Monthly Archives: March 2011

#pantonprinciples   I am using the ACS session on Open data as an opportunity to create principles that allow textmining in science. With Jenny Molloy and Graham Steel we are creating a draft Panton Paper, on an Etherpad at: http://okfnpad.org/PPDataTextMining … Continue reading →

Robert Belford invited me to present at the ACS “Online resources for Chemical Education” on Monday 2011-03-28 (tomorrow). I’m meeting Robert soon at the CHED reception but here’s what I plan to say and the resources. I may change things … Continue reading →

#quixotechem #greenchain #scholarlyhtml #oscar4 #pantonprinciples Am attending the 241st National Meeting of the ACS at Anaheim (read Disney). In case you want me I am at the Sheraton Park. I have a hectic program being author of 6 presentations and … Continue reading →

Many scientists have to work with data produced by programs written in the era of FORTRAN IV which produces a mindset of punched cards for input and lineprinter for output. Both of these were designed primarily for humans – the … Continue reading →

  Peter Sefton (PT) is leaving Toowoomba – http://ptsefton.com/2011/03/24/onwards.htm. We talked about it while he was here but the news was only public this week. PT has been part of our past and will be part of our future – … Continue reading →

#quixotechem #cmlcomp We have had a fantastic two days at Daresbury developing a prototype of a repository system for computational chemistry. Although computational chemistry is a major scientific discipline, supporting bioscience, materials, chemical reactions, energy, etc. it consists of isolated … Continue reading →

#scholarlyhtml We’ve had a great hackfest – extended over 10 days – working towards scholarly HTML. The idea is simple – we should be using HTML as the main substrate for exchanging information in areas of scholarship, research, education and … Continue reading →

There has been a lot of interest in #scholarlyhtml and Peter Sefton has blogged latest thoughts yesterday: http://ptsefton.com/2011/03/18/scholarly-html-fraglets-of-progress.htm The techniques we’re documenting have been drawn from lots of previous work, … I don’t think we’re duplicating work but trying to … Continue reading →

#scholarlyhtml Our extended hackfest over the last 3 days has made huge progress towards Scholarly HTML. We will be posting reports on #beyondthepdf lists and also continuously and continually updating Etherpads, wikis, code pages, etc. Our current starting place is … Continue reading →

Euan has commented on my enquiry to Mendely about their “Open data”. He raises important valid points  Euan says: March 12, 2011 at 1:08 am  (Edit) IANAL, but the data includes (or did last time I checked) many, many abstracts … Continue reading →