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# Nature technology
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/nature-technology/
- Published: 2005-10-25T23:23:48.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-28T21:02:03.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Collections, Research ∕ Learning, Systems

![nature.png](https://www.lorcandempsey.net/content/images/wordpress/lorcan/nature.png)There is an interesting presentation \[[ppt](https://db.cs.berkeley.edu/dblunch-fa2005/timo.ppt?ref=lorcandempsey.net)\] by Timo Hannay of Nature Publishing Group on the [UC Berkeley Database Group Seminar](https://db.cs.berkeley.edu/dblunch.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net#list) pages.  
This shows how a major publisher is thinking about what it means to be a service in a network environment. It discusses how they are looking at structure and interaction as integral parts of their resources, and also covers their innovations with tagging and social bookmarking. A major focus is making data available in usable ways within articles.  
(I was reminded of the coinage *excitable*: increasingly we will want some classes of resource to be both citable and executable.)  
Via Peter Brantley.