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WWMM calculation of spectra (proposed)

Posted on October 11, 2007 by pm286

Jean-Claude Bradley has offered us the spectra that come out of his Open Notebook projects… Jean-Claude Bradley Says: October 11th, 2007 at 1:32 pm ePeter – it is great to see you contributing to open NMR data processing. For a … Continue reading →

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Optimal Calendarship

Posted on October 11, 2007 by pm286

Alma Swan – well known to Open Access, JISC, RIN, etc communities – has posted: An open access calendar, and a calendar for open access, 2008 07:20 11/10/2007, Alma Swan, OptimalScholarship Creative Commons (CC) is celebrating its 5th birthday. Lawrence … Continue reading →

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Open NoteBook Science, Chemspiderman, GIAO and HOSE. We write the final paper

Posted on October 11, 2007 by pm286

We posted yesterday about our proposed Open NoteBook approach to 13C chemical shifts from experiment and calculation and Chemspiderman has posted very helpful contributions, including offers of help. This is much appreciated and accepted. The main problem we have is … Continue reading →

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We start Open Notebook Science at UCC on calculating NMR

Posted on October 10, 2007 by pm286

We are starting an experiment on Open Notebook Science. See (Open Notebook Science Using Blogs and Wikis : Nature Precedings, Drexel CoAS E-Learning: Open Notebook Science, Useful Chemistry: Cameron Neylon on Open Notebook Science, Drexel CoAS talks mp3 podcast: Open … Continue reading →

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What are the shortest and longest known As-As bonds?

Posted on October 10, 2007 by pm286

How would you find the answer to this question? How long did it take you? How sure are you that your answer is correct? What would you do to check? Comments welcome.

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A sad day for ACS

Posted on October 10, 2007 by pm286

Peter Suber has relayed a message which has been widely posted. More on executive bonuses at the ACS This memo from “ACS Insider” has been sent directly to many librarians and university administrators, and to at least one public listserv, … Continue reading →

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Re-use: Price and permission barriers

Posted on October 10, 2007 by pm286

When scientists read publications they often want to re-use them. What do we mean by “re-use”? Isn’t reading good enough? No. Re-use means that they can take the information in the publication and, while preserving the provenance, use it for … Continue reading →

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Video of Paul Miller's talk at Unilever Centre

Posted on October 10, 2007 by pm286

Nico Adams has very kindly video’ed Paul Miller’s talk here and uploaded the result to Google. The original video is 15 GB so Nico has reduced it to 1 GB using iMovie. You can see the result on his blog: … Continue reading →

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My talk at Cambridge Network

Posted on October 9, 2007 by pm286

As I blogged I was invited to speak yesterday at Cambridge Network on “Cambridge ideas that change the world”. I’d originally given a title of “The Semantic Web” and thought I would say something about it that would entertain and … Continue reading →

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Paul Miller on the Web of Data

Posted on October 9, 2007 by pm286

Paul visited us today (Paul Miller speaking at UCC) and gave a beautiful presentation on the Web of Data. Literally beautiful. He had worked very hard on preparing it and it flowed imperceptibly from simple beginnings to a current conclusion. … Continue reading →

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