Monthly Archives: October 2010

I wrote a rant about PDF destroying scientific information (it keeps me sane). PDF is a hamburger. Power corrupts and Powerpoint corrupts absolutely. But they aren’t the only ways. The third most common method of textual destruction of science is … Continue reading →

#jiscxyz #okfn #quixotechem I’m off to #JISCMRD (Managing Research Data) to hear about the new round of projects including our own JISCXYZ. Ours concentrates on the publication of data and we are working with publishers to save and validate data … Continue reading →

#quixotechem #okfn For the last month we have been developing an Open, distributed, automated Knowledgebase for computational chemistry. Millions of valuable data files are created each year – almost none are published. Yet they are amongst the best, the most … Continue reading →

#jiscopenbib #okfn This is a rapid post to launch our next virtual collaborative Open Liberation project. (I’m full up with other things over the next two days). Simply: On November 11th Cameron Neylon and I will be presenting at RLUK … Continue reading →

#quixotechem #okfn The Sprint methodology for software is a popular way of developing flexible software quickly and well . A Scrum is a similar approach, with colourful team roles such as chickens and pigs: All roles fall into two distinct … Continue reading →

The following examples may (or may not) be helpful in guiding readers towards determining the relationship between the molecules in http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=2643   (A)The first six structures returned in a search for “staurosporine” in Pubchem. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pccompound&term=staurosporine ) (B) and  

#jiscopenbib #okfn #rluk2010 #edinbib2010 WARNING. READING THIS POST MIGHT COMMIT YOU TO DOING SOMETHING. I have been invited to run a session at the RLUK’s (Research Libraries UK) conference in 2010 (http://www.rluk.ac.uk/node/597 ). It’s in Edinburgh , Scotland, which is … Continue reading →

We had a welcoming session last week – see Egon Willighagen’s blog http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/2010/10/are-these-organic-molecules-same.html where I casually asked what the relationship is between the following two molecules (I deprecate the use of the hatch in these pictures but that’s irrelevant here) … Continue reading →

#jiscopenbib #okfn The Open Knowledge Foundation has been working in conjunction with JISC to define various components of Open Scholarship, and now we have come to an important milestone for Open Bibliography. The OKF has run an Open Bibliography list … Continue reading →

#jiscopenbib #okfn I came back from the British Library and Imperial War Museum (I’ll tell you why later) on Thursday on the 1615. One of the privilege of the 1615 is that if you get there after 1605 you have … Continue reading →