Tag Archives: trust

Elsevier Oopsie

Elsevier published 6 fake journals! (via Open Access News). See also Peter Murray-Rust on Trust in scientific publishing.

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Family trees, Gedcom::FOAF in CPAN, and provenance

Every wondered who the mother(s) of Adam and Eve’s grand-children were? Me too. But don’t expect SPARQL or the Semantic Web to answer that one! Meanwhile, …

You might nevetheless care to try the Gedcom::FOAF CPAN module from Brian Cassidy. It can read Gedcom, a popular ‘family history’ file format, and turn it into RDF (using [...]

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