Monthly Archives: December 2007

Tools, Frameworks and Applications

Posted on December 15, 2007 by pm286

I lamented the lack of public interest shown by the pharma companies in Open Source software and Geoff Hutchison commented: When the Blue Obelisk met in San Francisco, we all heard from a pharma rep [PMR: was there a pharma … Continue reading →

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Why oh why oh why….? Digital uncuration

Posted on December 15, 2007 by pm286

var imagebase=’file://C:/Program Files/FeedReader30/’; My colleague Nico Adams has written at great and useful length (Why oh why oh why….? ) about the appalling state of data capture, dissemination, preservation and curation.  He describes how he found some very valuable data … Continue reading →

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The unacceptable state of Chemoinformatics

Posted on December 15, 2007 by pm286

Egon Willighagen has cricitized a numner of aspects of chemoinformatics: (I don’t blame Individuals in Commercial Chemoinformatics). This post was sparked off by an announcement that company A had agreed with company B that A would use B’s software. This … Continue reading →

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HypoScience

Posted on December 14, 2007 by pm286

I have blogged earlier (cyberscience: Changing the business model for access to data) on the lack of access to data in cyberscience – there may be a data deluge in some areas but there is a drought in many others. … Continue reading →

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Digital CurationDay – end

Posted on December 14, 2007 by pm286

The DCC finished with the customary summing up – state-of-the… – presentation by Cliff Lynch. Cliff’s talks are always entertaining – no visuals so you actually have to listen to the words. [(That’s not a bad thing. I’m thinking of … Continue reading →

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Digital Curation Day 2 – Jane Kwok and SCOPE

Posted on December 14, 2007 by pm286

For me the highlight of the late morning session was Jane Hunter and colleagues (Queensland) describing their SCOPE system of managing Compound Document Objects (CDO’s). Jane is a materials scientist turned informaticist (hope that’s fair) and we’d already been partners … Continue reading →

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Digital Curation day 2 – Carole on workflows

Posted on December 13, 2007 by pm286

There is a definitely an air of optimism in the conference – we know the taks are hard and very very diverse but it’s clear that many of them are understood.  The morning plenary was Carole Goble, Manchester – who … Continue reading →

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SPECTRa @ UIUC

Posted on December 13, 2007 by pm286

Last spring I visited Illinois (UIUC) and presented the SPECTRa tools. Scott Wilson who runs the crystallographic facility and many of the LIS community were keen to see how it could be used for capturing their crystallography. Yesterday I met … Continue reading →

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Microsoft eChemistry Project and molecular repositories

Posted on December 13, 2007 by pm286

Some of you may have picked up from – e.g. the Open Grid Forum – that Microsoft (Tony Hey, Lee Dirks, Savas Parastatidis) have been collaborating with Carl Lagoze (Cornell) and Herbert van de Sompel (LANL) on bringing together Chemistry … Continue reading →

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Digital Curation Conference Day 1

Posted on December 13, 2007 by pm286

I can’t actually connect to the Internet during the sessions so have made some notes and edited them later. I suspect this is rather patchy. Overall impressions – optimistic spirit with some speakers being very adventurous about what we can … Continue reading →

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