Monthly Archives: August 2011

This is the text of a letter I have sent to Dr Colin Groom, Director of the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre. For context, read my blog posts (/pmr/ ) over the last 4 days. “sourceCIFs” are raw data created as … Continue reading →

I have had a really useful suggestion about how to make data deposited with the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) Open. The Hargreaves report has recommended that text- and data-mining of the scientific literature should be allowed and the government … Continue reading →

In a previous post I showed a letter form Colin Groom of the CCDC indicating reasons why the CCDC could not make its deposited crystallographic data (source CIFS) Open /pmr/2011/08/28/iucr2011-reply-from-ccdc-on-restrictions-on-redistributing-cifs/ This is disappointing because otherwise we would be able to … Continue reading →

I wrote to Colin Groom of the CCDC requesting the release of authors’ raw CIFs (supporting information) into the public domain. I have now had a reply which I publish below. This will alter what I say at my presentation … Continue reading →

I shall be explaining (very rapidly) the role of Open, Closed, text and data in my talk on Open Crystallography. I shall use a series of diagrams with consistent semiotics. Before I start I want to make it clear that … Continue reading →

I am speaking on 2011-08-29 on new methods of publishing crystallography including data. I shall prepare my talk as a series of blog posts, not necessarily in the order that they are presented at the meeting. I am arguing that … Continue reading →

I am giving an invited talk on Monday 2011-08-29 at the IUCr (http://www.iucr2011madrid.es/index.php/program/scientific-program ) about our Crystaleye system and more generally about new approaches to publishing science. I’ll be blogging a lot over the next 2 days and get all … Continue reading →

I am talking an a few minutes to a group of chemists, other scientists, computational scientists, informatics specialist, IR managers, etc. in ZCAM (computational chemistry) in Zaragoza. This is a very exciting project and we hope to not only talk, … Continue reading →

I am defining DataSharers as an ecology of places to make digital stuff available for sharing. I am still searching for a good term. Digisharer? Digital Sharer? I originally explored this list for repositories so the criteria are slightly different. … Continue reading →

Gigascience tweeted that they were studying my suggested principles for data repositories – which I shall now amend to DataSharers. I’d heard vaguely about GigaScience on the blogosphere but not paid huge attention as their datasets are large and I … Continue reading →