Monthly Archives: May 2007

Open Data At WWW 2007

Posted on May 6, 2007 by pm286

polemic level AMBER I am in Canada – can get internet but have some difficulty in sending email. This post is quite a good way of letting everyone in the world know where I am… I shall be talking on … Continue reading →

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Curating data on ChemSpider…should it be supported by the community?

Posted on May 5, 2007 by pm286

I’m replying to a reference from Chemspider to my blog. It’s titled: Curating data on ChemSpider…should it be supported by the community? Posted by: Antony Williams in Quality and Content I extract some of the material below, but the simple … Continue reading →

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Open Access and Fuzzy Access

Posted on May 5, 2007 by pm286

In reply to my request for lists of Open Molecules Dietrich Rordorf Says: May 4th, 2007 at 10:52 am eHave a look at MolBank: http://www.mdpi.org/molbank/ Molbank (ISSN 1422-8599, CODEN: MOLBAI) is fully open-access and publishes one-compound-per-paper short notes and communications … Continue reading →

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Chemical phraseology

Posted on May 3, 2007 by pm286

From the ChemBlog… Writing the intro for papers is silly May 03rd 2007 Posted to Sciency politics I’m starting to write my second paper for JOC, fresh off the heals of my recent JACs submission* (fingers crossed) and I’ve sort … Continue reading →

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ICD-10 – past and present

Posted on May 3, 2007 by pm286

I am really excited and pleased by Peter Suber’s latest post. WHO converts a disease database to a wiki. WHO adopts Wikipedia approach for key update, CBC News, May 2, 2007. Excerpt: If the collaborative wiki process works for compiling … Continue reading →

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Turning a PDF into a cow

Posted on May 3, 2007 by pm286

I have frequently quoted the maxim that turning PDF into XML is like turning a hamburger into a cow. But here is a printed PDF turned into a cow (in Denver airport). It’s called “Rhapsody in Moo” – you can … Continue reading →

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Tagging molecules

Posted on May 3, 2007 by pm286

Another of last night’s ideas that I have been beaten to – that’s the power of the blogosphere! Nick Day and I are trying to find a social mechanism for commenting on data – specifically his CrystalEye collection of 60 … Continue reading →

Posted in chemistry, semanticWeb | 3 Comments

Who's going to FOO 2007?

Posted on May 3, 2007 by pm286

I was about to post about an idea – “Who is going to W3C2007, Xtech2007 …”, when Jean-Claude Bradley beat me to it. Going to Science Foo Camp I just got an invitation to attend Science Foo Camp in August … Continue reading →

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experiment and theory – the liberation of data and source

Posted on May 3, 2007 by pm286

Antony Williams on the ChemSpider blog has paid tribute to NMRShiftDB. I have copied this in full and comment later on how theory and experiment test each other: Open Source Data, Testing Quality and Returning Value – Interactions with NMRSHIFTDB … Continue reading →

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Chemical Blogosphere

Posted on May 2, 2007 by pm286

For those who denigrate the blogosphere I reply that the chemical blogosphere is an excellent example of a coherent, productive, communal social organism. The members find their ecological niche, and where necessary feed off each others’ electronic secretions. ChemBark (Paul) … Continue reading →

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