Yearly Archives: 2008

I have agreed to review the CrystalEye data in Chemspider and before reading this post you should read the background carefully ( CrystalEye and Chemspider). The main points are that Crystaleye was not designed to be redistributable and that the … Continue reading →

Chemspider (Antony Williams) has asked on his blog for feedback on CrystalEye and shall respond in some detail. I shall try to exclude any personal judgment and not make statements about the value of the process. In essence it will … Continue reading →

An important set of papers on Open Data and science: The June issue of the Journal of Science Communication is now available (Peter Suber) . OA-related articles: Alessandro Delfanti, Collaborative Web between open and closed science Bora Zivkovic, The future … Continue reading →

I shall be writing a number of posts about (chemical) crystallography – which may be of wider interest to those interested in data quality assessment, robotic harvesting, robotic calculation, hyperlinking, repositories and the free access to scientific data. I’ll start … Continue reading →

I have been off air for a week part of which is because we have been concentrating on crystallography. The next few posts will cover various aspects of this subject – but there are many which are general enough that … Continue reading →

Two things from today – a presentation by one of my colleagues (revealed later) on “Naming things” – or a similar title – which isn’t yet public and they’ll be giving at a meeting next week. I won’t give it … Continue reading →

Antony Williams, Rich Apodaca and I have been having a debate on our blogs about how to identify chemicals (I choose this word so as not to be too specific) to a machine. Antony has a long and detailed response … Continue reading →

A few days ago I promise d to respond to Antony Williams’ post on associating chemical names with structures. I wrote: There is no “right structure (sic)” for a compound. There are structures which have a very high probability of … Continue reading →

A very thoughtful post by Cameron Neylon about a very thoughtful talk by Andy Powell about why institutional repositories don’t work and in their current form won’t work. I’ll post snippets and comment: The trouble with institutional repositories 20:52 10/06/2008, … Continue reading →