a0and this one on publishing procedures<\/a>) also pertain to this and Peter Murray-Rust is constantly blogging on the topic (see this<\/a> for the latest).<\/p>\n

    Perhaps 2013 will indeed be the year of data!\u00a0<\/p>\n

    References<\/h2>\n
    1. D. James, B.J. Whitaker, C. Hildyard, H.S. Rzepa, O. Casher, J.M. Goodman, D. Riddick, and P. Murray\u2010Rust, \"The case for content integrity in electronic chemistry journals: The CLIC project\", New Review of Information Networking<\/i>, vol. 1, pp. 61-69, 1995. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/13614579509516846<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<\/div> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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