Monthly Archives: April 2009

ICE-cold in Toowoomba

Posted on April 20, 2009 by pm286

I am here for all too short a time working with Peter Sefton and colleages on a number of collaborations on authoring and publishing tools. Peter runs the  Australian Digital Futures Institute at the University of Southern Queensland in Toowoomba … Continue reading →

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Semantic authoring

Posted on April 20, 2009 by pm286

An interesting post from Duncan Hull  The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Google about the challenges of a semantic web of data. Since I am talking on the Chemical Semantic Web at Bio-IT World Conference & Expo 2009 it has a lot to … Continue reading →

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Crystal26 – what I said – the Crystallographic Semantic Web

Posted on April 16, 2009 by pm286

As usual I didn’t know in detail what I would say at Crystal26 – it depends on who is present, what has just been said, how grateful I am to the organizers (10/10). I have an overview page (in HTML) … Continue reading →

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Crystal26/SCANZ at Barossa

Posted on April 16, 2009 by pm286

I’ve immersed myself for the last 2 days in the Australia/NZ crystallography meeting – about 100 scientists – some old acquaintances. It’s been wonderful. Some of the imaging and related techniques have been awesome – instrumentation has moved on so … Continue reading →

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Henry Rzepa's blog

Posted on April 14, 2009 by pm286

Henry and I have worked together more many years – today he mailed me about the latest entry in his blog. He’s wondering whether blogs are a way of recording scientific ideas – which used to be published in letters. … Continue reading →

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Thoughts about DCC and USQ

Posted on April 13, 2009 by pm286

Having moved computers one of the things that got lost was a list of feeds so I am catching up with some of the ones I used to read. I came across Chris Rusbridge’s Digital Curation Blog which is essential … Continue reading →

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Conspiracy and chemistry and an invitation to lunch

Posted on April 10, 2009 by pm286

Antony Williams (Chemspider) and Stuart Cantrill (Nature) have recently blogged about what the blogosphere is seeing as censorship on the Web by the American Chemical Society. This is a bold and serious claim and needs some background. The facts,  from … Continue reading →

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Blogging for an eScientist – more thoughts

Posted on April 10, 2009 by pm286

It is often exciting and rewarding when someone from outside regular contributors comments so I’ll reply to  Jean Calvin (blog: Post Tenebras Lux) Submitted on 2009/04/10 at 9:44am Good timing Peter! I started off a new blog recently and have … Continue reading →

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Open Notebook Ontology development

Posted on April 10, 2009 by pm286

One of the challenging aspects of ontology development is that in the early stages there are likely to be major collisions of orientation, and chemistry is no exception. So we need to prepare for some hard work addressing these. Traditionally … Continue reading →

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CML – "can your system encode these semantics"

Posted on April 9, 2009 by pm286

Rich Apodaca (Bluer Obelisk) frequently asks “Can your chemoinformatics tool do this?” and has asked how CML represents various systems: Submitted on 2009/04/05 at 12:04am Peter, I would gladly drop FlexMol and enthusiastically support any robust system that enabled me … Continue reading →

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