Monthly Archives: December 2007

Digital Curation Conference (DCC) Washington

Posted on December 11, 2007 by pm286

I’m in Washington for a JISC NSF meeting on Friday. Originally I thought I would have to have missed the Digital Curation Conference but due to a change of plans am now able to attend (Wed and Thursday). Since I … Continue reading →

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Scope for SCOAP

Posted on December 10, 2007 by pm286

From Peter Suber: SCOAP3 FAQ for US libraries : CERN‘s SCOAP3 project has created an FAQ for U.S. Libraries. Excerpt:   What is SCOAP3 and what does it have to do with me? SCOAP3 is the Sponsoring Consortium for Open … Continue reading →

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What is data deposition?

Posted on December 9, 2007 by pm286

 Chemspider raises an important and valuable issue. How is data reposited? ChemSpiderMan Says: Peter, as you saw from my other posts at http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=854 I have followed the SPECTRa project with interest and read the “final report” recently.BAsed on your comment … Continue reading →

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Capturing SPECTRa

Posted on December 9, 2007 by pm286

Jean-Claude Bradley has blogged  JSpecView Article on Chemistry Central Robert Lancashire has just published an article in Chemistry Central Journal: The JSpecView Project: an Open Source Java viewer and converter for JCAMP-DX, and XML spectral data files Our lab has … Continue reading →

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Ontologies in Physics and Chemistry

Posted on December 9, 2007 by pm286

My colleague Nico Adams has just posted on ontologies (Ontologies are overrated?!?) Here’s a video by the indefatigable Michael Wesch and done in his inimitable style, arguing that maybe ontologies are not needed anymore and that the shelf is obsolete … Continue reading →

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Christoph Steinbeck moves to European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI)

Posted on December 9, 2007 by pm286

I’d known about this for a few days and am delighted it’s now public: I’m very delighted to announce my move to the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) in Hinxton near Cambridge, UK, at the beginning of 2008. At EBI, I … Continue reading →

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Open NMR – again. Why we do it

Posted on December 7, 2007 by pm286

 Chemspider (who has been doing some useful things recently with making data available and on which I shall comment separately) criticizes our work on NMR prediction by GIAO methods, and says he doesn’t “get it”. So I will continue to … Continue reading →

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More on the state of OA in chemistry

Posted on December 6, 2007 by pm286

Although I have already blogged Rebeeca Trager’s article it’s worth reading Peter Suber’s comments on it.  More on the state of OA in chemistry He uses facts and analysis precisely to take apart the various arguments of the publishers.  

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Talks at Berlin5 on Open Access

Posted on December 6, 2007 by pm286

  Antonella De Robbio has very kindly made available the talks ate Berlin 5 Open Access : From Practice to Impact : Consequences of Knowledge Dissemination 19 – 21 September, 2007 They can be viewed starting from the Conference website … Continue reading →

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Open Access – Chemistry World reviews the dilemma

Posted on December 6, 2007 by pm286

In this month’s Chemistry World (a magazine from the Royal Society of Chemistry) there is an important article by Rebecca Trager (US) reviewing the increasing fission within the chemistry publishing community: Chemistry’s open access dilemma   This was a commissioned … Continue reading →

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