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If you’re following the right people on Twitter you might notice a peculiar hashtag: #beyondthePDF. This refers to a workshop at UCSD, which has the goal to identify a set of requirements, and a group of willing participants to develop open source code to accelerate scientific knowledge sharing (H/T Martin Fenner).

Among the usual suspects attending are Cameron Neylon and Peter Murray-Rust. Apropos, I met Peter last autumn, when I was able to get him to talk a little bit about open data, the Panton Principles and how he got involved in it all.

Here’s the first of three videos, in which Peter—a small molecule crystallographer by background—says how it started and what the response has been.

…naturally putting the words ‘open’ and ‘data’ together

More next week.