Monthly Archives: April 2007

David Bradley has assured me he will take my concerns back to the ChemSpider people. This doesn’t remove them, and I’ll explain why. There is no Open gold standard for chemical information. That’s a historical fact and we have to … Continue reading →

I had a really enjoyable day at Colorado State University yesterday – making a videocast and then giving a hyperpresentation which ranged from repositories to the growing destructive power of organised publishing. At drinks afterwards I made the usual suggestion … Continue reading →

Jean-Claude has started his Open Chemistry experiment (in both senses – chemistry and Open). He will record everything on the Wiki and then – presumably when there is some publishable “golden moment” send the manuscript off. I am floating the … Continue reading →

David Bradley alerted me to Chemspider, an engine which scrapes the web for information on chemical compound information and calculates properties. I blogged yesterday about what it did for sodium chloride. I am slightly sorry to do this as I … Continue reading →

David Bradley wrote: Peter, great to see that WWMM is starting to gain some momentum. I certainly think there are various behavioural properties of chemists that have held many back from taking part in blogs and wikis and general web … Continue reading →

Have had great time today at Colorado State University talking to the Library and Information Scientists. Lost of ideas, especially on the role and construction of Institutional Repositories. I am still revising my views about this and feel that the … Continue reading →

Here’s something that makes me feel pleased: Jean-Claude Bradley posts: NCI – UsefulChem Link   Earlier this week, I was contacted by Daniel Zaharevitz, Chief of the Information Technology Branch of the Developmental Therapeutics Program at the National Cancer Institute. … Continue reading →

From Peter Suber’s blog: Are OA repositories adequate for long-term preservation? Peter B. Hirtle, Copyright Keeps Open Archives and Digital Preservation Separate, RLG DigiNews, April 15, 2007.  Sadly, this is the last installment of the FAQ column in the final … Continue reading →

At the JISC/NSF meeting we had a very compelling example of why it is important to preserve data – both “scientific” and “humanities”. In 1994 Pang, You and Chu reported that ancient Chinese records could be used to calculate the … Continue reading →

Egon Willighagen posts: Clustering web search results The Dutch Intermediair magazine of this week had a letter sent by a reader introducing Clusty, a web search engine that clusters the results. It does a pretty good job for ‘egon willighagen‘: … Continue reading →