Author Archives: pm286

Comments on comments and agents and eyeballs

Posted on October 1, 2007 by pm286

One of the difficult features of blogs is how to manage comments. On this blog these are relatively infrequent, wile on – say –ChemBark, TotallySynthetic.com or The Chem Blog some articles generate over 100 replies. I got into the habit … Continue reading →

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Eyeballs from the blogosphere

Posted on October 1, 2007 by pm286

Fantastic! The blogosphere has already responded to our request for accounts of data quality enhancement. Egon Willighagen Says: October 1st, 2007 at 8:18 am ePeter, I’ve placed some pointer to past blog items from my blog that I feel relevant … Continue reading →

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Guerilla OA activity

Posted on October 1, 2007 by pm286

Blogged by Peter Suber: Graham Steele, Conference Report, McBlawg, September 29, 2007.  Excerpt: Here is a report in relation to my attendance of NeuroPrion 2007 26th – 28th September, Edinburgh, Scotland…. Given the approximate number (~ 800) [of attendees], clearly, … Continue reading →

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NSF/JISC meeting on eScience/cyberinfrastructure

Posted on September 30, 2007 by pm286

I was privileged to be at a meeting between JISC (UK) and NSF (US). Every paragraph of the report is worth reading – I quote a few… William Y. Arms and Ronald L. Larsen, The Future of Scholarly Communication: Building … Continue reading →

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Open grant writing. Can the Chemical Blogosphere help with "Agents and Eyeballs"

Posted on September 30, 2007 by pm286

In the current spirit of Openness I’m appealing to the chemical blogosphere for help. Jim Downing and I are writing a grant proposal for UK’s JISC : supporting education and research – which supports digital libraries, repositories, eScience/cyberinfrastructure, collaborative working, … Continue reading →

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Volunteers: does the computer experience translate to chemistry?

Posted on September 30, 2007 by pm286

One of the spinoffs of having been to scifoo is that I skim over 50+posts / day from the blogs that participants run. Some are multi-author blogs:  Here’s Andy Oram on Tim O’Reilly’s blog, talking about what makes volunteer documenters … Continue reading →

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Open Access at Abbey Square

Posted on September 29, 2007 by pm286

Yesterday Jim Downing, Nick Day and I were the guests of Peter Strickland and Brian McMahon at the International Union of Crystallography in their gorgeous offices at Abbey Square, Chester UK . The IUCr is a member of ICSU – … Continue reading →

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Four theses and a repository

Posted on September 28, 2007 by pm286

I’ve been advocating that all theses should be deposited in institutional repositories under CC-BY licences, and here’s an interlude with 4 I have personal knowledge of. I’m keeping the authors secret, although those in the know will identify some. ONE … Continue reading →

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Chemical Speeddrawing

Posted on September 28, 2007 by pm286

There used to be an advert on the London Tube advertising “Speedwriting” (something like “f u cn rd ths u cn gt a gd jb”. What about speed-drawing of chemical structures? Here’s Liquid Carbon: Finally, I’d like to offer a … Continue reading →

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The Obelisk SMILES

Posted on September 28, 2007 by pm286

We are delighted that Craig James has suggested making the molecular format SMILES an Open activity. Egin Willighagen writes: SMILES to become an Open Standard 08:03 28/09/2007, Egon Willighagen, Craig James wants to make SMILES an open standard, and this … Continue reading →

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