Monthly Archives: April 2007

Another snippet from ChemBark some months ago but highly relevant News Story of 2006: The Rise of the Chemical Blogosphere I have no doubt that the chemical blogosphere is here to stay and adds important new directions. I said this … Continue reading →

I am trying to get my past blog-stuff sorted out – some of my unpublishined snippets may appear in random order. I had selected Chem-Bark’s post: Chemical Citizen of 2006: Wikipedia User “V8rik” where CB lauds the contributions from “V8rik”. … Continue reading →

Software development is hard. Tedious. Frustrating. It usually takes much longer than anyone, including the author, thinks. So what tools and philosophy are useful to the solo – or near-solo – Open Source programmer? Here are some thoughts which  you’re … Continue reading →

The C20th saw the rise and value of scientific data aggregators – organisation who extracted data from the literature, cleaned it, packaged it and offered it for re-use. In some cases they got grants to support this, but most moved … Continue reading →

We have been working on a general, fluid, concept which we labelled “World Wide Molecular Matrix” – starting about 2001. (We actually put in a grant application under that name to the then new UK eScience programme – it didn’t … Continue reading →

Having blogged about the excitement of automatic reading and semantic enhancement of chemical theses I come to the startk reality of PDF. “Turning PDF into XML is like turning a hamburger back into a cow” (anon). So I searched for … Continue reading →

Until the blog cruft disappears I’ll try to repost comments. Here’s one from Chrsi Swain From: Chris Swain Subject: Blog Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:22:22 +0100 Hi, Great to see you back! I tried to post this comment but … Continue reading →