Monthly Archives: November 2006

Digital Curation 2006 in Glasgow

Posted on November 20, 2006 by pm286

I am going to the 2nd International Digital Curation Conference Digital Data Curation in Practice 21-22 November 2006 Hilton Glasgow Hotel, Glasgow which will address different aspects of the curation lifecycle including managing repositories, educating data scientists and understanding the … Continue reading →

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Community peer-review? In chemistry???

Posted on November 19, 2006 by pm286

Why do scientists publish in scientific journals? Are they still necessary? This has been debated intensely in recent years, but the chemical blogosphere gives a recent twist to the subject. Even if you aren’t a chemist you should be able … Continue reading →

Posted in "virtual communities", chemistry, open issues | 7 Comments

Premature Optimization

Posted on November 19, 2006 by pm286

For many years I have believed (and still believe) in the following (quoted in Wikipedia) : Tony Hoare first said, and Donald Knuth famously repeated, “Premature optimization is the root of all evil.” It is important to have sound algorithms … Continue reading →

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Help! Where's the old Tenderbutton

Posted on November 19, 2006 by pm286

I have enthused about Dylan’s chemistry blog, Tenderbutton. Unfortunately for us, he closed down about a month ago. But I thought I would always be able to read the archives – they are wonderful record of chemistry as it happens … Continue reading →

Posted in chemistry, open issues | 7 Comments

The War on Error

Posted on November 18, 2006 by pm286

There’s been a lot of  excitement over Pete Lacey’s The S stands for Simple. This Socratic dialogue, which I blogged yesterday has shown the futility of the overengineered madness from the W3C committees. There are other similar postings, summarised in … Continue reading →

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SOAP of the evening, beau…tiful SOAP

Posted on November 17, 2006 by pm286

There are simple ways to do things on the web, and there are Simple ways. Jonathan Robie, a long-time member of XML-DEV found this… From: Jonathan Robie To: “xml- >> ‘XML Developers List’” Subject: [xml-dev] The S stands for Simple … Continue reading →

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Information Barter

Posted on November 17, 2006 by pm286

A comment to my post Negotiating Open Access – a mutual success resonates with me: # Rupak Chakravarty Says: November 17th, 2006 at 6:03 am e I believe, If we really want to knowledge driven open society, where business models … Continue reading →

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(Chemical) Images in blogs

Posted on November 15, 2006 by pm286

I am following up a post where I suggested we could provide a service for drawing molecules in blogs. One problem is how to incorporate them into the post. (I’m still working on this post, so don’t believe it all) … Continue reading →

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God's golf club

Posted on November 15, 2006 by pm286

The golf club problem was a throwaway – I didn’t expect it to have a long duration. I can’t resist the following plea and will give a formal answer (there is a much simpler way of doing it) Russ Says: … Continue reading →

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Semantic Chemistry in Wikis and Blogs – a proposal

Posted on November 14, 2006 by pm286

Joerg Wegner posts (Blogging chemistry means not blogging minable data) : As posted by Peter more and more chemists are blogging. And I would appreciate if those blogs would contain more chemical minable information. I think especially Rich and Egon … Continue reading →

Posted in "virtual communities", chemistry | 5 Comments