[DIYbio] Re: As Journal Boycott Grows, Elsevier Defends Its Practices

lol, 12M of tagging - they should look into semantic search - for 10k
you could pay a (as in one) marginally above average developer to code
out a semantic tagging/footprinting/search algorithm.

On Feb 3, 10:37 am, Bryan Bishop <kanz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Bryan Bishop <kanz...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > That is why her company offers a variety of packages and pricing schemes to
> > libraries, and negotiates discounts based on institution size, type, and
>
> That's a common business trick-- even Oracle does it. On a $12M product,
> maybe you'll get a $2M discount. That doesn't excuse the other $10M for
> hosting files on a server..
>
> > "And we invest a lot in infrastructure, the tags and metadata attached to
> > each article that makes it discoverable by other researchers through search
> > engines, and that links papers together through citations and subject
> > matter.
> > All of that has changed the way research is done today and makes it more
> > efficient. That's the added value that we bring."
>
> Ah, so it's tagging.... right... got it. *ahem*
>
> - Bryanhttp://heybryan.org/
> 1 512 203 0507

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